Christ and Satan make their appeal to man from the same basis. They both assume his correspondence with the Divine nature and his capacity for Divine fellowship. God-likeness is recognised as his destiny. Satan prevailed in Eden by assuring man that he should be as God; Jesus opened His ministry with the promise that His followers should be perfect as the Father in Heaven. “Ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil,” whispered Satan; “Ye shall be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” is the still larger promise of the Son of God. This coincidence provokes the inquiry, Is it possible man can be as God? Is this a lie on the lips of the Tempter, and mere hyperbole on the lips of Jesus?