FACT CHECK
Today's reading: Genesis 1-3

"Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the Lord God had made. Really? he asked the woman. Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?" Genesis 3:1 NLT

I don't know about you, but my enemy never asks me the hard questions.

He doesn't tempt me by asking, What's the practical implications of an atheistic worldview?

Or, Why does the Old Testament God seem so much different from the New Testament God? 

I've never once, in my struggle of faith, been questioned with, Just how do you explain the idea of the Trinity?

Nope.

Maybe it's because I'm too simple minded. Or too unschooled. Or too Bible illiterate to be asked such hard questions.

My enemy tempts me, as he did Eve, with single-word-doubt-placing-inuendos.

Really?

Why?

When?

How?

I struggle with everyday things far too much and too often to be bothered by worldviews, theological debates or matters far too complicated for my mind.

But it's these little questions that lead my mind, and quite possibly yours, on a rabbit trail of doubt, confusion, fear and worry.

To combat these questions?

I fact check with Scripture.

I confer with the Lord.

I pause and ponder in prayer.

I choose to respond not react.

I 'check the return address' on the words being asked of me.

Maybe, just maybe, our world would have been a much, much better place had Eve done the same.