Bible Basics: What Happened In Eden?

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:4-5)

It is wrongly assumed that the serpent here is an angel that had sinned, called “Satan”. Having been thrown out of heaven for his sin, he came to earth and tempted Eve to sin.

1. The passage talks about “the serpent”. The words “satan” and “devil” do not occur in the whole of the book of Genesis. The fact that snakes are physically with us, crawling on their bellies, is proof that the snake in Eden was a literal animal. Those who believe otherwise presumably think that whenever they have seen a literal snake they have seen “satan” itself.

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Author: Duncan Heaster

Keywords: Eve's temptation, Adam's sin, Satan, Serpent, Devil, The Fall, Garden of Eden

Bible reference(s): Genesis 3:1-16

Source: Bible Basics.

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