Genesis 3 Curses

[gbrooks9 (George Brooks)]

@Jon_Garvey

Where does it say (a) the serpent had limbs to begin with or (b) that it lost them? it doesn’t, to be blunt.

God’s curse is just that the serpent, which was always a serpent and not a lizard, will eat dust and go on its belly. Eating dust is clearly figurative (if one insisted on stupid literalism eating dust would directly contradict the command in Gen 1 that all animals should eat only vegetables, so God wouldn’t contradict it!)

@Jon_Garvey

The question can only be resolved by asking what you think the readers of old thought Genesis meant.

The Hebrew word used was:

H5175

nachash

There’s quite a few people who think the story EXPLAINS how snakes lost their legs.

What animal do YOU think was being cursed?.. what animal do you think was cursed to have its head crushed by human heels?