A Single Lie
The single greatest lie in the world is when the serpent deceived the woman into thinking she could disobey the voice of God and continue to live. His lie was very subtle, less outright and more a twist (perversion) of words to hide the truth. In the Hebrew, the word for "surely" (muth) is the same word used for "die"(muth); so the sentence would read something like: "You shall not DIE die." Sound familiar? "It's not really a LIE lie..." "It's not REALLY stealing to take home office supplies..." No, she didn't die instantly, which is the only death she was knew existed. But she did die that day, in more ways than one. Because Adam followed her into disobedience to the Voice, death entered into the DNA of all mankind. From that day on, they began to die a slow physical death. Their bodies began to decay slowly over time until eventually both bodies died... and all bodies thereafter. But the greatest death that day was the ...