The serpent said "you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:4,5)
Adam was the first to be tempted by the notion that he could "be like God" (Genesis 3:5), which is the essence of the self-centred worldview that Satan promotes. Satan has seduced millions into believing that they are God. The New Age Movement is promoting this lie on a grand and international scale.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh (2 Corinthians 4:11)
When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth (John 16:13)
Do not hold back discipline from the child (Proverbs 23:13).
Do not turn to mediums or spiritualists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them (Leviticus 19:31)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (James 1:2,3)
There certainly are a lot of distractions, diversions, disappointments, trials, temptations and traumas, which come along to disrupt the process of becoming the person God wants you to be. Every day you struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil, each of which are opposed to your success at being God's person.
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you (John 14:27).
Help me, O LORD my God. With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD (Psalm 109:26,30)
Nancy was a college student with an inability to express the anger and resentment she felt. "My roommate gets to the point sometimes where she just explodes emotionally to let off steam. I have deep feelings too, but I'm not sure that a Christian is supposed to let off steam."
The Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1)
Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God (James 1:19,20)