Somtimes we learn little things from passages we’ve looked at many times before. This one comes from Genesis 3:4-5
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
There are lots of distortions that Satan presents to Eve and Adam in this text. I want to look at just one. The payoff that Satan claims will arise from eating the fruit – that they will be “like God” – is already theirs. Made in his image they are.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Gen 2:27)
A small thing that the ESV study notes put well
The couple, unlike the serpent, has been made in the image of God (1:26–27). In this way they are already like God. Moreover, being in the image of God, they are expected to exercise authority over all the beasts of the field, which includes the serpent.