The original lie is that God wanted to keep Adam and Eve "down" by stopping them from eating of the fruit of knowledge.
Interesting perspective and something I can't really argue against.
A lot depends upon how much truth and accuracy one wishes to grant the Old Testament (OT). Whether to take the word, the text literally or consider that such as Genesis is a rehash of the earlier Creation accounts from the Sumerians, which the Hebrews learned during their time of captivity in Babylon. Also apply that there have been a couple of translations and interpretations over the years, from the original (Ancient/Old)Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, then into English. Subtle changes in text and/or context can blur what might have been the original intention of the record.
For the moment, let's examine a text or two from Genesis. Seems few have bothered to actually provide such sources/reference.
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"Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life."(Genesis 2:7)
A short bit later we get this;
"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." (Genesis 2:15)
So it would seem that "God" created man for a purpose and that was mostly limited to be a worker, a gardener.
If we go to the earlier Sumerian texts from which the OT was derived, and given a Hebrew twist in their translation and plagiarizing, we would want to consider this from the cuneiform ;
"When the gods like men,
bore the work and suffered the toil ---
the toil of the gods was great,
the work was heavy,
the distress was much. "
In this case the gods are the Anunnaki - Those Who from Heaven to Earth came; which is how the term translates from the Sumerian into present English.
To avoid the riot and rebellion that was brewing, a solution was reached to adjust the evolution and abilities of an indigenous hominid species, part of the process including infusion of Anunnaki DNA into Homo Erectus' DNA and with some trial and error along the way, a worker species, Man, was created to take on the work and toil of the gods and ease their burden.
Humans were created to be a worker species, to literally serve the gods.
A leader god/Anunnaki known as Enki was a key principle in the process of mutating Homo Erectus into Homo Sapiens. In Sumerian records he is often symbolized by the serpent, snake. The medical emblem, caduceus*, -two snakes winding around an often winged staff- has been claimed symbolic of Enki in the early Sumerian records. Reportedly his brother Enlil, with whom he shared rule over Earth, would have later regrets about creating humans with an intelligence potential equal to the gods, and was concerned that Enki might also give the humans longevity ("immortality") similar to that which the gods/Anunnaki had.
That and other frictions between the two brothers and their factions, resulted in open conflict, at times wars, and as events moved into the present times, Enki, the Serpent, would be portrayed as the "evil opponent" of the gods(God, JHWH) who had created the contender humans who threatened to supplant the gods/Anunnaki.
What we get in the Old Testament is a mangled and garbled version of the earlier creation accounts and religious "mythology" of the Sumerians~Babylonians~Akkadians, as presented to the Hebrews by Enlil, and company, in their efforts to keep the worker (slave) humans in their place - obedient and subservient to the master Lord Gawd/JHWH.
BTW, the Anunnaki never left this Solar System. They've just shielded their existence and created layers of human wardens to manage things down here on "the Farm".
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Caduceus as a symbol of medicine - Wikipedia
