Romans 12:1-3 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

If there a matter of just mind renewal I could have quote verse 2 alone but it is not. First there must be a sacrifice of your own thinking. Your mind is part of your body and subject to sacrifice just as much as the remainder of self. Before we came to Christ our thoughts were already full of error. We have to overcome erroneous thinking with truth.

Secondly you will want to know God’s will and that can only be accomplished by removing errors in thinking. We all come into His kingdom with some kind of preconceptions and it is never what we thought it would be. Even children who have been brought up in the Word will find that when they receive the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, mom and dad, grampa or grandma, teacher or tutor, did not have the same grasp of truth as God does.

John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Genesis 3:2-3 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Let me be clear on this, scriptures do not say how Eve got her instructions. We only know that Adam was told not to eat, God did not say do not touch. Eve’s conversation with Satan is also an error but not one she would have recognized as instructions in how to deal with Satan came to us much later. She can be considered innocent in that conversation.

It is not accurate that God said do not touch. This is a lie and lies are Satan’s stronghold. I am sure there are a number of people that would consider this no biggie as far as lies go. How big a lie is not the point, giving Satan a foothold is the point.

Jesus showed us in His wilderness temptations how to deal with Satan, by accurate and appropriate scripture. Personally I find it better not to engage in any conversation with Satan, but one has to recognize Satan in order to ignore him. As many people do not believe in Satan as do not believe in God, maybe more.

My point is that an accurate understanding of scriptures is our best defense against our enemy, Satan.

At the beginning of this I said a man believed God did not know Adam was going to sin. Did that man know it was a lie? Probably no more than he knew the source, Satan. Satan can put lying thoughts into your head and if you do not know Truth, what sounds good sits down and takes a place where it has no business, in your mind.