king, Satan declared, “I will make myself like the Most High” (Isa. 14:14). Later, the Satan-inspired serpent told Eve, “When you eat of it [the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God” (Gen. 3:5). Eve and then Adam, without regard for God’s command, acted on this belief: “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate,
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