>>719177548
You’re basically describing the Bible through a Gnostic/Promethean lens: Yahweh as a petty tribal war-god, humanity liberated by defiance, the serpent as the real bringer of wisdom. It’s a compelling inversion, and it has real historical echoes — Israel did emerge in a polytheistic world where divine councils and rival gods were taken for granted. Even the Psalms sometimes talk like that. Over time, Jewish thought narrowed into radical monotheism, claiming those “other gods” were at best lesser beings, at worst idols or demons.
The Prometheus comparison fits well: fire and knowledge as gifts stolen from the gods, at great cost, so humanity could stand on its own. But in the Genesis story, “knowledge of good and evil” isn’t technology — it’s the right to define morality itself. The Christian claim is that this isn’t liberation, it’s pride: trying to make yourself the source of truth instead of drawing from the one who made reality in the first place.
From that angle, rebellion looks powerful but is actually self-destructive — like a flame trying to break free of the fire that keeps it burning. The real question is whether God’s commands are tyranny or truth.
