The DAILY TRUTH episode highlights an upcoming Post Millennial and Theonomy Conference in Georgetown, Texas, featuring Dr. James White and others, while analyzing Genesis 3 to argue that Adam and Eve's sin was substituting their own character for God's as the moral standard. This shift, echoing Judges 21:25, drives modern cultural decay by prioritizing subjective autonomy over divine truth, necessitating an unchanging ethical framework to counter pervasive relativism in politics and media today. [Automatically generated summary]
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Adam and Eve Like God00:04:25
Wait, Hold it.
Big announcement, a scary announcement, a threat, but also a promise.
The price of our conference, the Post Millennial and Theonomy Conference, it's going up.
It's going up right after Reformation Day.
We are going to hold the price at $100, which is super cheap for a three day conference with Dr. James White, Dr. Joseph Boot, Dr. Gary DeMar, and the guy who's not a doctor.
So we'll say Pastor Joel Webben.
We've got a great conference May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas, just north of Austin, for $100.
Super cheap.
But we can't hold that price forever.
So if you want to get into that price, you got to get in now, right after Reformation Day, not Halloween, Reformation Day, October 31st.
That's the last day that you can get in this conference, register at the price of a hundred bucks.
After that, starting November 1st, it's going to be a hundred and thirty.
So go to Right Response Conference dot com, Right Response Conference dot com, and register today.
Thanks.
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The serpent, as we'll see in chapter 3, he lied, but the best lies that are most effective always contain at least some measure of truth.
As the serpent and what he spoke to Adam and Eve, particularly Eve, he said, You will not surely die if you eat of this fruit, but God, he's holding out on you.
God is, he's got an insecurity complex.
God you know, wants to keep you down.
He doesn't want, God knows that if you eat of this fruit, you'll be like him.
That was true.
But as I've quoted often, J.I. Packer says that a half-truth that masquerades itself as a whole truth is a whole lie.
When we give part of the truth while very intentionally leaving out other portions of the truth, and we act as though that part of the truth is the whole story, that is deception.
That is a lie.
The serpent was lying to our first parents by saying, God knows you'll be like God.
Well, that's true.
They would be like God.
But the rest of the truth is that that's ultimately unsustainable.
And it's actually in this sense, it is not good for man to be like God.
In this sense, man was never meant to be like God.
Because the way in which Adam and Eve and you and I have become like God, apart from salvation in Christ, is like God.
We now determine what is moral from what is immoral by inserting the standard as our own character rather than the character of God.
In that way, Adam and Eve became like God.
So we don't need to read the text and say Adam and Eve were morally ignorant, and God wanted them to remain morally ignorant because the tree gave the knowledge of good and evil.
If you read it like that, then you start to wonder what's so bad about them eating this fruit?
Doesn't God want his people to know the difference between good and evil?
Adam and Eve already knew the difference between good and evil, they knew before ever eating of the tree.
The difference between good and evil was determined based on relating all things to the character of God.
Is it consistent with God or is it contrary to his nature?
Eating the fruit of the tree of good and evil didn't take them from moral ignorance to moral intelligence.
It inserted themselves in their own character as the new standard for what was right and wrong.
That was the great sin of our first parents.
And those implications of that sin is what we see throughout the entirety of the Bible.
And the entirety of human history.
And that's what we see even in our culture today, whether it's media or whether it's politics.
We see, like Judges chapter 21, verse 25, clearly says, every man did what was right in his own eyes.
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