Maybe ‘Satan’ was just a symbol of something - an idea -that unsophisticated people could grasp; and not anything real in itself.
We need to be afraid of what is inside of us and of our own making; not what we imagine is Outside and out to ‘get us’.
No, I don’t think you have it right.
What we need to do is worship God who created everything and gave us life, and who sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins and then rise again in the flesh.