Richard from Enhasset, New York, writes and asks this.

Pastor John, since Christian hedonists believe humans are joy seekers and will always

make decisions based upon what brings them the most pleasure, how did Adam and Eve sin

when they experienced perfect, unbroken communion with God, the greatest pleasure?

Did the first human sin in fact reveal that perfect delight in God is not strong enough

to overpower the allurement of temptations?

I would say no, I don't think that's what it reveals.

What the first human sin reveals is that God did not preserve in the hearts of Adam

and Eve perfect delight in him.

He let them be lured away from that perfect delight in himself, and that is precisely

why they found the tree more compelling than God.

In the moment that they chose the forbidden fruit, they were not delighting in God more

than in the fruit.

They had been tricked, that's the point of Genesis 3, 1 to 6.

Let's just read it and watch how Moses, the writer, is helping us understand why it

is that they cave.

Here's what he says.

The serpent is more crafty, that's a key word, than any other beast of the field that

the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, did God actually say so?

He is trying to get her to stop being satisfied in the trustworthiness of God.

God actually said, you shall not eat of any tree in the garden, and the woman said to

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