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lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Kat on September 17, 2016, 07:16:18 PM ---
Alex, I do agree that the serpent does represent Satan, and we have a number of examples of Satan being referred to when a real person was so influenced by him. Jesus referred to Peter in such a way.
Mat 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, Go, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you do not savor the things that are of God, but those that are of men.
And of course there is Judas.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And one of you is a devil?
v. 71 But he spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; for it was he who was about to betray Him, being one of the Twelve.
John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,
John 13:27 And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly.
Of course the person was not literally Satan, but they took on the persona of his character in what they did. And we can see that it is Satan that is being referred to in tempting Eve, it just makes sense to me that it was through a person. And we know that throughout Scripture God has warned His people to stay away from the nations of the land that He drivers out before them. Maybe that is what's symbolized in do not eat the fruit of the tree...
Lev 20:22 'You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
v. 23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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I see what you're saying about behaving according to the spirit of satan or as you put it, 'on the persona of his character.' That is certainly a possibility I can agree with.
God bless,
Alex
santgem:
--- Quote from: Kat on September 17, 2016, 07:16:18 PM ---
Alex, I do agree that the serpent does represent Satan, and we have a number of examples of Satan being referred to when a real person was so influenced by him. Jesus referred to Peter in such a way.
Mat 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, Go, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you do not savor the things that are of God, but those that are of men.
And of course there is Judas.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And one of you is a devil?
v. 71 But he spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; for it was he who was about to betray Him, being one of the Twelve.
John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,
John 13:27 And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly.
Of course the person was not literally Satan, but they took on the persona of his character in what they did. And we can see that it is Satan that is being referred to in tempting Eve, it just makes sense to me that it was through a person. And we know that throughout Scripture God has warned His people to stay away from the nations of the land that He drivers out before them. Maybe that is what's symbolized in do not eat the fruit of the tree...
Lev 20:22 'You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
v. 23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
--- End quote ---
Greetings!
John 13:27 And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What you do, do quickly
as said, this is the first time the spirit Satan literally entered into human.
for what?
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.Jhn 17:12
So that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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