At what age should we teach this to our children?

Question

If you are reading a book, and it has a talking animal in it, it is fiction and should not be taken seriously.

Apparently, many Americans have difficulty grasping this concept.

And, yes, I am referring to the talking snake in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 1

i think that the sooner the better

Answer 2

First of all, your question shows you have no knowledge of the actual story, and that would be because the Christians didn't include it when they stole the Torah from the Jews (and yes, that's what they did - then they CHANGED it, and now it is called the Old Testament, which actually has over 30,000 changes in it from the original Torah which the Jews STILL have). In fact, the Christian church burned the rest of the Jewish Torah at the stake after actually holding a TRIAL for it! For a book!! LOLOL ignorant idiots.

Now, here is the story on the snake: The snake spoke because it was not an animal. It walked on two legs, and was a type of a man, not an animal. It was actually a pre-Adamic type of human/animal cross.

It was not given a higher level of soul, just the animal soul that all animals have - rather than the higher level of soul that is given in addition to the animal soul to human beings.

The animal soul is the actual energy our bodies have that serves as our "survivial instinct" and what keeps our bodies actually functioning - heart, lungs, blood flowing, urge to eat, drink, procreate, etc. The higher level soul is our human consciousness which animals don't have. There are several levels of soul in Judaism - again, something that the Christians tossed out when they started their new religion.

The snake, called Nachash in Hebrew, was extremely intelligent, but had no conscious as it did not have the higher level of soul. It was basically a human/animal cross with the intelligence of a man.

No, you haven't heard this, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't existed for millennia in the original texts and which the Christians chose to burn at the stake and not give their followers the actual information they need. And this is only one small example of that happening. Like I said, there are over 30,000 changes in the Christian Old Testament from the original Torah of the Jews - which is basically unchanged, look at the Dead Sea Scrolls book of Isaiah and the other books there from thousands of years ago and compare it to what is in the Torah today that the Jews still have, and they are virtually the same.

So, there is a lot more to all of this than you or most Christians know - don't stand for being fed ignorant misinformation, go and learn what the real story is from the original source, the Jews who got it directly from God on Mt. Sinai.

Many today believe this example (among many, many others) speaks about scientific experiments in genetics and cloning, etc. that was probably existant thousands and thousands of years ago, and then lost through some catastrophe or other reasons.

Answer 3

I guess in this day and age, kids are so cut off from nature that they never see real animals? I think kids like to talk to animals, and there is some communication going on between animal and people, playing, protecting, empathy etc., I think that babies and kids should be a little exposed to animals, then they will know exactly what kind of communication there is. And if you have a kid asking if an animal from a book can really talk, that's the time to tell them.

Answer 4

parrots everywhere are offended. Not to mention Mr Ed. geicco lizard. etc.etc.

God worked more openly then than he does now. It was the road to Damascus that this happened. To show the worst of the sinners that God was talking to him and give him the proof as that atheist needed. God chose to use the donkey to talk and get Saul to believe. If that was not enough god made Saul blind till he found Ananias in a town three days away and that he would heal him.

Answer 5

Genesis has a talking snake and should not be taken seriously. What to teach our children is certainly a touchy subject.

Answer 6

3 years.

Answer 7

I think the bible should be X rated, and should not be in the hands of anyone under the age of 18, especially a female.
Everyone knows that animals can't speak verbal human language, exept for parrots, correct me if I got the wrong bird.

Answer 8

How do we know it wasn't a story about a Parrot? At my IQ level, I don't go around saying everyone beneath me I talk to is a talking "ape" simply because they can't grasp the realities of belief, now do I? How many on here do you see putting you down just because you haven't bothered to inform YOURSELF of things of faith? Judge not that you shall not be judged........, oh sorry, didn't mean to bring up wisdoms of a fairy tale......

Answer 9

I don't think children should be taught religion until they're old enough to question their elders.

usually a child takes everything a parent or teacher says to heart without question till about the age of 14-16

Answer 10

As soon as they are old enough to grasp the difference between what is real and what isn't and some children pick that up earlier than others.

Answer 11

Yes, I like Animal Farm and Charlotte's Web too but not enough to believe that that kind of stuff goes on at farms.