sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
sandy whitelinger said:
Please look at the reference. First, God is not in the garden talking to Himself saying those things. Second, there is no evidence that those specific punishments happened to God.
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Is the "serpent" God?
- Thread starter gnostic
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Please look at the reference. First, God is not in the garden talking to Himself saying those things. Second, there is no evidence that those specific punishments happened to God.
I think the thing is that it wasn't "designed". It's more like an anthology.
EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
The Serpent is Lucifer and brought the truth to us.
Aside from the facts that the Biblical story is yet another retelling of much older Pagan myths, we have the word 'Eden' which is of Sumerian origin 'edinu' or paradise. Then we have the 'Uraeus' or the Egyptian cobra headdress which symbolized the 'Lord of Life & Death' the ultimate symbol of earthly power. From Qabalah's Gemetria we see that the esoteric number of the serpent in Eden is the same as that of the Messiah. We have two serpents coiled around the Tree of Life which signified 'gnosis' and is a mirror image of what DNA looks like.
I could go on but I will direct you to a good article on our Serpent Redeemer
Lucifer Worship
Aside from the facts that the Biblical story is yet another retelling of much older Pagan myths, we have the word 'Eden' which is of Sumerian origin 'edinu' or paradise. Then we have the 'Uraeus' or the Egyptian cobra headdress which symbolized the 'Lord of Life & Death' the ultimate symbol of earthly power. From Qabalah's Gemetria we see that the esoteric number of the serpent in Eden is the same as that of the Messiah. We have two serpents coiled around the Tree of Life which signified 'gnosis' and is a mirror image of what DNA looks like.
I could go on but I will direct you to a good article on our Serpent Redeemer
Lucifer Worship
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Maybe you just don't know how to understand the language of talking snakes.
Azakel
Liebe ist für alle da
Who ever said one needed vocal chords to truly "talk" ^_^
JamBar85
Master Designer
I guess it would only be helpful to be Dr Doolittle if the snake spoke English though.
GabrielWithoutWings
Well-Known Member
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Or any other mythological story with talking snakes.
At this point in time, I believe, we can only speculate as to why the snake/serpent/dragon was such a common motif in many mythologies. Here's some information about it.
Serpent (symbolism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
blueman
God's Warrior
What a stretch of a theory???? Makes no sense whatsover and does not align with events that transpired subsequent to said events over the next 1000 years.
JamBar85
Master Designer
What events?
Or even, interesting how they'd seem a negative symbol in one religion and a positive one in the same religion to another person with a different understanding. That "snake," for instance, is not evil in everyone's Christianity.
I think if you keep asking that, reading and searching, you may find the answer you seek.
blueman
God's Warrior
The influence and effects of evil and sin pre and post 1st century. This did not derive from God.
JamBar85
Master Designer
Yeah thats a good point. There seems to be so much to cover. That's just over one issue in the bible.
Also, I didn't know there was more than one type of christianity. Religion appears to be a lot deeper than I originally thought.
Who or what did it derive from?
gnostic
The Lost One
blueman said:
No more a stretch than a talking snake, a world being created in 6 days, light being created to divide day and night without a sun, man created out of the earth, and lastly, my personal favorite - woman created out of Adam's rib.
What is wrong with the theory that God could possibly be the snake that deceived Eve? Seriously, I don't believe in God, because I see know proof of since I am able to read and write. For that matter I don't believe in Satan. But if I did believe in such things then all likelihood there is no Satan, but two sides of God, good and bad.
God's bad side masquerade as a snake to entrap Eve into eating the fruit. Since Eve didn't know right from wrong, thus she couldn't tell between a truth or lie, she was easily deceived.
C'mon now.
God is supposed to be all-knowing. Why did God make no mention of Satan? God himself refer the serpent as a serpent, but not to Satan?
If the God really knew who the snake was, then it would have punished Satan himself.
JamBar85 said:
I didn't think much of the snake being able to talk when I first read the Genesis. As I became more and more involved with mythology and folklore, I now believed that the Genesis, at least in the case with a narrative of the Eden, that I see it as fable, thus a myth. Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian myths contain many fables of animals that can talk.
My specialty is not religion, but mythology, and seeing Sumerian and Old Babylonian literature that are older than the composition of Genesis, I began to question the Bible's truthfulness.