On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 6:00:36 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:
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> "Snakes didn't evolve, instead talking snakes with legs changed
> into snakes." - Rick C. Hodgin
I write this not for Leigh Johnston, but for those who will come
across this tag he adds to his posts. As I pointed out over a
year ago, his quote is incorrect:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c++/IlPK_A7p1Og/5cz58_tXAwAJ
This quote Leigh ascribes to me is not a quote I wrote. I said this,
and I explained why it is:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c++/IlPK_A7p1Og/ZGjsIFZWAwAJ
"A talking serpent that God later changed to remove its legs,
forcing it to crawl on its belly."
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I came across this today listening to the DTBM channel on YouTube
and I wanted to post it for corroboration from someone who is not
me. This is from a PhD Bible Scholar that each of you should listen
to and learn from. He is such a good teacher, gentle and kind. He
will guide you with a firmness within a gentleness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV8qI9Zaa0o&t=37m17s
"And so when Satan snuck down there and started stalking around
in the Garden of Eden, and took and inhabited a serpent, which
by the way, from the Bible, serpents used to walk, and they
were the most beautiful animals of all before they were cursed,
and that's why [God] said, 'you're going to be in the dust for
the rest of your life.' That was part of the curse on the
serpent.
"And you say, 'Wait a minute. How do we know this is Satan?'
Because it says in the Bible in Chapter 12 of Revelation, 'The
old serpent, the dragon from old, Satan.' See, he was the
stalker of humanity from the very beginning."
Whatever it looked like before, it was a serpent, and it was beautiful
and cunning and it's why Satan targeted that creature to approach Eve.
That serpent has since become a snake, but it was something markedly
different before it was cursed for deceiving Eve and introducing sin.
It would've been of stunningly beautiful appearance.
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Rick C. Hodgin