Indeed the Scripture says, “Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’ ” (Genesis 3:4, 5, emphasis mine). Also, it is a universal Christian belief that Satan’s great sin was seeking to be godlike through pride: “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your
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