Rather than being just a talking serpent as in Aesop's fables
Or being a type of Jesus?
2006-06-28 03:44:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, Damian, but Genesis never says that the Devil came in the form of a serpent. Perhaps you should re-read Genesis.
2006-06-28 03:52:39 · update #1
Sorry, Beka G, I have no idea what you are talking about? What would be Biblical? Genesis doesn't ever say it is the Devil. Do you have any *evidence* to back up your claims?
2006-06-28 04:01:33 · update #2
A keyword search on Biblegateway.com in the NIV text shows that even Paul didn't seem to connect the serpent to Satan/the Devil.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
2006-06-28 04:08:00 · update #3
racam_us, Yes, Revelation calls a dragon by the titles serpent and Satan, but it makes no specific reference back to Genesis, does it? There's also a verse calling Dan a serpent. Genesis 49:17
Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
2006-06-28 04:28:00 · update #4
There is no evidence. As far as I know the Jews don't even think the serpent was Satan.
I don't know where Christians get that information from.
2006-06-28 03:55:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, that would be biblical. However, you'd have to believe the bible is truly the word of God and isn't just something like Aesop's Fables that's been believed and passed through the generations as well.
It's really up to you what you believe, but I don't personally think Satan would have come in the form of a serpent. I mean really, let's be smart about this. Whose ever heard of a *talking animal*, even back then, wouldn't that have been just a little weird and put Eve on her guard?
2006-06-28 10:53:42 · answer #2 · answered by Beka G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you will go over to Revelation 12:9 it says: The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Then if you will read Revelation 20:2 it says: He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
This seems very plain to me and I hope it helps to answer your question. Jesus loves you.
Believe what you will, seems to me you are not very rational about this. This is something that I am not going to ponder about. I believe there are certain things that we are to worry about and other things that we are free of. We need to worry more about whether we are going to be ready when Jesus returns. God has already defeated Satan and we know God is in charge. So we should look forward with hope and expectancy and not bother ourselves with things that have no relevancy.
2006-06-28 11:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by racam_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul is the one who claimed that the serpent was Satan. Paul - who never met Jesus and never discussed law or morality with him - is the person who hijacked Christianity and tweaked it to suit himself, as he admits a few times in his exhaustive NT writings.
The people who actually wrote the Old Testament fable about the Garden of Eden - Jews - regard the serpent as a snake that represents the rebellious nature of humans, this being a natural consequence of free will.
2006-06-28 10:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says in the Genesis that the devil came to her in the form of a serpent. Believe the Bible and what it says.
2006-06-28 10:49:03 · answer #5 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan is a job description, meaning "adversary" therefore however spoke to Eve in the garden was technically a Satan.
Jewish tradition holds that it was the fallen angel Samael who was the serpent in the Garden.
2006-06-28 11:16:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋