“Satan sought to intercept every ray of light from the throne of God. He sought to cast his shadow across the earth, that men might lose the true views of God’s character, and that the knowledge of God might become extinct in the earth…The law of Jehovah was burdened with needless exactions and traditions, and God was represented as severe, exacting, revengeful, and arbitrary… The very attributes that belonged to the character of Satan, the evil one represented as belonging to the character of God. Jesus came to teach men of the Father, to correctly represent Him before the fallen children of earth…The only way in which He could set and keep men right was to make Himself visible and familiar to their eyes. He came directly to man and became a partaker of his nature.”

E.G. White – “God made Manifest in Christ.”
Signs of the Times, 20 Jan 1890