Obedience Without Reasoning

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“I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Cor. 11:2-3²For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. ³But 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. (2 Corinthians 11:2‑3)). What does that mean? It means to obey without reasoning. In the Garden of Eden when Eve was tempted, the serpent got her reasoning instead of obeying. She looked at that tree, and it looked pleasant to the eye. That was perfectly true. It was good for food, and that was perfectly true. It was a tree to be desired to make one wise; that had its truth in it too. The serpent hid from Eve that the act would be disobedience, and the fruit would be death. Eve began to reason instead of obeying. Remember that the Word of God is given to us for the obedience of faith.

H. E. Hayhoe (adapted)

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