Tintin, I recently told a friend of mine that I believe someone could spend an entire month studying Gen. 3:15. ("And I will put enmity between...")
I had never heard "shiny one" til now. My concordance says as previously posted, "a snake from it's whisper, hiss, majic spell, enchanter,diligently observe". Even without the outside info of snake, it is obvious from the Bible alone that this creature Eve was speaking to, convinced her to disobey God.Then she convinced Adam. A human can also convince us to disobey God.
My reasoning for studying these verses, (as you, I found it hard to believe it was referring to a snake), was because of my study in end time prophecies. It was made so clear to me that if I wanted to KNOW the full aspect of Biblical meaning in end time prophecy, that I needed to go back to the beginning of humanity on earth, to understand the end of humanity's time on earth. The Bible comes full circle. beginning to end. It was made clear by my own reasoning, no human suggested such.
It doesn't matter, in interpretation or understanding to me, what type of creature this was. I don't believe in evolution as they describe how it works, but interestingly enough, proponents of evolution say snakes used to have legs. Dragons today have legs. I believe the Millenial kingdom will be similar to the garden of Eden wherein the animals dwelled peacably with humans & vice versa. The animals were friendly before Eve ate the apple. Maybe the snake did talk & it wasn't unusual to Adam & Eve because they hadn't been there long enough to even have children yet? Some people are more gullible than others. How unusual would it be, or how ASTOUNDING would it be to see God walk around our house & talk face to face with HIM? So "unusual" probably wasn't in their vocabulary. Later, people didn't find the Nephilim unusual either!!
After witnessing God Himself, nothing would be unusual, a talking snake or reptile would be a breeze to accept. In fact, evolutionists make have given us Biblical archaeological evidence to support that God removed the snake's legs. One pastor said that the snake today is a constant reminder of the fall of man, original sin, & our necessity to "not be decieved" as Adam & Eve were, even though they were face to face with God, they still believed the serpent.
As for Gen 3:15, The "her seed" is Jesus Christ, which most Christians agree on. "...thy seed" is satan's seed as God is talking to the serpent/satan. So some take that to mean that Eve got pregnant by the serpent or satan & that was Cain resulting=satan's seed. Is there Scripture to support this theory? The aforementioned verse about "not counting Cain" etc etc. It's possible a child could have died. Noah was Eve's seed, & not Adam's? After the flood, there should be no more serpent seed if Cain was the serpent seed & if Noah was not serpent seed. However, Nephilim were found after the flood, which could only mean that serpent seed was not "a descendant of Cain".
