Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. (Phil 2:5-7)
Adam and Eve’s temptation was to be like God. They fell. Jesus temptation was to be like God. He didn’t fall. We are tempted in the same manner as He was. Even though we, as new creations, are in the form of God, we are almost daily enticed by the imposter to return to the tree of good and evil and behold and judge life by appearance and strive to better ourselves to be like God. Pleasing to God is, however, to walk in faith in the likeness of men appreciating that we are once and for all perfected though one sacrifice.
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