Posted on 09/28/2016 5:45:00 AM PDT by Gamecock
It is the nature of Satan to be deceptive. Scripture says he has been a liar from the beginning. His first appearance in Scripture comes under the guise of a serpent. The credentials of this malevolent creature are announced in his introduction: “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made” (Gen. 3:1).
These words fall as a sudden intrusion into an otherwise glorious account of God’s majestic work of creation. With the words “Now the serpent,” the whole atmosphere of the biblical record changes dramatically. A sudden and ominous sense of foreboding enters the narrative. An uninspired author of Genesis 3 may have introduced the record of the fall by saying, “It was a dark and stormy day.” But such hackneyed prose would have failed to yield the foreboding dread contained in the words “Now the serpent was more cunning.”
Cunning. Craftiness. Subtlety. Guile. These are the descriptive qualifiers that paint the biblical portrait of Satan.
Coram Deo
Cunning. Crafty. Subtle. Full of guile. How has Satan used these attributes against you in the realm of personal temptation?
Passages for Further Study
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
2 Corinthians 2:11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Ping
If the Bible had said “It was a dark and stormy day.”, it would have been fresh and original at the time. It leaves that for the Flood.
If you read carefully, God told Adam not to eat of the tree before Eve was made. God never said anyone else couldn’t. And Eve either made up or was misinformed by Adam about not touching it. So I don’t see what the snake did wrong.
If Man Obeyed God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a6RjR_AHY
(NOT for the easily offended by language or atheism)
P.S. I’m not an atheist. It’s just funny.
You might want to reread the account. Look for Satan’s slight twist of what God said to Eve.
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