schillingklaus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:51 amProper gnostics proved that YHWH and his henchmen acted maliciously in Genesis 3 due to his envy for Adam. Judaizers like Ireneus exonerated YHWH (identifying him with The Father) and illogically charged the serpent (then identified absurdly with Satan, Beliar, Baalzaphon, Lucifer, and what not) with envy. Tertullian blew a similar trumpet.
"Proper gnostics proved that
YHWH and his henchmen..."
Was
Yahweh ever so named, explicitly? The god of the Jerusalem Temple
specifically. If not, why assume that god "proven"?
Everyone is blinded even deranged by the false supposition of Monotheism. It was not; therefore, avoid that pitfall. On the contrary, Ialdabaoth is rather transparently the ancient Judeo-Egyptian
Horon (or: a late expression of THAT god, as 'Artificer), a 'Second Power' who is not the true Father. (Whether YHWH is or is not considered the 'True Father' is a separate question.) Older Horon was conflated w/ Yahu c.600-400 BC, but that doesn't mean the ancient Semite god disappeared everywhere immediately. Or that a later separation was impossible in the future.
Horon (symbolized as a Sphinx) was both a curing god & destroying god: he was also represented by the Lion-faced Serpent in some quarters, betraying varied natures. Some Egyptian Semites (Judeo-Phoenician Canaanite descendents) would have recognized him as their problematic Creator, c.400 BC, and there was a merging in
Genesis. Horon is not identical w/ YHWH, but more appropriately reappears -- under different names -- as the (sometimes) 'Bad Face' of a synthesized dual-natured, evolving 'Jewish' Deity (c.600-350 BC). Derivations of Judeo-Egyptian
Horon of that period are much more complex than what I've just touched on here, however.
The Destroying Angel (i.e. a demoted god, formerly Horon) became rebel Satan when, exactly? I suppose after 150 BC, and I doubt everyone accepted that immediately, too.
Horon/Melqart/Herakles is identified w/ "Satan" by a few scholars; this isn't my idea.