visitor, where do you see the similarity between man and a serpent? and if the serpent was more human like before, how can it now be so different from us?
It was changed.....and the original race was exterminated....the hybrid offspring were the giants, they were wiped out about 1000 B.C.....not before they were mingled and interbred with humanity.
The only distinction today can be found in the soul, to have or not have representation in that other realm.
This reveals what is truely the "mark of the beast".
They can not receive revealtion from God, like Cain, and are deceived by spirits.
The beast in the begining is the beast in the end, uncover the trail of the serpent through history.
GENESIS 3:14
14 ¶ 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:
GENESIS 3:15
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
So God also created this Serpent you're talking about, and it was in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve? In a religious perspective, if it wasn't 'the Devil', then why did God create it? And was it a sole 'person', or was it a flock or a race?
Many parts of the bible are literal, and some are symbolic.
The bible is a sealed book, being the correct interpretation can only come from God.
No man can just guess it correctly.
The son of man Himself has come in this day and revealed the book....loosed the seals.
The serpent was a literal being, closest to man.....and a host for unclean spirits.
It has no reprsentation in God....or "soul" so like an animal it can be used of the "spirits"........so could it's offspring through Cain.
Today a mixture yet still exists in all our flesh, and a spirit thats at eminty or war with God....for a purpose.
Every form of the serpents'; body was changed in the curse, but Cain was fathered and the life is in the blood, the bloodline is passed through the male, so the original form was passed through Cain, even though the one that fathered him was gone.
Whether or not there were other "serpents" that were unchanged by the curse in the garden....the scriptures don't tell. I'm inclined to believe they were like the rest of the animals and there were two to start and probably a whole species by the time this event happened.
And I don't believe they were all changed.....only the one that was used in the stated offence.
This may be where Cain got his wife....in the land of Nod.
The bible doesn't concern us with "pre-adamic" civilization, because it is the revelation of God through the Word and Expressed in flesh through this new race....the sons of God.
However, Jesus and the prophets knew this revealtion and it is all through the scriptures in sealed form.
The devil, is a spirit being and used the serpent as a host to try to polute, infiltrate, and destroy God's new race...."the sons of God"
We are higher in power and authority than angels because angels are servants....and the sons of god are "family"....sons out of God's very own life, heir of all things.
Satan tried to block this....he is removed not only from heaven; (the soul realm) where he was cast out, but what Jesus did for us, relieves Him of his dominion over the earth, which our flesh is a type of, and the air,...a type of our spirit, He has been "prince of the power of the air" and fell heir to what Adam lost.
Jesus Christ, as the son of man has returned to be glorified IN his people.
He is the Word and by it we can cast down all that reasons against God.....the weapons of our warfare being spiritual....to remove spiritual wickedness in high places.
If you can believe it, now we are the sons of God, and are hier to every promise of God with authority to bring it to pass.
This is what Jesus came to do and has restored back.
The spiritual linage of the Sons of God on earth, with dominion over all things...
What Adam lost, he brought back.
To be redeamed means to be "brought back to where one was"
REVELATION 21:7
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
In John 6:37 & 44 it says,"All that the Father giveth Me shall come to me; and him that cometh to Me I shall in no wise cast out. No man can come to Me except the Father draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."
John 1:12-13, "But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God."
Ephesians 1:4-5, "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him. In love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."