我们为魔鬼的谎言而堕落。他最基本的策略，与亚当和夏娃一起使用的策略是让我们相信罪带来实现。但是，实际上，罪恶剥夺了我们的成就。罪不会使生活变得有趣；它使生活变得空虚。罪没有创造冒险；它钝它。罪没有扩大生命；它收缩了。罪的空虚不可避免地导致无聊。当有成就感时，当我们看到上帝时，当他真正地看到神的无休止的无休止的无休止的储备时，就变得不可能。
(We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.)
根据兰迪·阿尔科恩（Randy Alcorn）在他的书《天堂》中的说法，人类屈服于误导罪的想法。自从亚当和夏娃时代以来，魔鬼的战略一直保持不变，说服人们从事罪恶会带来满足感。但是，事实是，罪恶最终从我们的生活中剥夺了欢乐和满足，将我们的经历减少到空虚和无聊。
Alcorn强调，真正的成就来自理解和欣赏上帝，上帝提供了无限的美丽和迷恋来源。与罪恶的虚假诺言不同，与上帝的真正关系丰富了生活，消除了无聊的感觉。认识上帝的本性有助于扩大我们的经验，而不是减少它们，从而导致更加充满活力和有意义的生存。