Snakes in paradise

Hitro · Sep 4, 2006

What did they look like?

Tell me if I am wrong as I have never read the thing myself, but what I recall from school or whereever the story is roughly as follows:

- Snake gets Adam to take forbidden apple

- Snakes get punished by the Lord, they from now on have to crawl on the earth or however its put without any limbs

This leaves the question, did they move differently in paradise? And subsequently, what did they look like?

Is there anything about this in the bible? Anywhere else?

brennan · Sep 4, 2006

Hmm, well snakes have vestigial legs IIRC. The creator (bless 'im) obviously didn't do a very good job when he took them away. More Unintelligent Design.

skadistic · Sep 4, 2006

Snakes did have limbs long ago. Many stil do but they are small and useless for walking. Now they are used as a sexual aid to get a better grip on females.

Rambuchan · Sep 4, 2006

You should watch Ricky Gervais' routine that goes by the name of "Animals". He addresses all this in that.

Quoting Gervais as the snake speaking to God, from memory:

"Hold on, you want me to crawl around on my belly for the rest of my days as punishment for taking mankind's innocence and causing the Fall of Man? Me? A snake? On my belly?!!

Oh man! Yup, yup, yup! You got me there God. Whoa, ouch. Please, no more."

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PS. It's Eve who is tempted by the serpent, to eat of the forbidden fruit. And she then goes and tempts Adam. Not the other way around.

Hitro · Sep 4, 2006

I see.

Any non-evolutionary explanations for how they looked before?

Elrohir · Sep 4, 2006

Hitro said:
What did they look like?

Tell me if I am wrong as I have never read the thing myself, but what I recall from school or whereever the story is roughly as follows:

- Snake gets Adam to take forbidden apple

- Snakes get punished by the Lord, they from now on have to crawl on the earth or however its put without any limbs

This leaves the question, did they move differently in paradise? And subsequently, what did they look like?

Is there anything about this in the bible? Anywhere else?

Why don't you just read th story for yourself, then ask your questions? It will take you about 5 minutes.

Rambuchan · Sep 4, 2006

Elrohir said:
Why don't you just read th story for yourself, then ask your questions? It will take you about 5 minutes.

Personally, I think God threw his toys out of the pram on this occasion. Totally overreacted.

brennan · Sep 4, 2006

God told A&E they would die if they ate the stupid apple. This was a lie.

God accused the serpent of deceiving Eve, how?

Why did G put the sodding thing there in the first place? To be eaten and give mankind freewill? It's all his fault if you ask me.

Bozo Erectus · Sep 4, 2006

Judging from how he was able to woo Eve so easily, he must have looked something like this:

classical_hero · Sep 4, 2006

From the title, I thought this was a thread about Steve Irwin.

Rambuchan · Sep 4, 2006

Bozo Erectus said:
Judging from how he was able to woo Eve so easily, he must have looked something like this:

Or like this...

^ The most excellent 'Pepé Le Pew'

Bozo Erectus · Sep 4, 2006

Too furry for a future snake

Taliesin · Sep 4, 2006

According to Milton, the serpent must have walked upright, resting on the hind part of its tail, something like this:

|-;-|........
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I'm not sure this is a particularly plausible answer, but it has its charms.

Rambuchan · Sep 4, 2006

Bozo Erectus said:
Too furry for a future snake

That was sloppy of me. I was blinded by my faith in Pepe.

Eran of Arcadia · Sep 4, 2006

It wasn't an apple, that part came about later in Christian tradition.

Also, Adam and Eve did die as a result, just several hundred years later. So God wasn't lying, the serpent was when he said they wouldn't.

warpus · Sep 4, 2006

Eran of Arcadia said:
It wasn't an apple, that part came about later in Christian tradition.

Carrot? ...

Cheezy the Wiz · Sep 4, 2006

warpus said:
Carrot? ...

So the snake looked like this?

Irish Caesar · Sep 4, 2006

warpus said:
Carrot?

I've heard it was more likely a quince.

DYNAMICS · Sep 4, 2006

You guys make fun of a story that is a lesson to us humans. If Adam did not eat the fruit then something else would of brought us here. It was a case of “when” not “if”. This world is a pass life, into the hereafter. By your free will that lord has given you, you must decide whether or not you choose to believe in him. Remember folks every soul shall taste death.

Cheezy the Wiz · Sep 4, 2006

DYNAMICS said:
You guys make fun of a story that is a lesson to us humans. If Adam did not eat the fruit then something else would of brought us here. It was a case of when not if. This world is a pass life, into the hereafter. By your free will that lord has given you, you must decide whether or not you choose to believe in him. Remember folks every soul shall taste death.

I'm sorry your heartrate is so high, but we can poke fun at whatever we want, it doesn't mean I don't believe or that I'm going to Hell because we had fun with how Satan looked in the Garden of Eden. So grow up and get over yourself, it's not worth getting worked and ranting about.

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