Sounds all too familiar.....I hear “serpent talk”
Satan said...”You will not surely die”......”you will be like God”
Their conversation continued until we reach the clincher....... and Eve said.....”You must not touch it”..or you will die.”........
But now God Never said they couldn't touch it....she ‘added’ on to God's ‘spoken word.’
And various religions have been doing so ever since...add a book, add several books, add rituals, add this and that until the smokescreen is so thick the truth can no longer be seen or heard. It's how satan works and his practices cross the whole gambit of cults,occults,and counterfeit Christianity.
I did say all cults have the same format of deception, satan just dresses each one according to his targets, but the platform is the same... Dethrone God...and make people Believe they will sit there....just like He wanted that seat.
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I hadn’t seen it that way before, excellent insight. Thanks!
Speaking about what happened in the Garden of Eden, the mormons honor Eve as the cause of their salvation...
Its blasphemeous and sickening...
Celebrating Eve
Lds apostle Dallin Oaks wrote: “Some Christians condemn Eve for her act, concluding that she and her daughters are somehow flawed by it. Not the Latter-day Saints! Informed by revelation, we celebrate Eve’s act and honor her with wisdom and courage in the great episode called the Fall.” (”The Choice that Began Mortality” Liahona, 2002)
Apostle John A. Widtsoe said that “In Joseph Smith’s philosophy of existence Adam and Eve were raised to a foremost place among the children of men, second only to the Savior. Their act was to be acclaimed. They were the greatest figures of the ages. The so-called ‘fall’ became a necessary, honorable act in carrying out the plan of the Almighty” (Joseph Smith—Seeker After Truth, p. 160).
Joseph Fielding Smith also said that “the fall of man came as a blessing in disguise, ... I never speak of the part Eve took in this fall as a sin, nor do I accuse Adam of a sin.... it is not always a sin to transgress a law” (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 114-15).
Sterling W. Sill, a member of the First Quorum of Seventy, made the same point in colorful language:
This old sectarian doctrine, built around the idea of man’s natural depravity and weakness inherited from Adam, is at the root of innumerable problems among us. Adam was one of the greatest men who has ever lived upon the earth....
Under Christ Adam yet stands at our head.... Adam fell, but he fell in the right direction. He fell toward the goal....
Adam fell, but he fell upward. Jesus says to us, “Come up higher” (Deseret News, Church Section, July 31, 1965, p. 7).
Or Adam did.
She wasn't around yet when GOD spoke to Adam.
Genesis 2:15-22
15 And the LORD God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."
18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper meet for him."
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet for him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
22 And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman and brought her unto the man.
Parents; ALWAYS with the best of intentions; seem to ADD on stuff when they are warning their kids...
"...or your eyes will STAY that way!"