God, Humans, Techne

While according to the prevailing popular interpretation of 'knowledge of good and evil' in Genesis 3 as 'having sex', the text supports a Promethean reading of it, i. e. that it signifies a divine power that Adam and Eve steal.  For, despite the lowly status of the serpent in the episode, its characterization, at 5, that upon acquisition of that knowledge, Adam and Eve "shall be as God", is echoed by God himself a little later, at 22, that they "have become one of us", which is also notable for the plural pronoun at the end.  Furthermore, reflecting the making of the girdles by Adam and Eve, at 21, God made for them "garments of skins, and clothed them."  So, the details of the passage support the interpretation that, like Prometheus, Adam and Eve steal a divine power--Techne, i. e. Know-How--and use it for Work, i. e. for manufacturing that fulfills a Need.  Thus, the Theological interpretation of the Work-Leisure relation as that of Punishment-Salvation--the Sin being having forbidden sex--is not supported by the text that is purported to ground it.  Rather, it reads more like a parent kicking children out of the house because they are now capable of taking care of themselves.  On that basis, Leisure is a condition of childhood, and, hence, is conceived as Salvation by only a childish doctrine.