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Why Did He Create The Cunning Serpent?
By banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, God is inflicting a great deal of punishment for simply eating from a tree that they were not supposed to. Eve speculated to the serpent before eating from the tree that surely, she would die if she ate from the tree, but the snake claimed that she would not die, but become aware of good and evil. By deciding not to kill Adam and Eve, he affirms the serpent’s assertion. However, the expulsion signifies the establishment of man’s free will, and sets the course for the whole bible as the battle of man against himself. The obvious question after reading Genesis one and two is why, if God created everything on earth, did he create the cunning serpent? This question leads you to believe that
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