Originally posted by robbie carrobie
God did nothing of the sort, you are havering AGAIN. It wasn't magical, it was a
paradise, the word using meaning a park like environment. There is no indication that
snakes talk, it was simply used by Satan as a ventriloquist uses a dummy,
sigh, its no wonder you have lost your way Agers,
It wasn't magical?? Oh my mistake...so what's the natural explanation for trees of knowledge then?
Disagree with your claim about ventriloquist Satan too - indeed your interpretation of the Bible does not say anything like:
[i]Now the
fake or at the very least, non-talkative serpent
controlled by Satan proved to be
[controlled by] the most cautious of all the
[fallen angels who control things looking like] wild beasts of the field that Jehova God had made. So
Satan made it look like it began to say to the woman: "Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?" At this the woman said to serpent: "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden wee may eat. But as for [eating]
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of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU die.'" At this
[Satan throwing his voice towards] the serpent
[puppet it was controlling] said to the woman: "YOU positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad"[i]
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/genesis/3
Looks like it is you who is gibbering Robbie Carrobie :]