Question -About the Serpent Being or Satan? Hachash!!! Coming across your site I found interesting topics as are there in many other sites. You mentioned this Nachash creature which I take as an assumption not a fact. Any way assuming this assumption. You said that Adam did not find one comparable to him physically which is correct. Which is why Yah created Eve for him which I am sure was part of Yah’s plan all along. Then Adam said "this is flesh of my flesh bone of my bone." No question Adam had found one of his kind as a specie.
You mentioned this nachash exists today still but don’t know what they look like, yet you said they are a "race" of people. What a contradiction! This is that you plainly make. These are your own words which I read. How can they be a race of cunning deceptive race of people, which they have to be in order to be deceive the "Adamic race" which Adam himself did not recognized as created being such as himself. So you say they are mixed with the rest of humanity but don't know what they look like but they are not humanlike. I mean do you see my point of the illogic that I am reading as a reader?
You are making an assumption as a basis for your theology which I have read leads to the rest of your story of creation. This is supposed to be an enlightment site where one could go for real food, you said. While I whole-heartly attest to what I think is your heartfelt intention and you do have valuable information, I am sorry but at some point I just got to throw arms down for Yah to come to the rescue today right now.
SHALOM
Answer -The Hebrew root of the word "Nachash" means to "shine like brass" (to reflect light off the skin) and to "hiss or whisper" as in enchantment, to entice, or to seduce...as to be a "shinning enchanter."
Gen. 3:1, "And the Nachash was shrewd (or cunning) - more than every dweller of the field that YHWH Elohim made. And he said to the woman......."
a). It is clear from the above passage, that the "Nachash" and his family or race of people existed in the Garden as a field dweller during the time of the man Adam, and his woman Ishah (Eve).
b). It is also clear that the Nachash spoke to the woman, by the phrase "And he said to the woman." Snakes do not speak, only people do, so it is quite clear, that this Nachash was an intelligent individual of an other race, since he was not of Adams kind. (See Gen. 3: 4-5).
c). As a result of the Nachash deceiving the woman (Gen. 3: 13), the descendants of the Nachash were cursed by YHWH, (See Gen. 3: 15).
Gen. 3: 15, "And I will place hatred between you [the Nachash] and between the woman [Eve], and between your descendants [of the Nachash] and between her [Eve’s] descendants."
a). It is clear, from the above verse, that there is a curse "of hatred" to exist between the descendants of the woman (i.e. Adamites), and between the descendants of the Nachash, (i.e. a Non-Adamite race).
b). If the Nachash have descendants, which is very clear that they will, according the curse given them by YHWH, then they must also be a race (or at the very least a couple) of people, for only couples (not singles) can have descendants. It is also true, that only people can have or hold hatred! Animals do not have the ability to have or hold hatred.
NOTE: These passages of Genesis do NOT give us any "more" information about the Nachash or his descendants, or their appearance, except that there will be conflict between these two races of people; i.e. those of the Nachash and those of the Adamites.....(we would only be speculating if we describe the appearance of the descendants of the Nachash, or of this race of people). We do not know what they look like now. We do know that there is hatred between these people and those of Adamite (caucasian white) descent.
In your honest opinion now, do you really think that we are making very many assumptions here based on the "clear" truth of established Scripture? Or, is it maybe the Modern Church that is really making the assumptions here in order to be "politically correct" and to not be not offensive to anyone?
There is no doubt, that we have a different interpretation of Genesis, then what you may been told or led to believe, but to believe otherwise requires a lot more assumption or conjecture (in our humble opinion).
The Nachash, according with the record of the Scriptural evidence provided in Genesis, is not an assumption, but a Scriptural fact. As is the case with the correct understanding of much of Scripture, the simple logical truth is most often the one requiring the least amount of speculation, and the subsequent logical answer will be most often the most likely correct answer.
Is this answer still illogical to you as a reader?