[ksen]

How does one hope to "get closer" to someone by a direct definance of their law?

By being convinced by someone who is "more subtle than any beast of the field."

[RnMomof7]

But he did not tell them that this would make them more loved or closer to God..but rather they would be LIKE gods..

Rom 1:32  *** Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death**, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

(   Gen 3:3   But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,** neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.**)


Man carries that mark

Eze 28:2   Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: