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It just dawned on me that I crashed into the wrong forum. Sorry folks!

Wow. Yesterday someone kindly broke my fingers. I obviously had no IDEA what I got into- the Serpent in Eden, it seems, is no mystery at all. It's just good ol' Satan, and the uprise in panic and chaos there in that orchard was hardly his fault. It's like learning Bruce Jennings is actually a woman!...

I'm not familiar with every chapter in the Bible... why God put Satan right where Eve was to insure that she was tempted through that same deception power that flows from God He did? (slack jaw). Does this answer the question in my post about what Satan/Serpent's motivation was to thwart God (by sed...

It's a good question, greatestIam. But as usual, there is something grating here. I see God battling mutinous angels. What were they? How are the powers laid down in the matrix of Heaven? Couldn't God simply have obliterated Satan and all unfaithful birdies? He is supposed to be omnipotent after all...

The antithesis? Not necessarily. There are after all politicians and celebs who think they are God but behave like the devil. And yes, like thedoc I also have a feeling that God may have a stranglehold business contract or a political blackmail agreement with Satan. Photos and videos of the devil pu...

I'm an agnostic leaning slightly towards atheism, but I find Genesis fascinating. Whether true or fiction; the Adam & Eve segment is great. There are quite a few other episodes however which I find so-so. And the most unsatisfactory thing about monotheist religions is its double-sided dispositio...