{"id":1866,"date":"2011-04-26T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2011-04-26T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:53:23","slug":"satan-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1866\/satan-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Satan In the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I wonder how Satan excused himself to lie to Eve, assuming he knew that God was watching him do it. I guess the serpent may not have been him, but Satan would have known God knew he was involved, at the least. He certainly wasn&#8217;t trying to get on God&#8217;s bad side. Could it have been another Job situation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John David<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, it could have been. Why would God have even put a forbidden tree there in the garden in the first place if He was not going to try Adam with it? At any rate, God had not lost any control; that much, we know.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>The scene with Eve and the serpent in Genesis 4 may have been the result of an untold scene in heaven like the one found in 2Kings 17-22.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how Satan excused himself to lie to Eve, assuming he knew that God was watching him do it. I guess the serpent may not have been him, but Satan would have known God knew he was involved, at the least. He certainly wasn&#8217;t trying to get on God&#8217;s bad side. Could it have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}