The Serpent’s tactic is to always challenge the law of God and have it replaced by man’s own word—man’s own law. “Hath God said?” Follow your own reason and “…ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5). Surely God is unreasonable, harsh, and unjust in His law. Surely the creature knows better than the Creator. You see, blurring this antithesis is essential to every sin of every man, woman, boy, and girl. 

God, while He is most gracious, merciful, and kind, is equally intolerant and discriminating when it comes to men and their beliefs and their behavior. Men have always hated this antithesis of life that God established and have sought to blur the distinctions God has made.

This is a heresy (a false belief) since, if this belief is sincerely held, then one cannot be a Christian (intolerance and discrimination). Remember the parable of the Sower and the Seed? Thorns and thistles—the cares of this world—choking out the Word of God. In the Garden, the Serpent challenged the veracity of God’s Word and suggested that man’s word (which is merely an expression of belief) was at least equal to God’s.

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