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The bronze snake in numbers and the serpent Lucifer [closed]
In Numbers 21:4-9, Moses makes a bronze serpent on a stick to heal the Hebrews' snake bites, as per God's instructions. They don't worship it, but they are to look at it in order to live.
Why did God ...
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What is the envy of Satan to Adam & Eve that resulted in the entry of death in the Garden of Eden?
Wisdom 2:23-25 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
23 For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him.
24 But by the envy of the devil, death came into the ...
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Wouldn't evil have already existed on Earth before Adam and Eve?
We all know the story of Adam and Eve causing the first original sin by eating from the Tree of Life. However, Lucifer became Satan before Adam and Eve were even created, he was casted down to Earth ...
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Does the word "touch" in Genesis 3:3 orginate from Eve or Satan?
The Serpent's Deception
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruitof the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of ...
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What particular action that is in excess to God's Permissive Will did Satan commit in the Garden of Eden?
Reading God's judgement on Adam & Eve and Satan would allow us to see and understand that Satan had done something in excess that merited not just a punishment but a "curse".
We can see ...
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Is there any Denomination which think that the "serpent" at the beginning of his existence in Eden is not a bad being?
This question raised after my other question here
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you ...
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Explain she bore again from Genesis-when Eve gave birth to Cain & Able?...who was Cains fathet? [closed]
In Genesis,..when it reads she(Eve) bore again,is that referring to that Able being born 1st was actually Adam son-but then she gave birth again(implying right after Ables birth,...meaning they were ...
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How could Satan be cursed to crawl on the ground, yet walk before God in Job?
In Genesis 3:1 we find a serpent. Supposedly Satan inhabited the serpent, or the word should be translated Shining One (NIV). At any rate, God curses the snake in 3:14: "On your belly you shall go, ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that Satan was the serpent in the Garden of Eden?
This seems to be the generally accepted belief, and it's taught to children in Sunday School in many churches, but is there biblical basis for it? Here's the actual text:
1 Now the serpent was more ...
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Biblical basis for two aspects of the Gap Theory
According to the Gap Theory there was a large gap in time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Two aspects of the theory are:
Rather than Genesis 1:1 being a summary for what follows, it is a ...
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What is meant by the punishment for Satan in Genesis 3? [closed]
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all ...
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Who is the "Seed of the Serpent" spoken of in Genesis 3? [closed]
In Genesis 3, God curses the serpent Satan in the following words:
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed
are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of ...
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What does the curse on the serpent mean? [closed]
When God cursed the Earth He also cursed the serpent.
Genesis 3:14 NASB
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every ...
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