@josephw

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I try to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you just keep coming back to prove what a shmuck you are.

@josephw said
I noticed you have a habit of blurting snarkily when you have nothing substantive to say. I'd say that characterizes 99.9% of everything you say.

Oh the irony.

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Are you just gonna work your way down your "dislike" list until no one ever posts here except non-Christians?

Nice agenda you have there.

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Nothing there.

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Can you be any more disingenuous?

What talking snake?

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I dodge ignorance at every opportunity.

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And there what is?

Are you trying to say the serpent didn't speak to Eve in the garden?

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That question is sophomoric, and a dodge of a discussion of the narrative of the Genesis account.

The real question is did the serpent speak to Eve? If you are hung up on the serpent being a snake that's your issue.

There are many metaphors, allegories, idioms, figures of speech, parables and other linguistic aspects of the scriptures just like in every other writings.

I tried to answer your question before, but you seem to have an agenda that betrays your integrity and sincerity because you think you know something about the scriptures I don't.

Whether Satan appeared as a talking snake, or is referred to as a serpent metaphorically is irrelevant to what God is instructing us to understand about the origin of the sin that plagues the human race.

Apparently that lesson is lost on you.