@josephw

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Your reading comprehension is weak.

I said the word "serpent" could be viewed as a metaphor.

Odd how you confuse and deceive yourself in your attempt to win an argument you lost before you ever posted in this forum.

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Genesis 3:22
:..and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:..

You have a serious issue with reading comprehension.

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You probably talk as garbled as you write. Can't imagine the fog in your thinking.

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Why are you so thick?

Some of the WORDS are metaphors for very real things. The "THINGS" the words represent are REAL.

Don't be so supercilious. Have you ever seen a "lake of fire"? Not a volcano of molten rock, but the one described in revelation of burning sulfur? Have you ever seen it with your own two eyes?

I didn't think so.

Get off you self righteous high horse. Stop trying to tell me what something isn't if you've never really seen what it actually is.

@josephw said
Satan is a real being. The term "serpent" is applied to Satan in the narrative of a real event that occurred in the real garden of Eden.

So there was no serpent? The word "serpent" was just a term that was applied to a being who was not literally a serpent? This is your stance on this?

@fmf said
So there was no serpent? The word "serpent" was just a term that was applied to a being who was not literally a serpent? This is your stance on this?

Post two, page four.

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Let's see how many times you can regurgitate the same question before you begin to understand simple English.

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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Wow! A talking snake! Who would have ever thunk it?!

@josephw said
And all the metaphors, allegories, idioms, parables and figures of speech are about realities.

So, the "serpent" is a metaphor and not literally a "serpent", right? And "the Garden of Eden" is an allegory, yes?

@josephw said
Let's see how many times you can regurgitate the same question before you begin to understand simple English.

Oh the irony.

It is you who does not appear to understand - and it is an affected prideful Gish gallop defensive crouch, I think ~ the simple English words "literally", "allegory" and "metaphor".

@josephw said
No you don't. If you had solid evidence it would be demonstrable.

On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed “Lucy,” were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia. The team that excavated her remains, led by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and French geologist Maurice Taieb, nicknamed the skeleton “Lucy” after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was played at the celebration the day she was found.

Lucy, about 3.2 million years old, stood only a meter (3.5 feet) tall. She had powerful arms and long, curved toes that paleontologists think allowed her to climb trees as well as walk upright.

Lucy had a small brain like a chimpanzee, but the pelvis and leg bones were almost identical in function to those of modern humans, showing with certainty that Lucy's species were hominins that had stood upright and had walked erect.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org