, but from ill-will and envy, because He does not wish you to be like Himself. They state, This is a truly Satanic ploy in which an agreement between truth and untruth is secured! By eating the fruit, man did obtain the knowledge of good and evil, and in this respect became like God. This was the truth which covered the falsehood, Ye shall not die, and turned the whole statement into a lie, displaying its author as the father of lies, who abides not in the truth. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate, and gave to her husband and he did eat. K&D state that by Satan planting a distrust of Gods command in the womans head, it lead to a disregard of it, and the longing for a false independence excited a desire for the seeming good that had been prohibited; and this desire was fostered by the senses, until it brought forth sin. The more trifling the object of their sin seems to have been, the greater and more difficult does the sin itself appear; especially when we consider that the first men stood in a more direct relation to God, their Creator, than any other man has ever done, and their hearts were pure, their discernment clear, their intercourse with God direct, that they were surrounded by gifts just bestowed by Him, and could not excuse themselves on the ground of any misunderstanding of the divine prohibition, which threatened them with the loss of life in the event of disobedience. Yet not only did the woman yield to the seductive wiles of the serpent, but even the man allowed himself to be tempted by the woman. Very powerful! Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. The discovery of their nakedness brought on shame, which they sought to conceal by a covering of some sort. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. K&D explain, It was he...
