The Origin of Sin.

The Bible teaches us that sin entered the world as the result of the transgression of Adam and Eve in paradise. The first sin was occasioned by the temptation of Satan in the form of a serpent, who sowed in man's heart the seeds of distrust and unbelief.

Scripture clearly indicates that the serpent, who appears as the tempter in the story of Sin of the fall, was but an instrument of Satan,

John 8:44; Rom. 16:20;  2 Cor. 11:3; Rev. 12:9.