Jan 8
From Eden to the Mount
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” — attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That sentence sounds almost too modern to sit beside scripture, and yet it rests comfortably there, like a stone that has always belonged in the riverbed. In the Garden of Eden, deception does not arrive as a command. It arrives as a conversation. The serpent speaks, but he does not invent desire. He only…