Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But how did the serpent tempt them?
He suggested that God may be holding out on them. Maybe He didn't want them to eat that fruit because then they'd be like him. In other words, the serpent tries to get us to doubt the omni-goodness of God. He plants a seed of doubt and says, "maybe God is withholding something". And when we doubt God's desire to bless us... we believe a lie, the original lie.
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