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And this is where the rub lies. Derek Kidner offers the following comment on Genesis 3 regarding Satan’s tempting proposal to Adam and Eve, “The climax is a lie big enough to reinterpret life … and dynamic enough to redirect the flow of affection and ambition. To be as God, and to achieve it by outwitting him, is an intoxicating programme.”30 Adam’s and Eve’s emotions are incited and directed against God rather than for him. Emotion, like eating and drinking and whatever we do, should be to
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