He did? (slack jaw). Does this answer the question in my post about what Satan/Serpent's motivation was to thwart God (by seducing Eve)? Because I wondered about that. The Bible doesn't dwell on it. The Serpent was there, pulled his trick, reaped Gods anger and was punished.why God put Satan right where Eve was to insure that she was tempted through that same deception power that flows from God
It's confusing, because there are propositions that the fall of Satan and the appearance of the Nephilim happened when A & E were still trying to make sense of their freshly created bodies and minds. There are Jewish scholars who firmly deny that their seducer was not Lucifer. For what it's worth, they were not there, after all.
Personally I find the whole idea of putting a source of sweet smelling forbidden knowledge in the Garden to test a naive someone (in a way the adult version of a toddler) quite unethical. It seems more logic to me if God tested the evil spirit. But for that means, he sacrificed the human creation he was so content with. Boy, was God unfathomable...
It's like reading a Marvel Comic.deception power that flows from God [...] So really, man cannot fight Satan off as she yields God's own power
