Usually we assume that the only way we can know the truth is if we perceive if with our own sense. (Think of the saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”) But what the Fall into Sin makes clear is that the devil also uses our senses to deceive us about the true reality.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).