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.
Read from my blog: https://www.roadlesstraveled.online/post/wanting-the-one-thing-we-cannot-have-adam-eve
