Note 11 at Joh 8:34: The devil has been deceiving the world about sin since the Garden of Eden when he told Eve that through sin, she could be like God ("as gods," Ge 3:4-5). Time has proven, not only to Eve, but to each one of us, that this is not true. Sin brings death and not life (Ro 6:23). Jesus was making it clear that sin enslaves. We become slaves not only to the sin itself but also to the author of sin, the devil (Joh 8:44). We are either servants of God through obedience or servants of the devil through sin (Ro 6:16).