Frank Goad
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Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
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That old snake-in-the-grass Satan the Devil has been around since the days of Eden.Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
Unless you don't believe in any such personage. Many religions don't conceptualize a negative force that way.
Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
When did people start writing stories about him? I'd say about that long.Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
Yup. He made me do it.Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
If you would define what you mean by 'devil' I would gladly comment.Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
If you would define what you mean by 'devil' I would gladly comment.
Satan has always existed, only under other names and guises, Satan is a powerful and primordial archetype of man's psyche. This archetype is the reflection of how we perceive ourselves in relation to what we call the "others". There has always and will always, be essentially two worldviews consisting of oppositions and they are "Us & Them" or "Me" and "the rest of you" . . . etc.Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
That old snake-in-the-grass Satan the Devil has been around since the days of Eden.
Satan used that 'serpent' as a ventriloquist uses his dummy - Revelation 12:9; Revelation 12:12
I have a question for you. If the serpent was being used as a ventriloquist dummy, why was the snake punished?
Snake cult were widespread,, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian peninsula and the Indus Valley. The snake symbolized wisdom, fertility and rebirth. This was long before Genesis so maybe it was just dueling religions.
Interesting how one cultures symbol of evil is another's symbol of rebirth.
Has the devil been around for 2019 years?
I have a question for you. If the serpent was being used as a ventriloquist dummy, why was the snake punished?
I have often wondered if the devil, as a powerful spirit creature, could well have materialized as a snake in the Garden? Just my personal musing. He was posted in the garden as a guardian and protector. (apparently the main role of cherubs) Regardless, he posed as a serpent to seduce the woman into disobedience....and it worked. I wonder if he had used a bird or some other creature, if the same curse would have applied?
The fact that satan used the snake and God cursed him because he had used this creature to try and derail God's original purpose for mankind....it could even have had a deeper meaning that only satan understood? Not much more is said about it....so who knows?
I think they could see the snake shed his old skin.. I mean I'm guessing.
In Miltons Paradise Lost, the devil took the form of a serpent as a disguise hiding his true identify from the other angels in order to accomplish his mischief. I know that book is fiction but I wonder how close to truth it is. Still doesn't make sense that the snake as a mere animal was cursed because the devil chose to take that form.