Preacher: It’s Not Weird That a Snake Spoke to Eve Because Even Parrots Can Talk

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Very confused man. Perhaps, as a friendly atheist, you can bring him up to speed on some basic theology of the Serpent.

What is the Serpent?

One of the more interesting details of the Genesis story is the Serpent. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” Was the Serpent a snake? What was it?