Craig T. Owens

The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. (Genesis 3:6 NLT)

Notice that the phrase “Eve was convinced” comes after satan’s argument and before she looked at the fruit. In other words, she looked at the fruit through a wrong paradigm because she had listened to the wrong voice. 

This is why we need to take every thought captive and make it obedient to The Word. 

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV)

If we don’t, we—like Eve—can become convinced that sin is okay before we even examine the evidence. Then we aren’t able to evaluate the evidence from a godly paradigm, but from a self-centered, sin-tainted paradigm. But if we capture our thoughts and silence those that don’t line up with God’s Word, we can evaluate the evidence through a Spirit-anointed paradigm.

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