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NASB | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil." |
Subject: and you will be like God |
Bible Note: What is pride? A liar? A thief? What? What is it? Why is it so bad? What is it about pride that God hates so much? It hardly seems equal to, murder, or sexual perversion! Oh my! We don’t even want to mention, that. Mass killings by suicide bombers that kill so many innocent people! Villagers hacked to peaces by machete wilding hooligans! Oh, how we cringe at the very thought! But pride, seems so, benign…. After all, it doesn’t go round with a sword, removing the heads of the innocent: Does it? What is so bad, about pride? Well then, what was it that caused the fall of Lucifer? The most beautiful of all God’s Angels: The one that some say led the songs of praise to, The Most High God! And what was it that he said to Eve in the garden that beguiled her and caused her to sin against God? Did he ask her to lie or steal or kill, or what? What was it? What was so bad about just taking a bite of the fruit, and why was she so willing to disobey God? Was it pride? Why did she do it? What was so compelling about that fruit? What was it that satin said about the fruit that caused her to want it so badly? He said: “when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God” Isn’t that just exactly what got Lucifer (the devil) domed to the fire? Wasn’t it that he, in his pride, wanted to be like God? Now we know what that first sin of disobedience brought into the world. Why, it brought of course, all of the sins in the entire world, for all time, and all the horrible things we have seen that were before mentioned. Yes, it is pride that is the father of all sin. Let us pray for the power of God’s Holy Spirit to work in our hearts and tear down that wall of pride that so deceitfully and vigilantly guards our hearts from God’s wonderful, redeeming, and sanctifying GRACE. "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph 2:8-9 "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." Gal 2:16 John "Pride can often be used to beat down the simpler vices.... Many a man has overcome cowardice, or lust, or ill temper by learning to think that they are beneath his dignity -- that is, by Pride. The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you become chaste and brave and self-controlled provided, all the time, he is setting up in you the Dictatorship of Pride.... For Pride is a spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense." - C. S. Lewis |