Or there is the other thing...
...the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
--Genesis 3:4a-5
What does it tell me?... That satan knows how to appeal to the religion pique in the human soul caused by the absence of Life in the human spirit. That pique is founded in the human pride which says ‘I’m not really so bad, I do good things just not all the time ‘cause I’m the way God made me, flawed.’ God gives every human a spirit as descendants from Adam. Sadly, Adam chose to follow his pride and the glow of God’s righteousness departed from his spirit leaving him with a living soul and a dead spirit therein. The spirit is made for one life to animate it, God Life. The yrge to have religion is caused by the dead spirit juxtaposed with an alive, sinning soul.
Or there is the other thing...
...the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
--Genesis 3:4a-5