God told Adam not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, becuse if he did so he would surely die. The wise serpent descended and told Adam that he would not die, but would would become like God, in that he would come to know the distinction between good and evil. So who lied? And who told the truth? It seems to me that god lied and the serpent told the truth. This seems significant to me. God is lying to Adam as a way of manipulating him (since he can't stop Adam from eating the fruit of the tree, because Adam has free will). The serpent, who is usually said to be evil, actually tells Adam the truth. Eve figures it's a good thing to become like gods. Adam goes along with her. And now we have rockets to the moon and computers. Which, if they come from the serpent, and if the serpent is considered to be the Devil, we would logically be forced to conclude are Satanic, and stop using them. That's pretty much the reasoning of the Amish, and it's hard to fault them on it. Modern science is Luciferian. All of us who use it are children of Satan. Or, if you look at the serpent in a different manner, as the *liberator* of humanity from the prison of the Garden, we are children of knowledge (gnosis).