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The Lost One
Spacemonkey is a Gnostic, and the Gnostic version is far different from the biblical version.Victor said:What in monkeys name does this have to do with the OP?
Have you read the Apocryphron of John (or the "Secret Book of John"), Victor?
According to the Gnostics, only an imperfect being, a demiurge, could possibly create an imperfect world, like our Earth. The demiurge is only a creator of the physical world, but he is not the first being. He is lesser being, an archon ("ruler"), and offspring of an aeon named Sophia (wisdom).
The Gnostics don't see eating the fruit as a bad thing at all. The Tree of Knowledge, symbolise gnosis, awareness or enlightenment. This gnosis would be the source or way to reach redemption. The demiurge didn't want redemption for the human, but ignorant slaves, so he can harvest their spark of light, which you and I would call "soul" or the "spirit of human". Eve is seen by Gnostics, past and present, to be a heroine, who almost save mankind from the demiurge.
Gee, I almost sound like a gnostic, instead of agnostic.