The best description of this example is the POV of the Gnostics such as Marcion Essentially they noticed apparant differences in God between the Old and New testaments Also they considered that the old testament God had moral failings e g deliberately putting the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden and then telling Adam and Eve not to eat anything from it and then not preventing the serpent or the various other examples of condoning incest murder etc Their conclusion was that the god of the old testament referred to as Yahweh and the God of the new testament referred to as God in Greek were not the same They further considered that not only was Yahweh evil but Yahweh is the source of all evil i e the devil They considered the serpent to be the good god Obviously this was considered a very very very dangerous and extreme heresy by the early church and their attacks on Marcion drip with vitriol 18 46 19 Nov 2004 UTC