Now that you mention it, I guess you’re right. I suppose God has his own yetzer hara.
I have a novel take on the eden story. It wasn’t that man became aware of the existence of good and evil by suddenly becoming smart, but that he asserted good and evil exists by becoming arrogant. It was the assertion that good and evil exist, not the discovery that good and evil exist.
God asked “Who told you that you are naked?” That didn’t mean “Who revealed to you that you are naked?” but instead “Who convinced you that you are naked?” or “Who told you nakedness can be either good or bad?”
Eating the fruit was the birth of religion. The fruit was more of a hallucinogenic drug rather than a brain-boost.
It was definitely the fall of man. Now he needs to eat from “the tree of the knowledge that good and evil are bullshit” to regain ground.
That’s essentially how I used to interpret the story. Now I see arrogance as the only possible sin, but I don’t know what it’s a sin against.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
The only reason to have works (good works / bad works) is to brag either to other people or to god about how righteous we are. Works done consciously are useless to salvation.
Formerly I boasted before the guys of my sins, now I boast before the lord of my good deeds. Chains of iron traded for chains of gold.
Matthew 6
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.