Genesis 3:5

For God doth know... your eyes shall be opened.

The father of lies declares that, instead of dying as. consequence of eating of the forbidden tree, and thus disobeying God, those who eat are made as gods in knowing the distinction between good and evil. He tells half. truth, and thus gives. lie the semblance of the truth, the most dangerous kind of lying. He declares also that God knows that the eating will be for their advantage, and is therefore selfishly restraining them.

Be as gods.

The serpent makes. false promise. God knew good as well as evil, from absolute knowledge, without experience of the evil, and without taint from it. Man can only know it by its pollution and the experience of its consequences. The tempter's appeal to man is to seek forbidden knowledge,. temptation that is repeated at some time to almost every mortal. "The serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety"-- 2 Corinthians 11:3.