Aware of human propensities to deception, Paul confessed, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (II Cor. 11:3).

Popular contemporary, evangelical teachers tone-down, dress-up, disguise and Christianize Satan’s garden lie, “Ye shall not surely die,” stupefying the minds and blinding the eyes of men just as it did with our first parents.