Question

How does satan justify his decision to entice adam and eve to eat from the tree of knowledge? Paradise lost

Answer 1

God said that Adam and Eve may eat any fruit from any of the trees in the garden of Eden except for the tree that contains the knowledge of good and evil. Satan (disguised as a serpent) told eve that she would not die from eating that fruit, that her eyes would be opened, knowing both good and evil. But at that time eve made her decision, she did not have the knowledge of good and evil. Eve did not know that the serpent could be Satan incarnate, nor did she know that her desire to become a goddess would be a sin. Therefore Eve was enticed by the words of serpent who said that "If the fruit makes a serpent like a man, it should make men like god's."