[betty boop]

Very tragic, the result of their efforts to mediate Truth is to foster the Lie.

Dearest sister in Christ, lately I've begun to appreciate what is beginning to look like a plain fact to me: Satan's lies are successful because he knows "how to tell the truth skillfully." Human beings seem to be naturally susceptible to appeals like that. For instance, see the Serpent's persuasion of Adam in heavenly Eden....

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed, Jesus plainly said that Satan is the father of lies:

Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. - John 8:44

Notice how he first tells a lie then accuses God of telling a lie and then appeals to Eve's pride. Were it not for pride, his appeal would have meant nothing.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. - Gen 3:4-5

To God be the glory!