The Modern Serpent: Lies in the Age of Opinion
Redefining everything has created an inverted realm where political prejudice trumps reality.
Jeannie DeAngelis | February 19, 2026
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.more
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