An Interesting Religious Concept

There is a particular branch of Satanism known as Luciferianism which takes this view in regard to the Adam and Eve story. The interpretation here is that God deliberately forbade eating from the Tree of Knowledge to keep humanity blinded, ignorant, and subservient. This left room for the serpent to free them from their chains of servitude and ignorance. The serpent freed them from this and thus gave humans the capacity for knowledge, learning, higher thought and true self sentience. Of course, the cost of humanity's higher knowledge (and morality, sentience, deeper consciousness, conplex thought processes, science and technology and all the other baggage that comes with it) may or may not have been worth it. I found this literary interpretation fascinating due to how it paints Lucifer (the original serpent) as a saviour and dammer of mankind at the same time, becoming an anti-hero for humanity instead of just a pure character of hate. This is especially prevalent if tied in with the "Paradise Lost" interpretation of Lucifer being a sympathic and tragic character.

I would like to think, that despite him knowing it would be a losing battle what he was actually trying to do was make humanity free and independent. Satan is the hero. If you look at the bible from a modern standpoint, satan looks more like someone like V from V for Vendetta than he does as the epitome of all evil. God had a totalitarian orwellian type regime and kept inposing that with his peoples and would destroy those against him with superior technology and firepower but satan despite knowing it was a losing battle did his best to free the minds of others and show that humans have free will, his conversation with Jehovah in his court in Job from a literary analysis view point wirh modern literature and understanding of civilization in mind makes u see Satan/Lucifer as the hero as he tells god that Job will decide for himself and God becomes the villain tempting job with great prosperity if he gives into his ways and stays loyal. It feels as though god is the one tempting Job with evil more than Satan is. Satan was trying to free Job so much he was willing to make him come near death to show him the truth that he was being nothing more than a slave but then he defied Satan and chose his slave master, God, as his savior instead.