To be like G-d

When the serpent (which I doubt was a talking snake, which probably was an angelic being of some sort) said to Eve in Genesis 3:4-5: “You will not surely die. For G-d knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like G-d, knowing good and evil” (NKJV).

What convinced Eve to eat? The thought that she would be "like G-d." Somehow the serpent made the prospect to be "like G-d" more appealing to her than choosing to obey G-d's only command to not eat of that tree. Basically He said: I am giving you EVERYTHING: all the animals are under your control; the Garden is peaceful; I will walk with you and talk with you. But obey this ONE thing: do not eat the fruit of this one tree. He never told them not to touch it, as Eve tells the serpent; He simply says don't eat it...

Gen 1: 26-28 - Then G-d said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So G-d created man in His own image; in the image of G-d He created him; male and female He created them. Then G-d blessed them, and G-d said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (NKJV). Read Genesis 1-3

But in Eve's pursuit, and then Adam's, to be like G-d ~ they ate. The irony is they were already like G-d; He created them in His image...but He created them to be close to Him, to choose Him instead of the only thing He forbade.

That idea is hummmmmmmmmmmming in my head: that we choose to want to be "like G-d" by trying to be in control, run our own lives, run other people's lives, fix people, fix situations, insanely trying to make things fit when they don't...all to our own liking, thinking we know better than G-d because we are "like Him" after all--not that we consciously think "I am like G-d so there"--but it's built-in to our thinking. But instead His desire is that we realize He is in control, He knows exactly what needs to be done and we don't always know best because our minds are clouded with what we "think" is best...and all He ever wants is for us to choose to be close to Him...