Great snakes of the bible
A slightly quirky series coming at ya – ‘great snakes of the bible’. I’ll introduce you to a snake and talk up some of its skills.
This time, perhaps the most well known: the ‘crafty serpent’ in Genesis 3.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.
This snake comes as a surprise in the Genesis narrative, not only because it speaks in words that humans understand (!) but because those words oppose the maker. They are false, and therefore evil words. The serpent is ‘made by God’ yet uses the language God has created against him! You might even say that while God creates with a word, this snake tries to un-create with his word…and very nearly succeeds.
Special skills: Speaking, deceiving and being generally crafty.
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