Your earlier reply got me thinking over night and talking this morning. 
You referred to the notion of theosis and wrote: "I thought the point of the Chistian life was to become more and more like God." Well, which God? The father, the son, or the Holy Spirit, or all together? That's the issue. The problem is that many Christians including me use God and the father in an inter-exchangeable fashion. So, my reference was to God the Father and Lucifer’s aka our attempt to replace him. When I referred to the Holy Spirit as a counter-power to Satan then out of an economical perspective on the Trinity where there is a hierarchy and the Father is at its top. I guess there are other interpretations of the Trinity especially for Evangelicals like the Pentecostals. These differences might be the reason for many of the misunderstandings among today’s Christians. 
Most importantly, however it should be emphasized that Christianity needs to understand that the victory of God over fear, sin and death, accomplished in the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus is the significant development from Old to New Testament. The holy life of a Christian, given in Jesus Christ to the believer through the Holy Spirit, is expressed through the struggles of this life, increasing in the experience of knowledge of God, and consummated in the resurrection of the believer. Well, I might be preaching to the choir – like so often. I cannot wait for your deconstruction of Trinity.