The first fibber

Where did Satan come from and how could God allow such a person to fibb to his creation? Given that Adam's sin was God's will, one comes to the conclusion that Satan was designed by God to do just what he does best; lie. Satan's first lie was so very little but its effect was so damaging. What the lie did was remove the fear of God, it removed the consequences of disobeying his commandments. With that fear removed we see something interesting happen, we see the woman's first desires for something she can gain on this earth, wisdom of a God through something she could see with her eyes, namely the fruit. But notice that it's not until after the woman gives the fruit to her husband that we know they both feel the effects of what they have done. They realize their nakedness, and therefore their sexuality. It is likely that after the woman ate she did suddenly feel a sexual desire for her husband, but because he had not eaten the fruit, his sexual desire was lacking. In her case she felt no shame, because she was deceived into believing it was perfectly fine. Therefore she likely persuaded Adam to eat along with her in order to gain the feelings she was having. Now the woman had yet to see any powerful works by God, all she had to go on was what Adam told her. Adam however had seen the the wilderness wasteland from which he came and he had witnessed the creation of his wife from his own flesh, he had also seen God create animals to which Adam named. So in this case Adam knew better than to listen to his wife. After he ate he came to realize his sexuality and saw his wife and was likely aroused, but at the same time he was also ashamed, in that he knew he had done something very very bad. So with man's knowledge to create life through sex , he simultaneously lost the ability to live forever. It is interesting to note all the sinful behavior that goes along with sex and our desire for things seen with our eyes in this world today. Although there was a tree of life in the garden and although it was free to eat from, what really mattered was for man to continuously obey God, in order to live forever. The trees therefore only had a symbolic meaning. God expelled Adam from the Garden because it would be an oxymoron for God to allow Adam to eat from the tree of life after he promised him he would die for eating from the forbidden tree. Moreover the point of placing mankind in the Garden was to show us the difference between what our Father will do for us if we obey him and the difficult time we will have if we disobey. Suppose Adam had not sinned? We'll talk about this in the next posting "God willing".