I did not ask anything about the serpent talking to the woman.
Where does the text say the man was tricked into disobeying God?
It does not nor does the man claim he was deceived or tricked by the serpent.
He blamed God for his disobedience.
Where in the text does it say that Adam slept the night before? Where in the text does it say that Adam and Eve drank water? Where in the text does it say that Adam and Eve breathe air?
Just because something is not in the text does not mean it can not be inferred from the text.
As for "blaming God", God created the talking snake and sent it to Eve to tell her it was okay to eat the fruit. Then God backs out on that and accuses them of breaking the rules.
Of course Adam is going to blame God. God deserves the blame.
Normal snakes do not talk.
Where do you find that this serpent did not have the ability to talk?
As far as that goes how do you know that all animals at that time did not talk?
So, you want to play "It's not in the text" with the snake tricking them but you are willing to assume that ALL ANIMALS COULD SPEAK at this time?
Really?
Is this your religion or a children's book? Is there a difference?
The serpent under discussion was formed from the ground in the same light period that the Heavens and the Earth was created. He had legs and could walk until God cursed him and told him he would crawl on his belly the rest of his life.
BTW Science says snakes used to have legs.
If the serpent could walk why couldn't he talk? No magic involved.
So, snakes had legs and then had them removed. And snakes could talk and then.... didn't have that removed.
So, why don't snakes still talk? Why don't all the animals still talk?
Seriously, are you just arguing for the fun of arguing or do you actually believe this nonsense?
1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Did Adam have the book of John to refer to? I don't think so.
From Adam's perspective there's NO REASON to NOT BELIEVE anything any talking animal tells him. They are all messengers of God and incapable of deception because the very concept of deception does not even exist.
The man was commanded not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
He was told if he did he would die.
The man chose to eat the fruit and suffer the consequences.
The only thing involved was his disobeying a direct command.
Did man die? No.
Was man commanded to eat the fruit? Yes.
Was the fruit placed there specifically for man to eat it? Yes.
Did God therefore want man to eat the fruit? Yes.
To NOT eat the fruit would be to go against the will of God.
God created the tree, gave it fruit, put it in the garden, put Adam in the garden, created a talking snake and told it to go tell Adam and Eve to eat the fruit.
There's no sin here at all.
That broken relationship brought about the necesity of the sacrifice at Calvary to restore mankind to the same relationship the man in the garden enjoyed prior to his disobedience.
Prior to his "disobedience" man had no knowledge of evil.
Do you have knowledge of evil?
Your claim is falsified.
Everyone who has been born again has been restored to a right relationship with God.
So no one who is born again can have an intelligent opinion on good and evil.
Good to know.
I assume you are born again, since you position is clearly not intelligent.
The first man was formed from the dust of the ground.
The dust of the ground was already an eternal existing substance so from the beginning of mankind he was an eternal being.
I read somewhere you can not create or destroy energy or matter but they are interchangable. So everything has always existed in some form just not nesecerally in the form we observe it today.
Translation: God is a liar
Good to know. I'll be sure to quote you on that.
God told the man not to eat of a specific tree, and if he did he would die.
Yeah, that's what you say. But then you also say that God is a liar. So, it's sort of hard to believe you.
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