So what is this self-belief? What conviction about ourselves sits beneath the dismay that so quickly bubbles over into outrage? It is the sin underlying all sins, the first and most fundamental failing of the human heart. It is the desire to be god. Ever since Satan lured Adam and Eve to take the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, this is the essential failing that has plagued and defiled the human heart. Here is the serpent’s lure:
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