Adam, Eve, & a Snake

November 1, 2008, 10:10 pm by dc-agape.

Genesis 3:1-13

     Somehow the talking serpent of Genesis 3:1 becomes the great deceiver.  Yet this must be a new interpretation of the Word.  What type of fruit was the fruit of good and evil?  Everyone knows it was an apple.  Milton changed the fruit of good and evil to an apple, no translation of the Word does.  The translation change of the serpent to the devil is the same thing.  The Word tells us about a talking serpent…that means that YHWH created a talking, crafty serpent.  Why would YHWH punish all serpents if the devil used a stupid reptile’s body?  Would that be a just, benevolent god’s response?  Of course it would NOT be.

     With the fruit of good and evil sitting in the middle of the garden and YHWH giving all green plants and trees to all the animals created I am surprised that only the serpent ate the fruit.  But that would explain how the serpent knew YHWH intention and why a benevolent creator would punish an animal used by another supernatural being.

     The fruit is not only good for food (every green plant and tree) and also good for gaining wisdom, but it was also pleasing to the eye.  You would think that if YHWH did not want mankind to eat this fruit he would have made it look bad!  Mankind did not have wisdom before eating the fruit, so of course they could not recognize the results of eating the fruit.  The only way to correct naivety is to learn hard lessons.  Would a good parent punish all their grandchildren because of what one offspring did?  It is definitely not considered proper retaliation today.  How does YHWH get away with being such a hideous parent?

     You know having the fruit of good and evil sitting in the middle of a garden at sometime mankind would eat from it.  That is just human nature.  Did YHWH just not realize what he had created?  Maybe YHWH was just naive.  

     I wonder why being naked before his creator would make man afraid.  It seems to be an odd reason to be afraid.  Notice that the Word does not say that man was afraid because he had eaten the fruit!  

    More on human nature…blame someone else.  The man blames the woman, and then the woman blames the serpent.  So why does the serpent not blame the devil?  It certainly does not seem that the woman was deceived.  She knows what the fruit can do, she,also, knows what YHWH said (even though in Gen 1:29 YHWH gives all plants to mankind). 

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