Genesis 3:14&15

[hindupridemn]

Does this refer literally to snakes? Does this explain the disdain felt for snakes in Western culture?

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

(a) possibly not (b) almost certainly not

 

[Levite]

(a) possibly not (b) almost certainly not

Oh, I don't know: just the last time I evicted a garter snake from our patio chair, I thought, "curse you, seductive lying reptile! First you lose us paradise, and now my deck chair??! You go too far."

 

[theosis]

genesis...literally

Oy indeed. 400 BCE called...

 

[Pegg]

Does this refer literally to snakes? Does this explain the disdain felt for snakes in Western culture?

short answer, no. It is the condemnation pronounced on the angel who used a snake to deceive the woman.

Revelatin 12:9*So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth

 

[theosis]

short answer, no. It is the condemnation pronounced on the angel who used a snake to deceive the woman.

Revelatin 12:9*So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth

Pretty sure the authors of Genesis didn't have in mind the fantasies of John of Patmos when they wrote, in the centuries before Christ.

 

[Pegg]

Pretty sure the authors of Genesis didn't have in mind the fantasies of John of Patmos when they wrote, in the centuries before Christ.

Its all Gods Word revealed over time.

 

[theosis]

Its all Gods Word revealed over time.

Just like God decided which of the dozens of religious works written around that time were going to be made Canon?

 

[Pegg]

Just like God decided which of the dozens of religious works written around that time were going to be made Canon?

some authors were able to prove through works that they were under Gods direction

others just wrote things but could not confirm where their authority came from...so those writings were not considered to be from God because the writers themselves could not prove they were from God.


the most prolific christian writers, Paul, John & Peter proved they had Gods backing in the same way Moses was able to prove he had Gods backing.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Oh, I don't know: just the last time I evicted a garter snake from our patio chair, I thought, "curse you, seductive lying reptile! First you lose us paradise, and now my deck chair??! You go too far."

You really need to learn how to control that rabbinic temper. :no:

 

[dantech]

Oh, I don't know: just the last time I evicted a garter snake from our patio chair, I thought, "curse you, seductive lying reptile! First you lose us paradise, and now my deck chair??! You go too far."

You really need to learn how to control that rabbinic temper. :no:

Really? It made me laugh! Keep it coming Rabbi!