From nearly the very beginning of human existence, God’s dealings with humans have instructed them to accept His wisdom in setting boundaries for them about acceptable sources of wisdom (Gen. 2:17 compared with Genesis 3:6). Rejecting God’s wisdom and righteousness, Eve foolishly and sinfully sought wisdom (“a tree to be desired to make one wise” [Gen. 3:6]) by a forbidden means from a forbidden source of wisdom that God sovereignly had put off-limits to her.
She was deceived into doing so by the work of an evil, supernatural, non-human spirit being (Gen. 3:13; 2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:14) of whom Eve had no knowledge. In fact, she had no capability of knowing what really was taking place and took place that led to her transgressing against God.
We must learn from Eve’s horrific and tragic foolishness and sinfulness. As finite, corporeal beings, we as humans apart from divine revelation are utterly incapable of understanding how things of the spirit world work.
We therefore are simply no match for evil, supernatural, non-human spirit beings who incomparably surpass us in so many ways. Our only place of safety is to exalt God’s wisdom and righteousness in His demanding that we utterly reject all wisdom from forbidden sources of wisdom that is demonic.
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