SPIN

In the political arena, description of certain events are frequently worded in a way that adds a bias to them, “spin” as the saying goes, so that they imply something that was never intended when the events happened.

The ultimate spin occurred in the Garden of Eden when Satan answered Eve: “God knows very well that when you eat this fruit, you will be like God, having knowledge of good and evil.” The spin implied that God was withholding something desirable from them.

So they ate the fruit, and they gained knowledge of good and evil. Since that first act of disobedience, they and every one of their descendants down to the present day, know what it is like to experience evil in their lives, both evil inflicted upon them and evil generated within them.

Maurice A. Williams