Which outlined the religious "trickster" character which undermined the competing religious snakes cults which were prevalent throughout the Fertile Crescent.
OM
lol...attempting to intertwine God's Word with paganism...:failpail:
Which outlined the religious "trickster" character which undermined the competing religious snakes cults which were prevalent throughout the Fertile Crescent.
OM
lol...attempting to intertwine God's Word with paganism...:failpail:
Which is where the tale originated, absolutely. Those who borrowed the tale, betrayed the context, then declared it "God's Word" (God remains strangely silent on the subject) do not in any way change this foundation.
OM
Assuming, a god exists, he likely doesn't care about petty human concerns.
Remember, he's on omnipotent being. Try to wrap you head around that concept.
Do you really think he spends his entire existence concerned over the actions of humans, when he has an entire universe to deal with?
Relative to a being of that power, humans are essentially gnats.
Do you concern yourself over the lives of gnats? Nope.
And an Omnipotent being likely doesn't concern himself about you or the other gnats, ...er I mean humans on the planet
It is not a tale...that was your 1st mistake...
Believing that humans first existed in a magic garden 6000 years ago and were deceived by a talking snake would not be my folly.
OM
Actually, yes...CB is right, you are wrong...Genesis makes it obvious who the serpent was by giving us the very 1st prophecy in the Bible, putting enmity between God's seed and Satan's seed, the very one that all other prophecies are based on...
"And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike* him in the heel.” Genesis 3:15
And , from the words quoted that has nothing to do with satan what so ever.
No more folly than believing everything is a myth...btw, there was no talkin' snake, now you're talkin' crazy...:2razz:
Not everything is a myth; only myths are myths.
OM
The Bible is not a myth...
Not all of it, anyway; but some of it nonetheless.
OM
Jesus' parables, yes...they were illustrative teachings...even visions, dreams, and other prophecies were of events yet to come...God's Word is Truth...John 17:17...
Does God Approve of Gays?
Even if there is a God ... who cares if He approves?
A more pertinent question would be; Does God approve of His wicked priests that molest children, or look the other way regarding chronic adultery and lies?
Not to mention the Pentateuch.
OM
Right, God was seeking vengeance against a measley snake...now, what's wrong with that picture? lol...
lol...
It is a just so story to explain why snakes have no legs, and why a lot of people freak out about them.
Um no, Jehovah's referring to how the snake lives was symbolic of how Satan's standing with Him would be from that point on...
Was a religious trickster designed by monotheists to undermine the sheer prevalence of the major competing religion of the area and time, then was borrowed and reduced to writing to instill a sense of national religious identity in the face of almost-certain cultural assimilation. Then, hundreds of years later, it suddenly became "Satan".
OM
Um no, Jehovah's referring to how the snake lives was symbolic of how Satan's standing with Him would be from that point on...
It's always been Satan...
Where does it say 'satan' in the text?
Where does it say 'satan' in the text?