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NASB | Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" [Rev 12:9-11] |
Subject: Who created Evil? |
Bible Note: At the end of the sixth creative day,after having created Adam and then Eve,our Creator Jehovah God said to them,"Here I have given to you all vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree on which there is the fruit of a tree bearing seed. To you let it serve as food. And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food." Then the account continues, saying,"After that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day."(Gen 1:29-31) The original sin started in the Garden of Eden,after God's pronouncement of "good", when Satan told a lie to Eve. In using a serpent, he slyly asked her,"Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree of the garden?" She replied,"Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat from it, no, you must not touch it that you do not die.'" This now wicked angel told her,"You positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad." Hence, Satan told the first lie, for just as Jesus said concerning him,in speaking to some opposers, "You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie]."(John 8:44) Therefore, Jesus clearly identified "the Devil" as the one who spoke the first "lie" and was "in the truth" prior to his deceiving Eve. Too, the term "Lucifer" is a translation of the Hebrew word heh·lel´,meaning "shining one." Heh·lel´ is not a name or a title but, rather, a term describing the boastful position taken by Babylon's dynasty of kings of the line of Nebuchadnezzar.) (Isa 14:4-21) Since Babylon was a tool of Satan, its "king" reflected Satan's own ambitious desire. And concerning Beelzebub, this is a designation applied to Satan the prince, or ruler, of the demons. The religious leaders blasphemously accused Jesus Christ of expelling demons by means of Beelzebub.-Mt 10:25; 12:24-29. Be·el´ze·bub,is possibly an alteration of Baal-zebub, meaning "Owner of the Flies," the Baal worshiped by the Philistines at Ekron. Alternately, Beelzeboul and Beezeboul, possibly meaning, "Owner of the Lofty Abode (Habitation)"; or, if a play on the non-Biblical Heb. word ze´vel (dung), "Owner of the Dung". Whichever name or title is used, it only brings to the fore, that he is the archenemy of Jehovah God,wishing to thwart God's everlasting purpose for the earth. |