"When you eat the forbidden fruit you will be like God," says the devil

Genesis 3:5

"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

The devil, that ten-headed hydra who is more unlike God than any creature we can imagine, says to Eve, "When you eat the forbidden fruit, you will be like God." Of all the devil's lies this is surely the most preposterous one. How can he who is a murderer and a liar in whom there is no truth tell us that we will be like God?

The whole thing would be laughable, were it not for the fact that that lie appeals to us in a strange and powerful and undeniable way. But we must remember who it is that prompts us thus. It is the serpent.

The devil was the first to fall because of his desire to be like God. He who was once the most beautiful and glorious of all God's creatures, is today the most miserable, angry and lost of them all and he wants to rob us of the peace and joy that are ours in Christ Jesus.