This era of history might be one of immense economic and material prosperity; there has been virtually no threat of starvation so far for the vast throngs of people in the developed countries, and starvation is a remote concept for them; wars they obsess over occur in places located an ocean away.

Modern man feels this sentimental superiority over his recent ancestors quite unjustly; there is no reason to suppose that the tendencies of the post-moderns are somehow purified and consecrated by a democratic impulse which in fact delivers a form of social manipulation necessitated by the urgency of controlling the malleable minds of the masses; otherwise democracy fails in making us any better morally,because it's not a system designed for Morality on an individual level outside of the laws of the state.

The Chinese are not known for being religious, yet they still had internecine conflicts between themselves akin to the religious wars of Europe. Faiths like Christianity and Buddhism have strands ranging from the immovable ascetic to the conquering warrior, and anyone can interpret the Bible as he wills, which makes one wonder why!

Still others, seeing all the evil in the world around them, are tempted toward the Gnostic interpretation of Reality. But if we can assume the Demiurge is the evil entity and that the Father beyond him is the good one, we need to account for the fact that God is a totality; and since the Demiurge creates, he has to draw from this totality since he does not have the power to conceive of something new.

Therefore if we want to speak of Sophia's mistake, we might as well blame the Father for the mistake done by her, or at the very least we cannot be completely certain of His intentions.

The interpretation I lean to is that God even in His highest form has to be anthropomorphic in the sense that He has the option to choose between Good and Evil, but this naturally implies that Good and Evil precede God. These two are the pillars Reality is structured upon; so we are left with the fact that someone must have created this basic reality; and that certain behaviors coupled with certain contexts are invariably good, while others are invariably evil. But did someone somewhere really sit one day and decide for this to be the case?

Well the pillar doesn't build itself, that's for sure. But that doesn't resolve anything; what we can say with some degree of certainty is that no entity in the realm called "Reality" can operate outside this paradigm.

If God really cannot be tempted, then there is really no way for Him to even understand the thinking of a creature like Man. But if God can be tempted or even sin, then who does He sin against exactly? But it would also mean that He can understand Man with much more fidelity indeed.