CMP Review 2024-03-24

“You will not surely die,” the Serpent said to Eve. “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.”

The temptation was irresistible. Man could be like God!

Today we share the recording that completes the set of poems in Volume V of “The Saviour of the World.” Charlotte Mason closes her poetry volume with the boldest, most mysterious, and most challenging poem of all.

Of course the devil was lying when he said that Eve would not die. But could it be that his deception went deeper?

In her poem “Ye shall be as gods,” Charlotte Mason develops the shocking, provocative thought: what if the serpent was offering Adam and Even something they already possessed? Read or listen here and share your thoughts in the comments below.

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