I see what you are saying, and I agree. I guess my point and my idea, which I should have made more clear was this. Here is that verse again... <blockquote>[color:blue]For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.</font color=blue> Genesis 3:5 (ESV)</blockquote>Here was my idea for how Satan kept his promise:<br><br>I think that maybe when Satan says that their eyes will be open and that they will [color:blue]"be like God,"</font color=blue> he was only trying to give them a sense of independence. Being like God, they would believe that they didn't need God and that they were the means and ends to their salvation and that God was not. Maybe kinda something like what Paul states, <blockquote>[color:blue]For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.</font color=blue> Romans 1:21-23 (ESV)</blockquote>And as time went on, they began to try and find ways to worship, hence where idols came from. Being dead in sin after the fall, there was still that desire inside to worship something. And then, man began to think of himself more and more and stopped worshiping outside things and began to worship himself. Hence the [color:blue]"images resembling mortal man"</font color=blue>. They elevated their supposed "free will" to a place where only God should be (they made it sovereign) and therefore thought themselves to be like God, just like Satan said they would. <br><br>Maybe I am just totally off, and if so, please let me know. That is just where my mind was at in that post, and where it is at even now, but I am open to changing my view if it is wrong.<br>
