Most people begin reading Genesis 3 one verse too late.

Before the serpent entered the garden, Adam and Eve stood naked and unashamed in a world without guilt, suspicion, or shame. Then another voice entered and offered them a different story about God, His Word, and the world He had made.

The serpent's first weapon was not the fruit. It was a question: "Did God actually say?"

In this episode, Greg Cash examines the serpent's lie in Genesis 3 and reveals why the first battle in Scripture was a battle over story. Satan reframed God's generosity as restriction, made rebellion sound like freedom, and convinced Adam and Eve that they could have God's world without submitting to God.

The same strategy is still at work. Our culture constantly tells us competing stories about identity, sexuality, marriage, money, success, suffering, and freedom. Even our private sins begin with stories we tell ourselves about why disobedience is reasonable.

Reality, however, does not bend because we rename it. Adam believed the rival story, and death entered the world. But the serpent did not get the final word. Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, resisted the lie, obeyed the Father, died on the cross, and walked out of the grave.

There has only ever been one true Story. You did not write it. Satan cannot rewrite it. And Jesus Christ has already secured its ending.

Topics include Genesis 3, Adam and Eve, the serpent's lie, Satan's temptation, biblical worldview, sin, identity, cultural narratives, the Last Adam, and the gospel.