What was he doing during the time period in-between?
2007-10-03 07:47:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ROLFMAO! don't make me laugh like that in my office - i look like a fool now!!!!
but the answer is........it was probably the same thing that the donkey was doing between the bible and shrek! (and only YOU know the answer to that one)
2007-10-03 07:51:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
The serpent in Genesis 3 is an ambiguous creature. In one respect, it is simply the snake, one of the animals made by God, and its physical characteristics and behaviour are explained in Genesis 3:14-15. Here, in accordance with folk tales, the serpent is represented as a cunning creature that causes trouble and is punished. It can also speak. However, the serpent in Eden probably also represents a demythologised version of what was once a much more significant being. Archaeologists have revealed that the serpent was widely venerated in Egypt and the Near East, not least in Canaan. There was also at one time a cult of the serpent in Israel, as demonstrated by the bronze serpent that is reported in the Bible to have once stood in the Temple at Jerusalem. This serpent was destroyed by King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4). The serpent was seen as the bringer of life, because it was able to shed and renew its skin annually: according to the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh, it acquired this ability through eating the magical plant of immortality. The creature was particularly associated with fertility, and fertility goddesses are often shown accompanied by serpents. It has been suggested that "Eve", the name of the first woman in the biblical account, is related to a word for snake, and that she was originally a serpent goddess of life and fertility. In ancient tradition, the serpent is also a more sinister being that is associated with the underworld and its waters. In the Bible and elsewhere, the hostile monster that embodies primal chaos is frequently described as a serpent. When the author of Revelation identified "that ancient serpent" with the Devil or Satan (Revelation 12:9), he established this manifestation of the serpent as the enemy of God.
2016-04-07 02:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe he had a several century stint in a Greek temple working as a soothsayer.
Many non-Abrahamic religions considered the snake to be a very holy animal.
It could bite its own tail and represent infinity.
It appeared wise, with unblinking eyes (like an owl).
Priestesses would lay among the snakes and listen to their predictions of the future.
2007-10-03 08:47:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, it's not easy for talking reptiles to get work, you know? How often does a gig like the Budweiser frogs or the Geico Gecko come along?
2007-10-03 07:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure I recall Moses strutted around Egypt with a giant snake. Coincidence?
2007-10-03 07:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by David V 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Learning to speak English.
2007-10-03 07:57:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it took a genius like Walt Disney to recognize his public appeal.
2007-10-03 07:53:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I'm glad that he made a comeback in the animated Disney Robin Hood movie, too.
2007-10-03 07:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
LOL-ROTFLMBO!!! he probably was just hanging out still in the Garden of Eden, chillin'---then when the funds got low from his Bible royalties, he figured he better go get a J.O.B.
btw: thank you for my laugh today!!!!! that was cute.
ADD: i like Riegan's answer, too!!! just what were *YOU* doing, Dohn-kay???
2007-10-03 07:53:03 · answer #9 · answered by ddking37 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was, you know, laying low. Forced to eat dust and crawl on his belly. Subjugated, so it were. Thank goodness he rose up to make Kipling's works.
2007-10-03 07:51:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋