8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. 9 Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again? 10 You are observing special days, and months, and seasons, and years. 11 I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.
The Creator God knows his creatures, already since from he had created them, even if the creatures didn't know him (as Pagans or sinners).
But Paul is saying that God only NOW is knowing them - the Jews addressed by Paul as adorers of the stoicheia.
It follows that before that moment, the Jews were known by a god different from the God of Paul.
Therefore Paul hated the god of the Jews as merely one of the “beings that by nature are not gods”. □
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,
The one who subjected the creation to frustration cannot be a mere fallen angel as Satan. But YHWH himself, the creator god. Therefore Paul is saying that the origin of evil is caused by the god of the Jews.
What is the origin of the Gnostic hate against the god creator?
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
In the face of inexplicable and extreme personal suffering, the biblical Job refuses to turn on the God who gave him life: “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). His property and children are destroyed, his body is inflicted with sores. Job’s wife appears and insists that Job ought to “curse God and die” (Job 2:9). She isn’t given a name and she’s never mentioned in the Bible again, but she’s the prototypical adherent of what author and associate professor of English Bernard Schweizer calls “misotheism.” She is “ready to curse God in open defiance and willing to be damned rather than acquiesce in divine caprice” (29). She believes in God yet denounces him
