Who/what is the snake?? Salvation and damnation are perhaps sides of the same coin
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"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up."
D. H. Lawrence
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The snake was Christ. The fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil was Gnosis. The Garden of Eden wasn't paradise - it was a prison cell, and YHWH was our jailer. He fears what we might become if we just remember who we are...
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Interesting interpretation. There are so many different interpretations of this particular mythos. I've even concocted an antinatalist version: The Fall was precipitated by procreation. The first born, Cain, unleashed evil upon the Earth.