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Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

The first words that serpent of old were quoting scripture.

There's a lesson there all by itself...

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>> “The first words that serpent of old were quoting scripture.” <<

More importantly, quoting scripture only in part, so as to send a message opposite to that which the scripture presents.

This brings the Acts Chapter 15 lying sound bite that is so popular here on the Religion Forum to mind. Literally inverting the direct purpose of the scripture. (Of the entire Book of Acts)

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