I was actually THINKING...

by joannadandy 14 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  joannadandy

  Ok--very unlike me to be reflective or meditate...especially on things of a biblical nature, but today I was home sick and left with thoughts and a lot of cold medicine, so here I am with my bible based thought of the day...what do you people make of this:

  "And the Lord God said unto the serpent Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life"

  Does that mean snakes had legs at some point? And why did God punish the snake? Like it was his fault he was the chosen vessel of Satan. OR WORSE! What if snakes had wings? I'd crap myself if we lived in an age of flying snakes!! OH THE HUMANITY! Is this why I have such a deep fear of snakes today? Why can't they just chew their food like all other creatures? WHY MUST THEY SWALLOW IT WHOLE?

  Or does this just go to show the Bible is a silly little book that can be fun to read?

  Have any of you read Genesis...cripes, literary critics would be all over the dude who wrote this, the construction is awful, the characters are life-less and bland! The storyline is lame! And don't even get me started on the dialouge and plot holes!

  Ok I am going back to bed now...thinking hurts!

  Edited by - joannadandy on 3 October 2002 16:28:43
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  Matty

  Joanna, that's certainly a thought! God cut the legs off all snakes because one was used as a ventriloquist's dummy for Satan! The bible is full of people taking the rap for others misdemeanours, so why not animal's too!?
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  joannadandy

  I see your point matty--

  But come on! No one else has an opinion on walking snakes...I'm curious! For real, it has nothing to do with Nyquil!
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  Dutchie

  Joanna, maybe at one point snakes flew and as punishment they were doomed to slither around on the ground.

  Maybe they never had legs at all. Maybe they originally had wings!

  Just a thought.
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  pomegranate

  Maybe it's all 100% metaphor.
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  joannadandy

  Fine...what's the metaphor then? Serious...this is bugging me...
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  pomegranate

  Equating loathsome spirit creature with loathsome physical creature.
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  joannadandy

  Well yeah I get that part...snake is a puppet, satan is a nasty snake in the grass type creature...but why curse it to crawl on it's belly...implying that it did not before locomote in a belly fashion...
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  pomegranate

  but why curse it to crawl on it's belly...

  If the "serpent" is metaphorical for a spiritual creature, so would the terms of the "curse" be metaphorical for a spiritual demeaning.

  When I analyze Genesis, I keep like terms, just as in Algebra. If the equation begins in metaphor, keep it all metaphor. If you change a term to spritual, change ALL the terms to spiritual.
  
  ..implying that it did not before locomote in a belly fashion...

  There are more terms of clearly visible metaphor inside this...one plainly is snakes do not eat dust. But God has this snake eating the dust. Metaphor for the LOW STATION, the LOWEST of the LOW that this creature had managed to become.

  Satan was not created as a "low life belly crawler"...he was CURSED into being such in the eyes of his Superior because of his own CRAFTY words and actions...

  Edited by - pomegranate on 3 October 2002 22:29:1
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  joannadandy

  If the equation begins in metaphor, keep it all metaphor

  So what preceeds this is adam and eve eating of the tree...does this mean this is a metaphor too, there was no real tree?