The Hiss of the Snake: Genesis 3:1-7

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction Can you hear it? Acts 20:29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Jude 4: there are certain individuals who have secretly slipped among you, they are ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God.

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the L ORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the L ORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy 3.A Distorting Strategy Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the L ORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

Jehovah Witness LIE In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the word was a god New World Translation TRUTH In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the word was God

The Voice Lie 9-10 Do you need reminding that the unjust have no share in the blessings of the kingdom of God? Do not be misled. A lot of people stand to inherit nothing of God’s coming kingdom, including those whose lives are defined by sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, sexual deviancy, theft, greed, drunkenness, slander, and swindling. Truth 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

SDA Lie When Jesus Christ returns to earth for the second time, He will take to heaven the people who died believing in Him, as well as the people who will be alive at this time and believe in Him. People who do not believe in Christ will die. Truth It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where “‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ Mark 9:48

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy 3.A Distorting Strategy 4.A Denying Strategy 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

Rob Bell: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Lie “I can’t find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identify ourselves first and foremost as sinners.” Truth For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God Romans 3:23

Jesus vs His word A question for you – “what is truth?” Is it ultimately getting all our ideas exactly right – logically and informationally? There is no end to that road. To me truth is the PERSON of Jesus. Not to devalue the place of Scripture at all, but Jesus overrules all of our ideas and details about correct theology.

The Word vs Tradition As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. Article 2 paragraph 82

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy 3.A Distorting Strategy 4.A Denying Strategy 5.A Deifying Strategy 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,knowing good and evil.”

Roman Catholic Church: article 3 paragraph The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": 78 "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." 79 "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." 80 "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy 3.A Distorting Strategy 4.A Denying Strategy 5.A Deifying Strategy 6.A Demented Strategy 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

The Hiss of the Snake Introduction 1.A Dreary Strategy 2.A Doubting Strategy 3.A Distorting Strategy 4.A Denying Strategy 5.A Deifying Strategy 6.A Demented Strategy 7.A Declaration Strategy a.Christianb. Non Christian