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who the serpent was?

Norbert Tinca

New Member
Who the serpent was?

First of all we need to read

2Cor.11-2 “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ”

Pavel speaks here to chorintians, the Gentiles, who are presented here as a chaste virgin, a woman. But he is jealous here but with a godly jealousy. We find what is that godly jealousy in

Rom.11-14 “If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. “

and In Rom.11-11 “I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.”

It’s a jealousy that Pavel, who was a jew, have it. A jealousy that is godly because this jealousy can save some of them (from the jews).

Now! If in chorintians Pavel spoke about a virgin, that represent Christ church, then Eve it’s also a church. And what next? Pavel have a fear.

2Cor.11-3 “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

In Ef.5-32 find this:

“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Is a mystery find in Genesis about the man and woman.

And what says Pavel in Eph.4-23,24?

“ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

We need to renew the spirit of our mind, like the man who God created on his own image (right, holy). But pavel have a fear. About our mind that Satan want to corrupted. Like he beguiled Eve.

Now!

How it beguiled Eve?

Gen 3.5 “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

My question? How they shall be as gods? As God? Will be the man made on his own image. This is how it beguiled Eve. Eve is “mother of all living”. Gen.3-20. But God say that “thou shalt surely die” if you eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Now!

Rom5-13 “For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law”

Gen2-25 “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed”

But when they eat from the tree of knowledge what happened?

Gen3-7 And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons”

We talk here about the law, that God gave it to the jews. And with law they know about the sin.

Rom.7-7: “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.”

Rom.7-8 “ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”

The law is the knowing of good and evil.

Pavel ask from Galatians (the Gentiles) the next question:

Gal.3-2 “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

God say that shall surely die. They wasn’t receive the Spirit by the works of law like the serpent say , knowing good and evil. They surely wasn’t as God, as the man made on the image of God.

And that is why Eve named the mother of all living. Because the jews, THEY are the people of God, they are alive. But they die if they don’t have the Spirit. The Spirit is the life. The ethernal life. This is why God say they surely die. But the Gentiles are dead. Eph.2-1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins”.

And Peter says in 1Pe:4-6 “ For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.” The virgin is come from Gentiles. And the Virgin are the people that are dead in Christ and shall rise first . 1The4-16.

Why first? In Rom:11-25 “ For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness is part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.” They shall rise first. From the dead in the sins. But what about blindness of Israel. Rom:11-8 “According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day”. A spirit of slumber. Maybe if God gave you eyes to see and ears to hear by the Holy Spirit you will know who are the dead in Christ, who are asleep and who are alive and remain on the coming of the Lord in 1The:4,15-17

Think about Luke 15 on the story of the man who have two sons. TWO SONS.

One that Lu:15-24 “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”

And the other that is jealous Lu:15-29,30 “And he answering said to his father , Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf”. He was jealous and the youngest living with harlots, in sin, dead, but now alive because he is returned to his father.

Lu:15-31 “And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine”

Question: if he ever with Him, he should dead or alive?
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
I believe the serpent was Hel who was a shapeshifter and a trickster.

I believe the gods were essential in the creative process but they were not interested in turning humans into gods. It may have been that the gods provided eternal life while Adam and Eve were innocent but withdrew it when found to be guilty.

I believe the dead or alive questio is moot because the Spirit is always alive but I believe the concept of beinng "with" means that Jesus is aliven the body.
 

Jayhawker Soule

-- untitled --
Premium Member
I believe one lens is as good as another if it is relevant.
Of course. After all, why should scholarship be in any way relevant?

I believe Jews think anything but their own view is a distortion.
Because, of course, all Jews think alike while wholly lacking in intellectual integrity. Do you have any other stupid antisemitic generalizations to share?
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
I believe the serpent is equated to a beast of the field which does not define character but form.

Consider if you will...regardless of form....
if I call you a snake....if I claim you speak with forked tongue....
would I not be drawing to mind ...your character?
 

Harmonious

Well-Known Member
Or... It could be a snake that once had legs and could talk. It shared the perspective of an animal. It's not necessarily evil, but which is more important to an animal: instinct, or spoken words?

Since animals focus on instinct, perhaps people couldn't trust spoken words which fight against instinct.

Not evil, just a different point of view.

God didn't appreciate being gainsaid by an animal, so He took the animal's power of speech away.
 

Mountain_Climber

Active Member
Who the serpent was?

We see, here as follows, how the serpent is used figuratively: Genesis 49:17 “Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.”

The Israelite tribe of Dan was of course no literal serpent but just as Paul also showed in the passage you next cite, that any person or group of persons can be as that serpent which spoke lies to Eve and so deceived her.

We see that a rebellious angel was the most likely candidate for that serpent there in the Garden of Eden when we compare Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2; and Jude 6 and 9. Then, too, we find some comparative references at Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 which seem to support that conclusion. (Just remember that at places like Ezekiel 28 some will object on the basis that this is a different Eden being spoken of. However, that is beside the point, as that Eden is being compared to the original Eden, even as the prince of Tyrus is being compared to the original serpent and called, “he anointed cherub that covereth”, “covereth” referring to the function of a cherub which is to protect or shield. The Hebrew word can also be translated “to blockade”, making it seem apparent that this cherubic spirit creature was appointed to block the way to the tree of the knowledge of good and bad but misused his appointment for selfish ends.)

Do you believe in the Spiritual Israel? I know many scoff at the idea of a Spiritual Israel, sarcastically calling it, "Replacement Theology".

I believe in the Spiritual Israel.

The house of Israel is a common expression in the Bible. When Peter said, "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5), Peter had in mind that the church is Spiritual Israel.
 

Mountain_Climber

Active Member
Or, perhaps spiritual New Jerusalem, which is the governing part of Spiritual Israel.

I know some claim that the great crowd at Revelation 7 are not spiritual Israel, but it may be that they are, just not the governing part.

I think the chances are good that all who are saved are considered to be a part of spiritual Israel, which the spiritual New Jerusalem then judges:

Matthew 19:28 "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

Israel was a picture of how God would deal with the entire world. I believe that at Revelation 7 that Israel is the world-wide Israel which compares to the field of harvest which was seen in Matthew 13.

For we know these things are spiritual and being spoken spiritually of.

Zechariah 8:23 "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you."

The number twelve represents divine grouping whereas the number ten represents fleshly grouping. "Ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you", represents the efforts out of all nations of those who have chosen to follow after Christ and learn his ways.

There were twelve tribes shown at Revelation 7 because although in the foreshadow the Two-tribe kingdom foreshadowed the divinely appointed ruling sector of Israel, in the spiritual Israel they would be chosen out of all of the nations, since the Two-tribe kingdoms dispersing like the Ten-tribe kingdom had been, into all of the nations. And thus it becomes the 12 are to be judged by the New Jerusalem as Jesus said at Matthew 19:28.
 
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Muffled

Jesus in me
Of course. After all, why should scholarship be in any way relevant?

It wouldn't be if one were going to an aircraft repair school.

Because, of course, all Jews think alike while wholly lacking in intellectual integrity. Do you have any other stupid antisemitic generalizations to share?

I was speaking from my experience in debates. I realize that it does not genreally refer to all that could be called Jews.

I believe that is a bit excessive. Do I believe intellectual integrity is sacrified in favor of the person's beleifs, the answer is yes.

Sure I believe I gotta love em for it because at least they want to be faithful to God as far as I can tell.
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
Consider if you will...regardless of form....
if I call you a snake....if I claim you speak with forked tongue....
would I not be drawing to mind ...your character?

Sure but then I believe I would be calling you a man, a snake and I would not call you a beast of the field because you aren't one.
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
Or... It could be a snake that once had legs and could talk. It shared the perspective of an animal. It's not necessarily evil, but which is more important to an animal: instinct, or spoken words?

Since animals focus on instinct, perhaps people couldn't trust spoken words which fight against instinct.

Not evil, just a different point of view.

God didn't appreciate being gainsaid by an animal, so He took the animal's power of speech away.

I believe that just comes under the heading of speculation without evidence. Has science ever turned up such a creature?
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Sure but then I believe I would be calling you a man, a snake and I would not call you a beast of the field because you aren't one.

Hmmmm.....Man as a beast of the field?

I suppose if he tills the ground by hand......
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
Hmmmm.....Man as a beast of the field?

I suppose if he tills the ground by hand......

I believe tool making has been around a long time and that tends to set us apart from the beasts. Tool making long preceded agriculture.
 

Muffled

Jesus in me
Or... It could be a snake that once had legs and could talk. It shared the perspective of an animal. It's not necessarily evil, but which is more important to an animal: instinct, or spoken words?

Since animals focus on instinct, perhaps people couldn't trust spoken words which fight against instinct.

Not evil, just a different point of view.

God didn't appreciate being gainsaid by an animal, so He took the animal's power of speech away.

According to myth Hel was a shapshifter and could take any form he/she wished. However she amy have been naturally an alien life form with a snake/lizard appearance. There is some evidence from ancient South American indian lore that the sepent people battled the sun people. In my estimation the sun people would be the dwarves of norse mythololgy and called that because of their blonde hair.
 
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