There is no modern Serpent. It’s the same Old Dragon, Satan. All that’s changed are there are a lot more people on earth than just Adam and Eve, and technology has changed. That’s all that’s changed. Everything remains the same within the inherent free will evil nature of man and woman, and the cunning, the great deceptions, delusions offered up by the father of lies, which people believe over the truth of God, and that there are absolute truths. Facts.

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Ken Pullen, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

The Modern Serpent: Lies in the Age of Opinion

Redefining everything has created an inverted realm where political prejudice trumps reality.

February 19, 2026

By Jeannie DeAngelis

Reprinted from American Thinker

Subjectivism is defined as the “doctrine that knowledge is merely personal and that there is no external or objective truth.” In other words, truth has no basis other than what an individual deems true at any given time. The trouble with that ideology is that a body of real events and facts exists, and, contrary to the opinion of some, those facts remain unaffected by personal feelings or inclinations.

In the beginning, the Creator imparted black-and-white truth to His creation when He warned Adam and Eve, “If you do this, you’ll surely die.” There was no gray area, no room for interpretation. This edict was clear. Soon after, a clever deceiver initiated a discussion and spread a lie that has persisted among subjectivists throughout human history: the claim that human nature favors autonomy.

Presently, we live in the same confusion that began in the Garden, when the Serpent, with no grounds for authority, subtly questioned God’s command, asserting that His warning could not be trusted and thereby convincing skeptics to determine truth apart from God.

As written in Genesis 3:4-6, here’s how it started:

³ Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

This began with the question: “Did God really say, ‘this or that’?” Initially, it was the woman’s passion and ego that lured her into disobedience; not only did she cast aside the truth, but she also enticed her husband to do likewise. The consequences of abandoning the unshakable Word opened the door to the disease, death, and devastation mankind has been shackled with since the beginning.

That singular event was when faith in reality was destabilized, and mankind, lured by the lie that God is not the one who determines truth, felt entitled to define what’s factual and what is not.

In modernity, the same destabilization persists as in the Garden. To this day, humans embrace beliefs that contradict God-given knowledge and commands and redefine and assign moral frameworks that depart from biblical teaching as acceptable. As in the Garden, what is real and factual remains distorted, and all around us, reality continues to be crushed by deceitful assertions.

Fundamentally, the falsehood we grapple with today is identical to the original lie. Same misrepresentations, different reinterpretations. Responding to whispers in our ears, society is steeped in the corporate belief that decisions carry no consequences and that even scientific certainty is fluid and subject to personal interpretation. This is because the same serpent that showed up in the beginning still skulks around, enticing fallen flesh by inserting suggestive uncertainties into the conversation, such as: Did God ever say that gender is fixed? Did He ever say that babies in the womb are fully alive humans, worthy of life?

Lean in a little, and you can hear the voices say, “God doesn’t really mean that sex is sacred. What He meant was that as long as an individual’s personal definition of ‘love’ is acceptable, perversion is morally justifiable. In fact, based on subjective redefinition, any belief or action grounded in a man’s fallen nature is valid and socially laudable.

While it is widely agreed that the distortion of truth is a universal human issue, not a partisan invention, it is fair to say that these distortions are evident today and have become a partisan trait that appeals to those whose identity is defined by moral self-definition.

What civilization is witnessing in real time can only be described as a corporate attempt to blur the boundary between good and evil, to disqualify the right while elevating the wrong, and to erase the immutable boundaries that separate the darkness from the light. Definitions have lost meaning; reality is fragile, and truth has shifted from certainty to a debate in which the political power of propaganda is now readily accepted by those without stringent standards. Adding further confusion to the equation is a purported theological doctrine that appears to endorse the belief that God is a god of consensus, whose edicts are constantly in flux and wholly shaped by the present inclinations of fallen humanity.

The mind-bending realm the world is presently subjected to is built on fabrications in which virtue is defined solely by political persuasion; lawlessness is ethically justifiable; the line between legal and illegal is blurred; and right, wrong, and fairness qualified merely by individual opinion and sanctioned exclusively by thinking influenced by cultural narratives.

Despite “advocates who argue” that “evil good and good evil,” darkness, light, and light, darkness; bitter, sweet and sweet, bitter” (Isaiah 5:20) — this isn’t a consensus, because none of those things are in any way subjective.

Rather than clarifying the “knowledge of good and evil,” the ruse that originated at the dawn of humanity has evolved into a blurring of moral boundaries and acceptance of outright lies.

All around us are voices that claim to speak for the Creator. The lie being whispered stresses that the Tower of Babel doesn’t literally mean borders, walls, languages, or separate nations because God’s edits are not absolute, and wrong is right if the consensus deems so. In a world that trades truth for lies, facts are treated as disposable, chromosomes fluctuate, and biology is a fantasy.

This relativism now justifies framing skin color as the measure of evil and collapsing distinct ideologies like Nazism into simplified moral equivalencies.

The modern lexicon society is being subjected to has redefined the meaning of pride, ascribed to it sexual connotations, assigned fluidity to gender, and degraded the divine meaning of love. Political proclivity has elevated the creation to the point of having dominion over the Creator, demoted the life cycle from conception to viability, and made choice a right that eclipses the sanctity of life.

Redefining everything has created an inverted realm where political prejudice trumps reality. Here, debased notions of love and distorted integrity make standing for truth seem unloving. Thus, banished from paradise, humankind now struggles to coexist with a generation that dwells in grayness, where black is no longer dispelled by light and white is no longer white unless one personally deems it so.

The original lie, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4), has ushered in a living death upon the human species as a whole, making it increasingly difficult to navigate for those who have chosen to embrace God’s truth. Yet it is important to remember that truth does not become fragile because it is contested. The same Word questioned in the Garden remains unchanged. Light never negotiates with darkness; it exposes it. For those anchored in God’s revealed truth, cultural instability does not inspire dread — only fidelity.