draft article: “What happened in the garden of Eden? Was it just the Bite of a Piece of Fruit [that cursed Lucifer]?”

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THE SERPENT OF GENESIS 3 (PART TWO) COMPANION BIBLE

by Anna Maria Klironomou-O’Brien

Again, the word rendered “subtle” in Gen. 3:1 means wise, in a good sense as well as in a bad sense. In Ezekiel 28:12 we have the good sense, “Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom”; and the bad sense in verse 17, “thou hast corrupted thy wisdom” (referring, of course, to his fall). The word “beast” also, in Gen. 3:1, chay, denotes a living being, and it is as wrong to translate zoa “beasts” in Rev. 4, as it is to translate chay “beast” in Gen. 3. Both mean living creature.

Satan is thus spoken as being “more wise than any other living creature which Yahaveh Elohim had made”. We cannot conceive Eve as holding converse with a snake, but we can understand her being fascinated by one, apparently “an angel of light”(a glorious angel), possessing superior and supernatural knowledge. When Satan is spoken of as a “serpent”, it no more means a snake than it does when Dan is so called in Gen. 49:17; or an animal when Nero is called a “lion” (II Tim. 4:17). When it is said in verse 15, “thou shalt bruise His heel”, it does not mean his literal heel of flesh and blood, but suffering, more temporary in character. It is the same with other figures used in verse 14, “On thy belly shalt thou go”. It describes his humiliation for the eyes of our mind. The power of tradition, which has, from the infancy of each one of us, put before our eyes and written on our minds the picture of a “snake” and an “apple”: the former based on a wrong interpretation, and the latter being a pure invention, about which there is not one word said in Holy Scriptures.

Never was Satan’s wisdom so craftily used as when he secured universal acceptance of this traditional belief: for it has succeeded in fixing the attention of mankind on the letter and the means, and thus binding the eyes to the solemn fact that the fall of man had to do solely with the word of God, and is centered in the sin of believing Satan’s lie instead of Yahaveh’s truth. The history of Gen. 3 is intended to teach us the fact that Satan’s sphere of activities is in the religious sphere, and not the spheres of crime and immorality; that his battlefield is not the sins arising from human depravity, but the unbelief of the human heart. We are not to look for Satan’s activities today in newspapers or in people’s courts; but in the pulpit, and in professor’s chairs. Satan is quite content that the letter of scripture should be accepted in Gen.3, as he himself accepted the letter of Psalms 91:11. He himself could say “it is written’ (Matt. 4:6) so long as the letter of what is “written” could be put instead of the truth that is conveyed by it; and so long as it is misquoted or misapplied. This is his object in perpetuating the traditions of the “snake” and the “apple”. because it ministers to the acceptance of his lie, the hiding of God’s truth, the support of tradition, the jeers of the infidel, the oppositions of the critics, and the stumbling of the weak in faith. EVE HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH SATAN. YOU MIGHT SAY HOW ABOUT ADAM? SATAN CAN TAKE MANY FORMS. THEY COVERED THEIR PRIVATE PARTS WITH FIG LEAVES, NOT THEIR MOUTH. God reveals truth to the ones who are hungry for it.

So, I asked “Heteropaternal superfecundation has been suggested re: Cain & Abel. Any thoughts on that?” (insert link to appropriate episode from 

Satan is the father of Cain; Adam is the father of Abel. It’s very easy to check it out. Cain is not in Adam’s genealogy. For example: Lameck of Cain had Jubal and Tubal-Cain. Adam’s Lamech had Noah. Also Cain’s Enoch was a builder of cities. Adam’s Enoch was taken by God.

Jesus tells us about Cain’s children and who their father is in John 8:42-47, Matt. 13:24-40, Rev.3:9. Paul talks about them in I John 3:12.

end of thread that was originally started on Twitter by https://x.com/AnnaKlironomou (see https://x.com/AnnaKlironomou/status/1583824610306293760)

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