Christians: What type of snake/serpent was in the garden of eden?

Question

Was it a rattle snake, cobra, python, anaconda?

Answer 1

In some Judaic apocrypha it is a flying serpent like Quetzalcoatl. In that case it would be an even greater fall for the serpent.

Answer 2

the unique internet site of the backyard of Eden is conjectural. The crucial means of figuring out its geographic area is the Bible’s description of the river “issuing out of Eden,” which thereafter divided into 4 “heads,” generating the rivers named because of the fact the Euphrates, Hiddekel, Pishon, and Gihon. (Ge 2:10-14) The Euphrates (Heb., Perath?) is definitely commonly used, and “Hiddekel” is the call used for the Tigris in historic inscriptions. the different 2 rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, whether, are unidentified. some, alongside with Calvin and Delitzsch, have argued in desire of Eden’s difficulty someplace close to the pinnacle of the Persian Gulf in decrease Mesopotamia, approximately on the area the place the Tigris and the Euphrates hold close to at the same time. They linked the Pishon and Gihon with canals between those streams. whether, this might make those rivers tributaries, fairly than branches dividing off from an unique source. The Hebrew text fabric factors, fairly, to a area interior the mountainous area N of the Mesopotamian plains, the section the place the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have their recent sources. for this reason The Anchor Bible (1964), in its notes on Genesis 2:10, states: “In Heb[rew] the mouth of the river is termed ‘end’ (Josh xv 5, xviii 19); for this reason the plural of ro?s ‘head’ ought to refer right here to the better course. . . . This latter utilization is definitely attested for the Akk[adian] cognate resu.” the undeniable fact that the Euphrates and Tigris rivers do no longer now proceed from a single source, besides because of the fact the impossibility of easily figuring out the id of the Pishon and Gihon rivers, is perhaps defined by the end results of the Noachian Flood, which easily altered significantly the topographical helpful factors of the earth, filling interior the classes of a few rivers and turning out to be others. the classic area for the backyard of Eden has long been reported to have been a mountainous section some 225 km (one hundred forty mi) SW of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers S of Lake Van, interior the jap area of recent Turkey. That Eden might have been surrounded by some organic barrier, alongside with mountains, must be reported by the undeniable fact that cherubs are reported to have been stationed in user-friendly terms on the E of the backyard, from which factor Adam and Eve made their go out.

Answer 3

The Hebrew word translated into English as "serpent" is nâchâsh. It comes from a primitive root; properly, to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; generally, to prognosticate:--X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment.

The Samaritan copy, instead of nachash, “a serpent,” reads cachash, “a liar or deceiver,”

So it wasn't an actual snake, but Satan as we see confirmed in later texts.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Answer 4

As soon as you get this one answered correctly please refer the person to me.

He would probably know where in the bible do they mention the specifics of Dinosaurs and how people in such times dealt with them.

And about Itchianna's comment on the point of asking questions you know are unanswerable-

Yes, some things are for now unanswerable like (for example)cures for certain diseases or the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Us "Non Christians" are willing to question every little trivial thing because only by scrutinous observation will we be able to find answers ...whatever they turn out to be.

We do not find it comfortable to annihilate our natural curiosity by giving into the myths of thousand year old archaic superstitions.

And yeah rest assured we are well informed on how strong your faith is and that is precisely what we find so alarming.

Answer 5

No one knows for sure, and it should not matter. He is a bit player and is not the point of the story. The serpent could have been anything.

Non Christians: What is the point of asking questions you know are unanswerable, do you really think a few words on a computer screen will shake the foundation of my beliefs. We as Christians take our faith much more seriously.

Answer 6

apparently a snake that had a future of being able to stand up straight and walk .. but since the snake convinced eve to eat the apple .. god put a curse on the snake for the rest of his life that he must now slither among the ground with the dirt ..

"thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life"



lmao

Answer 7

It was an anaconda...RAWR!!! lol it doesn't say....why ask Christians seeing as how it was a Jewish story before a Christian one...

Or even the Muslims, they have the story of Adam and Eve in the Quran too!

Answer 8

It was a serpent that did not travel on its belly until after Adam and Eve sinned!

Answer 9

The talking kind that is now only acessible through hallucinations.

I bet it was really big too; if it had a little puny voice no one would listen to it.

Answer 10

"Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on."