Artificial intelligence is certainly an interesting analogy. We wouldn't give the AI advice, though, so much as programming, but we're supposed to be punished for our programming and freedom, for our "original sin." Regardless of the advice the creator gives, if thousands of years are allowed to pass by, the advice is bound to be distorted, misinterpreted, or forgotten.

There are lots of reasons not to take ancient religious scriptures literally. For one thing, politics enters into religion. For another, "literal truth" is another way of speaking of objective truth, which is defined by science and is thus godless by definition (due to methodological naturalism).