God’s motives for a command or a prohibition that God himself has kept secret. In other words, he will sow seeds of doubt in your mind concerning God’s goodness; he will lead you to believe that God has ulterior motives in what he has designed that will deprive you of blessings you might otherwise experience. “God is not telling you the whole truth. He can’t afford to,” Satan will argue. Second, this passage shows us that rarely, if ever, will Satan confront you as Satan. He will almost always approach