Taken Hostage!

 Many times in order to get what they want criminals will take hostages...  
Because people will generally give in because they do not want harm to come to the hostages... 
That will allow the criminal to get away with the crime!

 **  Satan knew he could not overpower God; and  also knew that God had given Adam and Eve the unconditional authority  over the earth!  Because God had told Adam and Eve  -  " that they had dominion "  or total ownership...  

 Since humans were given their own free will - then if Satan could get them to give their authority over to him - he would take over the world system!

God as Creator; He could have just taken over, destroying mankind, and all the angels who had rebelled - by just starting over!   But ruther than intervene in the affairs of the world would have violated His Own Word and His own Principles!   Since He had given power and authority of the earth to Adam and Eve - God could not violate His Word - else the entire Universe would self-destruct because of His the lose integrity of His Word!  

This is why Almighty God does can accept lies -

 Words are power that can either create or curse...  

 By Words God Created the Universe and everything we that see and know...

 His Character is based upon His infallible Word of Honor and Truth!

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Genesis 2:

 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam[a] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[b] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man."

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 2:20 Or the man
2. Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
3. Genesis 2:22 Or part

Genesis 3:1-22New International Version (NIV)

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?"

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”

20 Adam[c] named his wife Eve,[d] because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.  But He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 3:15 Or seed
2. Genesis 3:15 Or strike
3. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
4. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.

New International Version (NIV)

 ** Do you see how Evil was brought into the earth by Satan and has been used to corrupt humans? 

  Does this give you thoughts about how to seek God in your life and learn from the Holy Scriptures found in the Bible that can help to guide your life into Eternity?