Genesis 3:14: "And the LORD God said unto the serpent... dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life"
I've been giving my pet snake dust, but he won't eat it. The people at the pet store tell me he'll only eat small rodents.
So, did God decide that snakes could eat real food like mice and hamsters? I can't seem to find that part anywhere in the Bible, and I don't want God to smite me for feeding the wrong type of food to my snake.
2007-09-29 08:49:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mine likes to nibble sand ... but I had to change it to woodchips
because it chokes them !
he does prefer mice
2007-09-29 08:51:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God took Satans legs from him for ruining Adam and Eve
It means you will lose your legs and be so close to the ground that you cant help but to consume dust as you slither around.
Let me guess, you're either a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist
2007-09-29 08:51:46 · answer #2 · answered by Larry The Don ® 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is literal. Snakes take in dust particles along with odor particles on the fork of their tongue. They pull them into the roof of their mouth to the Jacobson organ. This organ then interprets the data (much like our ears do with sound waves) so they know their surroundings.
2014-03-16 11:30:35 · answer #3 · answered by WB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The serpent walked upright, and God instantly removing its legs is not evolution, it is a punishment. Eating dust simply means that the serpent will crawl on its belly with its face in the dirt.
2016-05-17 04:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasnt the serpeant standing before God. Maybe they eat dust now because he made them slither on the bellys face down in the ground.
2007-09-29 08:52:20 · answer #5 · answered by DaisyDUke22 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its a type of metaphor,meaning they will always crawl on the ground.The snake is a metaphoric for Satan,also meaning that satan cannot be saved.This was the beginning of sin.
2007-09-29 09:02:28 · answer #6 · answered by debi jean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, it's like your performance here in the thinking department...if it were a race, you'd be eating serious dust...
think of it more as a quality of your life and your snake's...to always be eating dust as others leave you waaaaaaaay behind....
2007-09-29 08:52:23 · answer #7 · answered by chieko 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to kill and digest their prey snakes actually do have to ingest dust and dirt also during the whole process.
2007-09-29 08:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
lol sounds like it is referring to having no legs and having a face in proximity to the ground. I'm really just guessing though
2007-09-29 08:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by Random Nickname 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're pathetic, you have absolutely no idea as to how to take the Bible contextually.
You're not to take the entire Bible literally, it's the moral of the stories that count.
2007-09-29 08:52:07 · answer #10 · answered by impaKt 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋