Could the usual good-guy and bad-guy roles be flipped?

It can be an interesting way to read a myth, but the figures being compared do different things in different traditions. Prometheus is often associated with bringing fire to humans. The Christian devil is generally portrayed as a tempter or adversary, not as a straightforward giver of knowledge and freedom. The resemblance is worth exploring, but it doesn't prove that one tradition is secretly telling the opposite story.

I’d separate religious ideas from the institutions and leaders that use them. Religious teachings can be used to justify obedience and social control, but they have also inspired resistance to unjust authority. Christianity is varied across eras and communities, so calling the whole thing either liberating or controlling misses a lot.

There’s a good philosophical question underneath this: is breaking a rule automatically evil if it gives people more agency? But freedom can also bring responsibility, uncertainty, and harm. A story can make the rule-breaker sympathetic without making every rule, or every act of rebellion, wrong.