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1 | Was the serpent satan or just a serpent? | Gen 3:1 | Makarios | 44652 | ||
Greetings chynna! God created all of the animals, plants and living things, and He saw that it was all very good! (Genesis 1:31) So, if everything is 'very good', including the serpent, then how was the serpent able to have the knowledge of good and of evil? Yes, the serpent may have been the "craftiest beast", but it was just called 'good' in verse 1:31! The answer is that there was something else there, another presence, who could both speak and reason on the level of man, which is a reasoning and understanding that is greater than the animals (Psalm 32:9). And the only 'presence' that would dare to usurp God's 'good' creation or have an agenda to thwart such a blessed creation is Satan. Satan had the knowledge of good and evil since he is responsible for rebelling against God in the first place, and no mere animal or beast of the field would have the capacity or knowledge of good and evil. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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2 | Was the serpent satan or just a serpent? | Gen 3:1 | Mommapbs | 131378 | ||
Greetings Makarios - I have missed your dialog on the Forum lately! While away I was considering this passage and searched the archives for some answers. Hence, this note to you. Could Satan's possession of the serpent be his attempt at "creation"? ALL things were created by God, and yet since Satan aspires to usurp God in ALL things, would not his possession of the serpent change it (ie it could talk) and "appear" to be a "new creature"? As such, how would this new creation appear to Eve? This verse, to me, suggests that God gives us the capactity to desire what is best, but sadly, Eve thought that this "new creature" was better than what God had made . . . was the grass was greener before the Fall? Consider James 1:15-17. Eve knew God intimately; Eve also knew what God had made. I'm wondering why, when the serpent spoke to her, she didn't recognize the absence of God's hand? Blessings - mommapbs |
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3 | Was the serpent satan or just a serpent? | Gen 3:1 | Makarios | 138645 | ||
Greetings Mommapbs! Sorry about my great delay in writing.. I appreciate your perspective, since I have never looked at the scene in the Garden of Eden in quite the same introspective way that you have. I don't believe that Satan's possible possession of the serpent in the Garden was in any way an attempt at creation itself, but possibly, coercion would be a much better term to describe the relation between the serpent and Satan, if indeed this occurrence in history was much more literal than figuratively speaking. I don't believe that any being, outside of God, could be able to "create" anything, in the truest sense.. I believe that to create a specific thing would be to make a new thing out of simply nothing, or to create a brand new thing out of something that could not have possibly been derived out of the thing that it was before, except for divine design being added to the thing to make it something totally new. I do not believe that Satan himself, or anyone else, has the power to create, but to corrupt and make useless or ineffective that which God had originally intended for a productive purpose. In that way, I believe that Satan is not able to create anything, but he is able to corrupt what was created by God for his evil purposes. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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4 | Was the serpent satan or just a serpent? | Gen 3:1 | kalos | 138649 | ||
Makarios: Welcome back! We have sorely missed your good scholarship. Grace to you and to Mrs. Makarios! :-) Kalos |
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