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NASB | Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" [Rev 12:9-11] |
Subject: Adam and Eve and the Chinese characters |
Bible Note: Some interesting observations have come to light thru the study of Chinese characters. Theirs is a picture language, and there are suggestions as to why they made pictures of certain things which do not at first seem to have any connection in our minds. Please see: www.icr.org/pubs/imp/#top which contains a list of more than 300 articles on Christian evidence. The article dealing with the Chinese charactes is #169, and contains more information than I can include here. The Chinese character for snake is a picture of an *upright* creature with a big head and prominent eyes. There is the suggestion of hair or wings. When the nations were parted at the Tower of Babel ancestors of the Chinese and Japanese went to the East. In establishing their written language they used pictures. They were aware of the events we have recorded in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, and apparently related many of their ideographs to those events. Possibly the ideograph for "snake" is related to what he may have looked like before God condemned him to wriggle on the ground. Note that the OT had not yet been written when these ideographs were created, so their knowledge would have come thru their immediate ancestors, not thru the Bible. In their state of innocence Adam and Eve were likely clothed in light, as God is said to dwell in light. When Eve ate the fruit **her light went out!** Adam, seeing this knew what she had done. He was not deceived (I Tim 2:14) but of his own free will joined her by eating of the fruit. They made garments of leaves possibly, not to conceal their nakedness from each other, but in an attempt to conceal from God what they had done. Another thought, Gen 3:6 reads: "So when the woman *SAW* that the tree was good for food,..." If Satan had been ostentatiously EATING of the fruit himself, and was apparently unharmed by it, Eve might have been deceived into disbelieving God's word. HOW ELSE COULD SHE *SEE* THAT IT WAS SAFE TO EAT? |
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