Seduction

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The deliberate enticement or persuasion of someone into the abandonment of godly principles. Scripture speaks of both sexual and spiritual seduction.

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Sexual seduction

Warnings to avoid temptation

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Examples of enticement

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The law as a deterrent

Exodus 22:16–17 LEB
“ ‘If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price to have her as his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he will weigh out money according to the bride price for the virgin.
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Resisting temptation

Job 31:1 LEB
“I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?
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Spiritual seduction

Through Satan

Genesis 3:1 LEB
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
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Through lying spirits and false prophets

1 John 4:1 LEB
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Through false teachers

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The need for vigilance

1 Thessalonians 5:21–22 LEB
but examine all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
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The process of seduction

A thought planted

Genesis 3:2–3 LEB
The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die’.”
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An advantage promised

Genesis 3:4–5 LEB
But the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die. For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil.”
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Attraction

Genesis 3:6 LEB
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.
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Persistence on the part of the seducer

Matthew 4:8–9 LEB
Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him, “I will give to you all these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
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Yielding

Genesis 3:6 LEB
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.
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