It is not my logic. It is a story. Read it again. Not once does it say the snake was Satan. It claims the snake was subtle/craftiest over all other beasts of the field. Snakes, something they dealt with in the desert. They bit their heals and they crushed snakes’ heads, like it said. Man assumed that was prophetic. Food from trees, something they could relate to. I’m just reading the story like it was delivered. You can believe in talking snakes and miraculous forbidden fruit all you want. Christ barely taught a lesson without a parable. It’s all about relatability. If the Bible was every bit as obvious as you claim then there would be no debates it. Casting insults is childish. I don’t assume you love the Lord less than I do because you don’t agree with me. We are all supposed to be one Body. Trees and fruit reminds me of another metaphor used by Christ. I am His, even if we disagree on my interpretation. I don’t doubt you are. Blessings, back to the garden...the real garden. It’s the nicest day this spring where I’m at.
Do you read every book as a metaphor? Is Romans 5 a metaphor? Is sin a metaphor? Is death a metaphor?
Romans 5:12-21 (KJV) Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also
is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,
which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as
it was by one that sinned,
so is the gift: for the judgment
was by one to condemnation, but the free gift
is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one
judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
I have mentioned Romans 5 a number of times but you keep ignoring it. I guess Paul believes in fables and therefore most of the NT is a Fable because he wrote a big chunk of it.
Do you also consider the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ a fable or a metaphor?