Eve And Adam In The Garden Of Eden.

[sandyRoe]

God condemns the serpent to slither around on its tummy after it had tempted Eve.  How did it get about prior to that?

[david small]

Stilts.

[sandyRoe]

Ah, yes.  Of course.

[anneasquith]

The bus .

[andres]

wings or legs.

[sandyRoe]

All plausible answers but I think we really need a theologian to give a definitive answer.

[THECORBYLOON]

https://www.masters.edu/thinking_blog/the-curse-on-the-serpent/

'Rabbinic legend holds, and it’s perhaps an accurate thing, that the serpent before the temptation was an upright creature. Perhaps that is why Revelation also refers to him as a dragon. But now he is altered and cast down onto his belly. And further, God says, “Dust you will eat.”

That doesn’t mean that dust is the food of a snake. Most snakes eat insects, small rodents and things like that. They don’t eat dirt. They just live in it. That’s what it means. “Dust you will eat,” not as a food, but as a result of writhing on the ground.'

 

[Jarg]

Uber

[ToraToraTora]

could it be that originally the serpents did not slither as we know today?

[douglas9401]

We may have to convene a COBRA meeting to discuss fully.

[Jarg]

Asp TTT he knows everything 

[Ken4155]

What i want to know is when did snakes lose the ability to speak? Did the invisible man 'upstairs' strike it dumb immediately it had enticed eve with the 'forbidden fruit'?

[douglas9401]

Taking a step to the side, the big man was very keen on banning this and insisting on that back in the day, speaking through his intermediaries of course. Enough chat to fill a book in fact.

Not much heard from him recently though, I wonder if someone should nip round and check on him, see if he's okay as he's getting on a bit.

[sandyRoe]

Philip Pullman, in his trilogy, His dark materials, opined that God has sank into senior decrepitude.

Imagine an eternity of dementia, incontinence , and an inability to die.

It doesn't bear thinking about.

[jno]

an artist who happened to be in the Garden of Eden at the time noted that the snake had legs

http://www.adam-and-eve.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/adam_eve_Dornai.jpg

Also breasts. This was because she was thought to be Lilith, Adam's first wife, whom he had dumped because she wanted to be on top during sex

https://www.angelfire.com/journal/ofapoet/lilith.html

[sandyRoe]

Nothing wrong with cowgirl antics.

[jno]

when missionary meets cowgirl, something's gotta give

[jno]

your question did come up during the Scopes monkey trial

https://law.jrank.org/pages/2855/John-Thomas-Scopes-Trial-1925-Monkey-Trial-Darrow-Deflates-Bryan.html

[Ken4155]

Adam wasn't Eve's 'first' if her stomach is anything to go by. He's obviously as gullible as Joseph.

[Ken4155]

^

I refer, of course, to the painting provided by Jno. Just in case any of you think i was an eye-witness😊

[douglas9401]

I was just getting into that Lilith business when I realised I was being brainwashed by rabid feminism. 😀