Satan Lies

The lies of Satan are always to deny Christ and His mission.  When Lucifer came to Eve in the Garden of Eden he was trying to get her to come under his power.  The only way for this to happen was for her to transgress the laws of God.  He told her that she would be as the gods if she ate the fruit and she asked, "Is there no other way?"  He lied, "There is no other way!" 

We know there is another way because Jesus did it the "other way."  He did NOT disobey God.  He did NOT take of the forbidden fruit.  He was NOT cast out of Heaven, becoming subject to the Devil.  He did NOT experience evil because of His own disobedience. 

Rather, He willingly accepted the experience of evil.  He came to Earth of His own accord.  He suffered not for His sins, but for those of others.  He passed through sorrow to know the good from the evil in obedience to the commandment of the Father.  Adam and Eve had to pass through sorrow because of their disobedience, but Jesus willingly accepted evil, though it wasn't necessary or just that He do so.

The truth is, Jesus did it the "other way."  Lucifer was denying Christ in saying, "There is no other way!"  And Eve believed Him.  For this she was cast out of the Garden -- for believing and obeying Lucifer and not God.  Adam "hearkened to his wife" and received the same fate -- death, exactly as God had told them.  We all suffer death and evil for our own sins and transgressions.  Christ, on the other hand, hearkened to the word of God and receives life for Himself and all those who hearken to Him.

The reason it was necessary for Adam and Eve fall was because so few of God's children, I think only Christ Himself, would be able to pass through sorrow, pain, suffering and all evil in obedience to God.  It would be too hard, one little mistake and all would be lost.  The plan of God is a perfect plan because this way all of His children are offered salvation -- and the way is easy.  As Moses raised the pole with the brass serpent in the wilderness that all who were bitten could look and be saved, likewise all we need to do to be saved is to look to Christ.  Jesus is the Savior.  We can all follow Him to Heaven the same way Adam followed Eve to "the lone and dreary world."  All we need to do is hearken to His word the same way He hearkened to the word of the Father.  There is no other way for us to be saved from the grasp of Satan, or from the effects of believing his lies.