Who can be God’s equal?

Isaiah 14:13-14 quotes Lucifer desiring to be like the most high God, a desire which itself disqualifies him from ever holding this status. Geoffrey Grogan explains it this way:

It is a strange paradox that nothing makes a being less like God than the urge to be his equal, for he who was God stepped down from the throne of his glory to display to the wondering eyes of men the humility of God (Phil 2:5-8).¹

1. Geoffrey W. Grogan, The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Isaiah-Ezekiel, vol. 6, Expositor’s Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1986), 106. [↩]