cookieofdoom

“Certainly Satan does not find it necessary to offer all the kingdoms of the world to the average sinner. He can buy most sinners for small change. Nor does Satan tempt us to test our powers to work miracles. No, Satan’s temptations of Jesus were directed at His consciousness that He was the divine Son, and that He had come to do the His Father’s will. Satan aimed to cause Jesus to doubt the goodness of God With that same aim he temped Eve: ‘Did God really say ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?’ He grotesquely exaggerated the divine prohibition in Eden to insinuate that God was incredibly uncaring about human needs, and hostile to human progress.”