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Well yes...But before he was known as the Serpent, God created Lucifer to be a mighty, exceeding good looking person...Lucifer wasn't condemned to his 'serpenthood' til after he bequiled Eve in the garden...And from that point on he was known as the Serpent...
originally posted by: DeathSlayer
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: DeathSlayer
I think the intention of the story is that the snake's offspring are other snakes.
"The man shall bruise your head, you shall bruise his heel" is precisely what men and snakes do to each other; that element in the story is there to explain why.
is not Lucifer known as the serpent?
How can you argue the Bible when you don't even know the Bible...We are currently living in Satan's Kingdom...
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: windword
Oh yeah I forgot! Satan is such a busy bee. I wonder why God never steps up to counter any these tricks of Satan's? For a god that supposedly hates the guy, he sure lets him run roughshod over his favorite creations. Sounds like a conspiracy to me!
Maybe the apple was a false flag that God planted to BLAME Lucifer because God was always just a dick.
originally posted by: Iscool
Well yes...But before he was known as the Serpent, God created Lucifer to be a mighty, exceeding good looking person...Lucifer wasn't condemned to his 'serpenthood' til after he bequiled Eve in the garden...And from that point on he was known as the Serpent...
originally posted by: DeathSlayer
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: DeathSlayer
I think the intention of the story is that the snake's offspring are other snakes.
"The man shall bruise your head, you shall bruise his heel" is precisely what men and snakes do to each other; that element in the story is there to explain why.
is not Lucifer known as the serpent?
When Moses wrote about the events in the Genesis, it was 1500 years after the event took place...So Lucifer had been the Serpent for a good long time by then...
It wasn't an apple in the tree, it was a pair on the ground...
originally posted by: DeathSlayer
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: DeathSlayer
I think the intention of the story is that the snake's offspring are other snakes.
"The man shall bruise your head, you shall bruise his heel" is precisely what men and snakes do to each other; that element in the story is there to explain why.
is not Lucifer known as the serpent?
You do realize that both Jesus and Lucifer are described as the same entity in the bible don't you?
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
You do realize that both Jesus and Lucifer are described as the same entity in the bible don't you?
Isaiah 14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
In other versions it has "morning star" replacing Lucifer. It is widely held that Lucifer is who Isaiah was speaking of.
Revelation 22
16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
Jesus then refers to himself as the morning star.
Lucifer means "light bringing". What did Jesus claim to bring?
John 12
46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
He claimed to bring light to the world.
Lucifer and Jesus represent the same thing except Lucifer has been given a bad rap so that people will reject the light in my opinion while believing in a false light that they cannot personally see.
Well, our bible actually is almost word for word the same as the scripture found in the Dead Sea Scrolls which are a couple thousand years old...
originally posted by: veracity
a reply to: Iscool
the people who dont know the bible verse by verse always seem to be the ones who KNOW the bible the best bc they dont play into it. They take it for what it is...a book that has been rewritten over and over again with interjections of propaganda to control the masses.
The bible is amazing and worthless both at the same time.
It is amazing as in it is the only account of these people existing and preaching and telling the stories. However, it is worthless bc it has been rewritten, misconstrued and translated over the years.
I look at the book as a story book based off factual information. Its still fascinating to me.
Originally posted by DISRAELI
I am drawing the line by looking for the interpretation that makes the most sense, and leaves the whole thing least tangled.
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A metaphorical snake is introduced for the purpose.
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originally posted by: Joecroft
Ok, but how does making the snake that tempted Eve Metaphorical ease the interpretation…What’s the big problem with making that part literal as well
Ge 4:1 ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Bramley [3] has noted that, “We therefore find Ea [Enki] as the reputed culprit who tried to teach early man (Adam) the way to spiritual freedom. This suggests that Ea intended his creation, Homo sapiens, to be suited for Earth labor, but at some point he changed his mind about using spiritual enslavement as a means.”
From a Biblical perspective, it was Enki who (with the critical assistance of his half-sister, Ninki, aka Nin-khursag) created Adam and Eve. It was Enlil, on the other hand, who created “Edin”. Enki was the serpent in the garden, who urged Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (which was infinitely beneficial to their spiritual growth). It was Enlil, who drove them out of Edin, while Enki was there to clothe them. It is worth noting that Zecharia Sitchin [2] claims that the biblical word for “snake” is nahash, which comes from the root word NHSH, and which means “to decipher, to find out.” In other words, Enki, the God of Wisdom.