The Original Warning. Genesis 3:1-7 NLT

I'm sure you've played that game where you tell someone something and they tell the next person and they repeat it to the next person and so on. By the time it gets to the last person, it is not at all resembling the original message. 

So the first problem I see is God told Adam and Adam told Eve and Eve told the serpent. The original message changed by the time Eve repeated it. The serpent didn't care what the message was, he would have twisted and lied about it anyway, that's what Satan does, that who Satan is. 

Satan will do anything to harm our relationship with God. He's jealous. He can't get the relationship he once had with God back so he tries to destroy ours. Satan entices us to sin and leaves us to deal with the consequences. The guilt, the shame and the separation from God. 

Genesis 2:16-17 NLT

16 But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—  17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” 

Genesis 3:1-7 NLT

The Man and Woman Sin 

1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 

2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.  3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’” 

4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman.  5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” 

6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.  7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. 

Blessings, Cecilia