The First Temptation
It’s easy in this culture to form an opinion
and slowly let it harden into fact.
Not truth,
but familiar.
We don’t even have to go looking for confirmation anymore.
It finds us.
The algorithm learns what we already lean toward
and feeds us a steady diet of agreement.
Article after article.
Clip after clip.
Confidence without friction.
No challenge to our thinking.
Only reinforcement.
Over time, bias starts to feel like wisdom.
Repetition starts to feel like truth.
We don’t ask, Is this right?
We ask, Does this agree with me?
That impulse isn’t new.
The first temptation in Scripture wasn’t pleasure or power.
It was knowledge.
The tree was called the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9
The offer wasn’t simply to break a rule.
It was to redefine reality.
To decide what is good.
To define what is righteous.
To build our own version of truth.
We still reach for the same thing.
Knowledge didn’t bring freedom.
It brought distance.
The moment humanity decided it could define good and evil on its own,
it stepped away from the One who already had.
Wisdom was never meant to replace justice.
Knowledge was never meant to outrun humility.
God never warned Adam and Eve about curiosity.
He warned them about independence.
Maybe the danger was never the tree.
Maybe it was the desire to write our own rules.
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