When the woman listened to the snake ’s clever lies , she was deceived. Her thoughts were led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ, the Word of God, Who was abiding in her. (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). The woman became blind to the reality, as a consequence of listening to the snake’s clever lies. Once she listened to the snake , she started to doubt the truth. Doubt appears as a consequence of losing clarity . This losing of clarity ( initial moments of confusion) and the resulting doubt s of the Divine Truth are the first and second sign s of spiritual blindness. When spiritual blindness occurs, we start to see things humanly , and not spiritually , or rather “not as they really are” . We start to use human reasoning rather than the Divine Truth as the standard of our judgments. On the other hand, t he Divine Truth, the Word of God , helps us to “ see things as they really are ” ( Hebrews 4:12-13 ) . Where there is clarity, there is