Fake News

Fake news. It’s kind of a catchy phrase that’s been showing up in the media for about a year now. Is fake news new? Actually it’s not. It’s been around a long time, and it always has the potential for leading people astray. I want to examine that in this article.

How long a history does fake news have? From a biblical point of view it goes back to the beginning of time, and the echo of that fake news is still reverberating today. Let’s see how. In Genesis 2, we find God giving Adam a tour of the Garden of Eden along with some good news and bad news. This bad news will become the source of the...