Understanding difficult to explain bible stories: Eve and the serpent
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Gen 3:1) Everyone by now is familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, and how Eve was tricked by a talking snake into eating the forbidden fruit from the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The most obvious question is how can a snake talk? The next question should be, why was Eve not surprised by a talking snake? The key to answering this question is found in the Hebrew word for serpent, "nachash". As a noun nachash means "snake" or "serpent". That may be obvious, but it is often overlooked that Lucifer aka Satan is often referred to as a serpent and a dragon (i.e. reptile), for example: So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out wit...