Eve believed the serpent because she wanted to; the fruit looked good to her, so instead of consulting with her husband or seeking God, she followed her lying senses. She chose to believe the devil because her desires had overridden any need to consult with anyone.
Genesis 3:6 "5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it."
When we depend almost entirely on our senses, we will be fooled often. Something looks good to our eyes, sounds good to our ears, tastes good, or feels good, and without God's truth, we will be led away into destruction. The devil uses our fleshly senses to accept falsehood that sounds plausible and even reasonable unless the light of God's truth shines upon it.
This is the reason so many Christians in our day decide what they want to believe and then go searching for scripture out of context to support their desired fleshly opinion.
Instead of discussing with Eve what God had already told him, Adam chose to go along because he too desired to eat what was forbidden. It's always easier to fall into sin when others are encouraging us to do it with them.
This is why our first consult should always be with the Holy Spirit who lives in born-again believers. If we start with people to ask for answers, we will never get around to asking God.
In these last days of apostasy it is dangerous to ask people for their opinions because those who say they are Christians are more dedicated to their traditions of men than they are to Christ.
We know this because often when we shine the light of Scripture on a matter, the person in front of us is more likely to go with conventional fleshly wisdom than with the Bible.
We live in a culture that values the opinions of men above the wisdom of God. They rarely mention the Holy Spirit and often fight against the truth to maintain their comfortable belief, which the majority enjoys, and sadly, the majority of the people trust psychology based on Darwinism more than they do in Christ.
The culture takes priority over the Word of God.
Mark 7:13 "13Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
Colossians 2:8 "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ."
1 Timothy 4:1-3 "Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."
It is best in these last days of apostasy that we seek Christ and not men. Our first go to Person ought to be Christ, then there will be no need to ask anyone else.
John 16:13-14 "13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
When God gives the answer, He will be glorified; when man gives the answer man will be glorified.
