Did Satan really lie to Eve?

Question

In Genesis 3:1-7 where it talks about Satan telling Eve that if she eats the fruit, her eyes are bound to be opened being like God, knowing good and evil did he truly lie to her? Upon eating the fruit they became aware of being naked and felt ashamed. So it seems to me he told the truth, their eyes were opened. I am being serious and request only serious answers please. I have wondered this for a long time, how is it perceived as lying? Thanks!

Answer 1

I have never thought that was a lie.not that part you are correct he did not lie.
but when he said in ch3:4"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die"
well that was a big fat lie because from that day on we started dying.
so seems like a little lie mixed with truth as a good lie usually is hope this helps

Answer 2

The point was not so much that Satan lied (he did), but that he enticed them into doing that which they knew was wrong. Satan often uses this tactic: Take a sin and add just enough truth to it to make it taste good. It's an attempt to make it more irresistable. Notice that he tested Eve's knowledge first by asking her, "Has God surely said?" Eve's response was to add in something that God did not say, "or touch it." God never said they couldn't touch the fruit, He said they could not eat it. So, when Satan heard her say that he knew he had her, and he had Adam too, because the scripture says that Adam was with her at the time. Adam heard what Satan was saying and he heard Eve's errant response and did nothing. Satan knew they were ripe for deception and he took advantage of the situation. They both already had the knowledge of good. They had direct communication with God and He was instructing them in the ways of righteousness. That knowledge, they already had. Now, they had the knowledge of evil too (good AND evil). SIN had entered the world and the cover-up began, first with fig leaves and hiding from God in the bushes, then by the creation of religion, which is man's attempt to make up his own rules and tell God, "Look God, this is what I am going to do to make myself acceptable to you, and if I do these things I have to be accepted by you. After all, if I was God, that's the way I would do it." In other words, they tell God that He doesn't know what He is talking about and they have a better way. More successful deception from the evil one.

Today there are many who think they know enough to resist the devil's schemes, but like Adam and Eve, they are easily deceived because they do not know the scriptures, they only think they do.

Why not just do it the way God says and forget the other stuff?


God bless you.

Answer 3

Satan also told them that God did not want them to eat the fruit because if they did, they would become like God. That was not at all the reason God did not allow them not to eat it.

Adam and Eve did become like God in a way; knowing good and evil, but God told them not to eat of the fruit because only complete sinlessness could remain in the garden. They knew no sin, except that eating the fruit would be a sin.

So even if Satan did tell a half truth, he still lied about God's motives.

Answer 4

There is a difference between a lie and a temptation. A temptation could be the truth designed to lure you to do what is wrong. This is confirmed when God spoke and said, "the man has become like us (like God) knowing both good and evil..."

However, Satan DID lie when he said, "You will not surely die." In other words, he was accusing GOD of lying. So when both ate of the fruit, death entered into the world.

Answer 5

That part was the truth.
Satan is cunning, and will not usually tell some one only a lie.
He usually will mix in a lie with a known truth.

The lie here was not knowing good and evil, but that they would die.
The physical death was not instant (they lived for several hundred more years), but God may not have planed on any one dying but being taken like Enoch.
The Spiritual death was instant, and each person now must chose for them selves to accept Jesus as their Savior and be born again (born from above).

Answer 6

Serpent, deceptive. Half truth. Problem, to get man to fall and disobey God. Mission accomplished. See the results? P.S. Thats not the real problem, when Eve answered back she said, that God said, you shall not eat, nor touch it. God never said that. Satan is the deceiver, don't be a fool and give him credit. Sin starts change of events that we will never truly understand yet

Answer 7

Satan said:
"God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”
Genesis 3:5.
You are bound to be like God, knowing good and evil.
Did they become an equal to God, knowing how to judge between good and evil?
Realizing they were naked seems like very small potatoes compared to being like God and judging right and wrong, good and evil.
Satan lied.

Answer 8

Keep in mind Adam and Eve were innocent.

Gullible.

They were in the Garden safe and protected.

Neither Eve nor Adam had any concept of evil having only experienced God's love.

They had nothing to be ashamed of nor to be fearful of - nothing at all.

Through believing what Satan, the old dragon, the serpent said and partaking of "fruit" Adam and Eve did have their eyes opened and then knew shame, fear, and falsehood.

Did Satan lie? Yes. You shall not die was the lie.

Note: Adam is still mostly innocent and quite obviously so. Adam has not yet learned to lie:

10
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
____________

But Adam has figured out how to justify and pass the buck(but he tells the truth):

12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

____________

And then God asks Eve and she to is truthful:

13
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
____________________

This story is actually quite deep this is one level.

Beguiled = seduced, to decieve (go to link and open view full entry)

Also beguile is related "to remove" and "error" and "forget".

If we remove truth and believe an error and forget fact - We believe a lie!


Q. What were Adam and Eve ashamed of?

A. Nakedness.

Answer 9

No he didn't lie to her, if you'll notice later on God says, Man as become like us, knowing Good and Evil. So satan told the truth.

Answer 10

I think the deceit is in the "being Like God"....Eve was not content ...Like Satan with her submissive position to god..She wanted divinity. She got part of it but in the scheme of creation lost her perfection and ended up in a much lower class than she was created in.