You will be as God?

<p>You will be as God? Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image (selem – a representation, resemblance), after our own likeness (mut – as us, like us). There are significant differences in the two words, however this statement ‘You will be as God’, or ‘like God’ was declared from the beginning by both Lucifer and God. The first we hear this statement is from out of the mouth of the serpent in the garden of Eden.  Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said, Death will not certainly come to you: For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as God, having knowledge of good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband. </p> <p>Those tempting words from the place of darkness provoked a hidden longing in the heart of humanity to be like God. The very same hidden longing to ‘be as God’ had already been consummated within the heart of pride within Lucifer and was now being passed on to humanity, his greatest rival among created beings. Isaiah 14:12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground--mighty though you were against the nations of the world. For you said to yourself, "I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne and rule the angels. I will preside on the Mount of the north, the place of the heavenly council. I will climb to the highest heavens. I will be as the Most High." But instead, you will be brought down to the pit of hell, down to its lowest depths.</p> <p>This aspiration to be ‘like God’ or ‘as God’ is something that is pursued by those who walk in great darkness as well as those who walk in great light. It was said first in the Book of Genesis by the serpent where ‘being as God’ is connected to possessing the knowledge of good and evil whereby each person redefines the meaning of good and bad as being what is good or bad for them personally. However ‘b