In which case why is it referred to as a serpent then as well?
2007-09-19 11:26:37 · 21 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gerry, lizards and serpents are both types of reptile.
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2007-09-19 11:40:32 · update #1
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/268.asp
2007-09-19 11:48:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The serpent was a snake that had legs and arms. It was able to stand upright. But when the snake tempted Eve to bite the apple and take it to Adam for him to eat, GOD made the serpent/snake to slither on the ground on it's belly for the rest of its life. (That is why all snakes slither on the ground.)
2007-09-19 11:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by †Evonne† 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. If it had been a lizard the Bible would have called it a lizard. The scriptures never err. I suspect that before God cursed it, the serpent moved much like the snake in Q-Bert.
2007-09-19 11:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who knows?
The Aztecs thought that at least some snakes once had feathers and that they flew.
As for your nit picking at words, I noticed that a legless lizard (yes, there are such a thing -- see links below) are still referred to as "lizards" by scientists, NOT as "snakes", so why wouldn't a four legged snake still be called a serpent?
2007-09-19 11:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Serpent is a collective term I believe referring to Satan as a dragon sometimes . That is my belief I also don't find lizard anywhere else in the Bible so there is no real reason to believe that they whould have made the distinction between an iguana,lizard, alligator or snake it's just serpent
2007-09-19 11:33:45 · answer #5 · answered by alright11 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lizard is a reptile and a serpent is a snake
2007-09-19 11:38:54 · answer #6 · answered by Gerry 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The line I'd been fed was that snakes were what became of the dinosaurs when God lopped off their legs. But ostensibly, given the context in which the passage had been written and the fact that no description of it anywhere sounds even remotely dinosaur-like, it was actually probably supposed to imply snakes as we already know them, but with arms and legs like a Chinese or ancient Toltec/Incan dragon.
2007-09-19 11:33:27 · answer #7 · answered by uncleclover 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Back in that age, a serpent actually had legs.
2007-09-19 11:30:34 · answer #8 · answered by CBS Network fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The serpent in Genesis 3 is an ambiguous creature. in one comprehend, that is purely the snake, between the animals made via God, and its actual features and habit are defined in Genesis 3:14-15. right here, in accordance with people thoughts, the serpent is represented as a crafty creature that motives situation and is punished. it may additionally talk. whether, the serpent in Eden probable additionally represents a demythologised version of what replaced into as quickly as a far greater significant being. Archaeologists have printed that the serpent replaced into broadly commemorated in Egypt and the close to East, no longer least in Canaan. there replaced into additionally at one time a cult of the serpent in Israel, as confirmed via the bronze serpent that is stated in the Bible to have as quickly as stood in the Temple at Jerusalem. This serpent replaced into destroyed via King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4). The serpent replaced into seen by using fact the bringer of existence, by using fact it replaced into in a position to shed and renew its dermis in line with annum: in accordance to the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, it won this capability via eating the paranormal plant of immortality. The creature replaced into extremely linked with fertility, and fertility goddesses are many times shown observed via serpents. that is been stated that "Eve", the call of the 1st female in the biblical account, is on the subject of a observe for snake, and that she replaced into initially a serpent goddess of existence and fertility. In historical custom, the serpent is likewise a greater sinister being that is linked with the underworld and its waters. in the Bible and someplace else, the adverse monster that embodies primal chaos is many times defined as a serpent. while the author of Revelation pointed out "that historical serpent" with the devil or devil (Revelation 12:9), he standard this manifestation of the serpent by using fact the enemy of God.
2016-12-26 18:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It lost it's legs to evolution.
Before that serpents feet were a delicacy.
They were used as good luck charms but after what happened nobody thought they were very lucky anymore and switched to rabbits feet.
2007-09-19 11:37:32 · answer #10 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I would say it was probably like the sort of serpent you would think of if you thought of a Chinese serpent dragon. you know long with scales and arms and legs with the black goatee thing. lol. but the Bible and Christianity demonized it and chopped off its legs and made this little story up to make it seem like Ancient Chinese religions were evil. They have demonized numerous religions/places/holidays to benefit their religion so it would not surprise me.
2007-09-19 11:46:26 · answer #11 · answered by Lorena 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋