Deception in the Garden of Eden.

We often hear, read and make our own conclusion that Eve was deceived. By the serpent. Even Paul declares such to young Timothy “And it was not Adam who was deceived by satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.” (1 Timothy 2:14 NLT) However, today when we think, deceived we think of blatant ‘get in your face’ and tell you outright lies in order to get you to think or do differently. Yet this is not what I see in the Genesis story – although often we were taught this in flannelgraph story time. The teacher places the serpent right up to Eve’s ear while making hissing sounds, as the melodrama of lies unfolds. Lies.

First, Eve wasn’t even there when God gave Adam the rules of the Garden, Genesis 2: God put the man in the Garden, and told he was to work it and take care of it (tend it) and then told, you are free to eat from any tree in the Garden – EXCEPT- the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil, you shall NOT eat.

God told Adam the day he ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge he would surely die - one day to God is as a thousand years and A Thousand Years is as one day -Adam died the day he ate the fruit.

Lucifer told Eve she would not die, if she ate the fruit - that God knows if they ate the fruit their eyes will be opened and they would become as gods and know good and evil.

Lucifer may have lied when he said “You shall not surely die” - only if he was referring to Eternal separation of death in the Lake of Fire. Even then it was not the whole truth of the matter. There is the death that Jesus refers to as sleeping - because only the flesh body is dead but the spirit is still alive and waiting for judgment to determine death in the Lake of Fire. The same day they ate the fruit they did not die … twisted truth.

In the garden of Eden the serpent lied, not God because when God said that Adam and Eve was going to die, he never said that they were going to die immedietly. The Devil told them that they would not die, so the Devil lied. The serpent was used by Satan like a ventriloquist uses a dummy. God told Adam that if they ate of the fruit of the tree or even touched it they would die. Satan called God a liar when he told Eve she would positively not die if she ate of the fruit. He called God a liar by saying that. Gen. 3:4, 5.

God did not lie to Adam when he told him he would die with in that day. Whose day are we referring to Gods or Adams. their day is different. Adams day is measured by the rising and setting of the sun while Gods day has no set evaluation. the bible speaks of Gods day as a thousand years and a thousand yeas as a day. One thing we do know based on that Adam did not reach one thousand years before he died so according to Gods day Adam did die. so the not speaking the truth in Eden was Satan who needed to disguise himself as the snake he is.

If you are asking this question something is seriously wrong with you. Sorry. How can you assume that God lied? The wicked angel, who with that lie became Satan, lied. Why, of course!

Satan is the father of lies while God does not ever lie.

"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44.

“These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.” Heb 6:18.

lie is not telling the truth.

God made many pronouncement in the Garden, but the one that joined God and serpent was about the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

In that case, none of them lied.

Serpent only elaborated on what God has said, that eating from the fruit will open the eye and the mind and they will be like God.

When they eat the fruit their eye and mind open and God also ascertained it that they have become like them, the creator.

Then God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden so that they will not take from the tree of life and lived forever.

God knew he could maintained man forever, but kept the key(the tree of life) he knew if man do not take from the fruit man will surely die. I think the word you will die the day you eat you will die was referring to creative day. You know The day for years months and season was created on the 4th day of Creation that can not be the same periodic day with the one created on the 4th day.

According to the Bible the garden of Eden had everything a humans heart would desire so there is nothing in comparison to it. God has not changed his plan.

It all comes down to trust. Do we trust God, that He is the good Creator God who loves us and seeks our best interest? Or do we trust the lie, believing ourselves better than God, trusting what we see and the creation and not the One who created it, willingly deceived by the father of lies? None of us will ever really be “as God”; ultimately, we will have to put our trust into something or someone. Life may not always make sense; there may be times when the circumstances in which we find ourselves are not very conducive to trusting God. But we should always remember what Eve in the Garden forgot: we do not understand the whole situation or our real condition. We are easily prompted to forget God’s goodness and focus on problems and challenges, let alone our propensity toward conceit and vanity.

We do not know everything; we cannot know everything. Our perspectives are slanted, biased, and distorted. Let us resist the voice of the serpent, questioning and challenging God’s character and goodness toward His creation. Let us maintain our trust in God no matter what may come, glorifying His name no matter the circumstance!

Yet, as with Eve, so with us: we are easily deceived. We often find His standards bothersome, in practice if not in words. We struggle with difficult questions in life, wondering how God could allow us to be in whatever difficult condition in which we find ourselves, wondering how God can allow things to go on as they do, and so on and so forth. These temptations erode our trust in God; in any circumstance in which we stop trusting God and start trusting anything else, the sin is complete before we even act upon the impulse. We have rebelled against our Creator.