ancient mythologies accounted for these events in God's Garden, the murder of Abel by Cain, etc., supplanting the Truth with various names.

 

Even today, many teachers of God's Word would rather believe these myths rather than the record of events in Genesis, just because of the existence of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that are older than the time of Moses, who put down The Word from God in Genesis. These unlearned even base their false assumption that Moses got the creation story from these ancient Babylonian tablets.

     The word 'trees' as used in these verses dealing with 'the tree of knowledge of good and evil', is the Hebrew word 'atsah', and means 'to shut or close the eyes' (Strong’s nos. 6095, root of 6086, 'ets'). So this serpent, who is Satan, is even lying about the 'eyes being opened' and becoming 'as gods'. Hey, it's nothing new; Satan's children are still trying to push these ideas today.

 

So what's the main lesson from all of this? It is this: God caused all to be born of woman one time in the flesh (except Satan and his angels) to find out whether we would follow God, or Satan. When we go it alone, without God in our lives, we may get some knowledge on our own that aligns with His Word, and most likely after messing up a bunch, in pain and misery. That is the 'hard way' to Truth, and is this 'atsah', or 'closing of the eyes'.

 

When we choose to come to our Heavenly Father, and sincerely listen to Him through His Word Jesus Christ, seeking His guidance and direction in our lives, we have the 'victory' over this flesh. The 'price' Christ paid already for us. We will be tested however; but not to worry...

 

Rom.8:31: ” for If God be for us, who can be against us?"

 

Gen 3:6   And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

     These descriptions here all refer to the bodily pleasures of the flesh. Here are some more parallels to these in God's Word:

I Jn 2:16   For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Gen 6:2   That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

     You should notice that Eve looked upon a 'tree', not fruit, or apples. Further, how can eating an apple make you wise? I know a lot of people who love apples, (Trigger) and...Well, maybe I better leave that one alone. I hope you did some homework back in Genesis 2 around verse 9 in my second Letter on Genesis, where I gave many Bible references on various meanings of 'trees' in God's Word referring to people.
     I'm going to give you something else to ponder concerning this 'serpent', who is Satan, and this 'tree of knowledge of good and evil', meaning Satan was once a good Cherub…

 

 Ezek.28: 1 God’s judgement upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride.  11 A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by sin. 20 The judgement of Zidon. 24 The restoration of Israel.

 

 …but became evil. Many mystical systems handed down throughout the centuries teach about traversing levels, up, in a snakelike spiral fashion, back to the path of ultimate wisdom. This was the main goal of the 'mysteries' of various pagan temples. This 'serpent' represents the 'path' to