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>You're dealing in straight dogma.
Let me know when you're done bathing in irony.
Lucifer is the Serpent in the Garden.
The Serpent is an old occult symbol that depicts Wisdom.
That Serpent taught Man about the Garden, why Man was brought to it, taught him how to use Language (or maybe it should be a more ambiguous interpretation, but that's not important right now) and taught him how about "good and evil".
This isn't the only time this process has happened. There were many other figures which did something very similar.
I don't deal in dogma. I'm just trying to zero in on an amalgamated perspective that gives us an overarching perspective that would be ideal to take away from learning all of the important parts.
Understanding why these stories are important to unravel seems very important. You're just getting caught up on one minor detail.
>Because if we get into apocrypha, we also run into the reality that monotheism was a latter "upgrade" to Christianity and Jesus applied largely under the Roman consolidation of Christian theology.
Pretty much. Monotheism is pretty rare.