Crafty Serpent Convinced Eve to Bite the Forbidden Fruit
Creator: andipantz | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Copyright: andipantz Information extracted from IPTC Photo Metadata. From Scripture, the Lord reveals that Eve ate the apple that caused man to die because the serpent was a agent of satan. Genesis 3:1–6 says it. Genesis 3:1 says that “ t he serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made .” So the devil had overtaken the serpent and made it “more crafty” than any of the other wild animals. Making the serpent “more crafty” means giving it satanic power. Since the serpent was more crafty, through the devil, the serpent was able to poison Eve’s mind with doubt about what God said and Why. The serpent put doubt in Eve’s mind when he said “Did God really say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?” (Genesis 3:1) and then when satan said “You will not certainly die,…” Then, to add insult to injury, satan put greed in Eve’s mind when he said “…for God knows that ...