>>54552753>>54552765if you need a bit more insight, the Garden of Eden story and man’s original sin all took place during the Old Testament. Where God casts Adam & Eve out of paradise and thus began humanity after Eve gives birth to Cain and Abel. And then God proceeds to do the Old Testament things and be otherwise a cruel god that smites and kills a bunch of people. Then in the New Testament, down comes Jesus as mankind’s savior and God becomes all-loving.
To reconcile this issue of God basically being a dick before Jesus happened, they said the Old Testament Hebrew God was a separate entity from Jesus. A false god that created the physical world (Book of Genesis) and creates illusions, the Demiurge. This gets into Christian Gnosticism.
>he believes that he is the only god and his works are all that are. He forces men to submit to his will and blinds them with the illusions that are our "reality". Jesus comes from the true world to share gnosis (knowledge, enlightenment) with mankind so that we can see through the illusion that the demiurge - the Hebrew god - pulls over our eyes.Now we already have essentially the Christian God Arceus in Pokemon, but Arceus doesn’t look like its related to anything going on in Gen 9 and generally fits the bill of the benevolent New Testament God. But how about another pokemon god supposedly alters the physical world and also shares the same abilities Arceus does? Ring any bells?
The fact we got the professor trying to make the Garden of Eden paradise, Kieran’s whole story trying to parallel the fall of man and the forbidden fruit, and now the Hebrew Pokemon God that started all of this in the first place sounds like too many coincidences. Hell, maybe Dokutaro is supposed to be the analogue to Satan or something, who took on the form of a snake to offer the forbidden Dipplin.
