Was it a day like today? Did the dawn chase away midnight dreams? From mountain peaks to valley floors, surely all creation joined nature's chorus as the Almighty's symphony sprang to life. This voiceless choir sang utopian melodies of heavenly ecstasy while lions and lambs shared breakfast leaves.

Not a weed or even a grating word poisoned this sublime paradise. Did the swallow's breezy melody rouse our original parents? Did their eyes open at the playful nudge of an amiable beast? They laughed, they loved and simplicity ruled. Then revolution. Sedition!

By sunset the songbird's strain shed its rapture, even the grass wore gloomy hues. Whispers and gasps, sobs and groans pushed through swaying fields pursuing relief, but finding none. Dispirited waters lay quiet below crimson skies as the back of God's creation buckled under the burden of sedition's abomination. Confusion grabbed repose, brutes roared and consciences begged for clothes. Offering treason no reward, with angels and blazing swords God promised to end sin's discord.

If sorrow flowed like spring streams and tears poured like rain surely this evening beheld both. Did Adam forget the decree of his God? Did Eve consider the significance of her sin? How did such disaster occur? They walked with the Almighty every day! Their minds were strong and their bodies perfect. They contended with just one temptation. Just one! What was their explanation? What was their reasoning?

Did our first parents lack faith in the honor of their Creator's clear warning; in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. (Gen 2:17)? Did they think that somehow they could hinder the declaration of almighty God, or that He might alter His divine edict? Perhaps they hoped for a celestial case of amnesia.

What dementia seized the minds of the holy pair? Friend, like a cerebral stranglehold, "Ye shall not surely die" fastened its grip on the perfect minds of paradise. If Satan's lying promise duped our pre-fall parents who enjoyed daily, physical communion with their Creator, only our heavenly Father knows the exponentially greater possibility of our deception.

Dear reader, nothing changes Satan's lie into the truth. Nothing! Just as nothing can make two plus two equal five, nothing can make, "Ye shall not surely die," a true statement when spoken to anyone, professing Christian or not, who persists in sin. Gentle reader, be warned, though popular but grossly deceived contemporary, evangelical teachers tone-down, dress-up, disguise and Christianize Satan's lie, "Ye shall not surely die," remains hell's dope tragically stupefying the minds and blinding the eyes of men!

For a detailed look at deception within the Christian church read Daniel LaLond's book The Lying Promise. The book exposes Satan's garden lie woven into the Christian gospel.