Note 11 at Jn. 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"--Gen. 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 (Rom. 6:23). Jesus is making it clear that sin enslaves. We become slaves not only to the sin itself, but also to the author of sin, who is the devil (Jn. 8:44; Rom. 6:16). We are either servants of God through obedience or servants of the devil through sin.