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The Day the Image of God was Hacked by a Talking Religious Snake!

 

This is the third email about the confrontation between “the image of God” and a “talking religious snake”! A few minutes ago, at the beginning of the conversation between the woman and the snake, the woman believed this:

 

If I touch or eat the forbidden fruit I will die!

 

But the snake told her this:

 

When you eat the forbidden fruit you will become a wise god.

 

While all of that was going on:

 

The man stood there listening and saying nothing.

 

Now put yourself in the woman’s shoes. She has three option to choose from.

 

1. Do nothing and things remain the same.

 

2. Touch the forbidden fruit and die.

 

3. Eat the forbidden fruit and become a wise god.

 

This is one of those rare opportunities in a Bible story that we are allowed to see what someone is thinking (3:6a). Pay close attention to what she is seeing in her mind.

 

● She saw that the tree was good for food.

 

● She saw that it was pleasant to the eyes.

 

In an earlier verse we were told -- “Yahweh made every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food.” What she saw in her mind was real. But then, seemingly out of nowhere, she sees something she had never seen before.

 

● She saw a tree desirable to make one wise.

 

She saw something that was not real – her brain had been hacked! This is one of those places where the paths of Bible wisdom and science intersect. Both reveal something that is very relevant to our lives today.

 

You (humans) only have two options for exercising power:

persuasion or physical force.

Power is the ability to get someone to do what you want them to do.

 

Persuasion is the use of symbols (words and pictures), while physical force usually refers to taking someone’s possessions, incarceration, physical harm or death.

 

The use of persuasion by the snake was the use of power

against the humans; it was literally a verbal assault!

 

Anytime you are on the internet, you (and your children), are targets of powerful algorithms that aggressively attack your subconscious mind to get you to do what they want you to do!

 

Science has revealed that the brain ingests information, creates belief models from that information. It uses those belief models to generate an individual’s reality. The power of a belief model is measured in “degrees of persuasion.”

 

The higher the degree of persuasion, the higher the level of certainty.

The lower the degree of persuasion, the lower the level of certainty.

 

When the conversation began, the woman was certain she would die if she touched the fruit, but after the snake’s use of power against her, she was more certain that eating the fruit would make her a wise god. With a new image in her mind, she acted:

 

3:6b She took the fruit . . .

 

The moment she touched the fruit her, and realized nothing happened, her level of certainty in the snake’s words must have skyrocketed.

 

3:6c . . . and she ate it . . .

 

But she didn’t stop there:  

 

3:6d . . . She gave it to the man who was with her.

 

3:6e . . . and he ate it.

 

I would love to know what he was thinking as he saw her hand begin moving toward the fruit. Why didn’t he do or say anything? That is a question seekers of ancient wisdom would immediately ask and discuss. They would put themselves in the shoes of each of the characters to see things through their eyes. Try it and see what questions you can come up with.

 

In my next email I will discuss what the woman and man actually saw after eating the forbidden fruit.

 

Shalom,

Jim Myers

 

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