Yet where God tests his children, Satan tempts (Gen. 3:1–5). “God isn’t so good. How could a good father forbid you to eat from such a lovely tree?” “You and your desires are good. Follow your feelings. What you want is good. Why would God make you with those desires and then keep you from satisfying them?” “Life apart from God will bless you. Freedom means fewer restraints.” There is one more feature of Satan’s strategies that comes after these initial temptations. Once we follow his lead, he condemns us: “You are so bad; God will never love and forgive you.” There he is in all his
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