Wanting The One Thing We Cannot Have (Adam + Eve)

Ezekiel 28:17, “Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.”

Lucifer apparently became so impressed with his own beauty, intelligence, power, and position that he began to desire for himself the honor and glory that belonged to God alone. The sin that corrupted Lucifer was self-generated pride.

Apparently, this represents the actual beginning of sin in the universe—*preceding the fall of the human Adam by an indeterminate time*. Sin originated in the free will of Lucifer in which—with a full understanding of the issues involved—he chose to rebel against the Creator.

(https://www.christianity.com/theology/theological-faq/how-did-lucifer-fall-and-become-satan-11557519.html)

“Then God said, 'Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them *rule* over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.' So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and *subdue* it; and *rule over* the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'” (Other versions say *take dominion*)

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:26-28‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/2692/gen.1.26-28.NASB2020

In thinking this over, I never really thought about how in order to be the snake in the garden, sin had to obviously enter the universe BEFORE Adam and Eve were made.

What's striking me today is that they were created with the purpose of ruling and tending to the earth. A position of stewardship but also dominion. A strong position, wired with a prospensity for “the thrill of the chase,” complete with physiological dopaminergic mechanisms to get the job done, to accomplish what their task was.

When Lucifer comes along, he appeals to that innate need of a human to dominate and rule things, and twists it ever so slightly. They had an instinct of curiosity, of dominion and progress and improvement already. He just tapped into that and re-routed it slightly.