1) God's word is just. If he says something shall be one way and it is not, it is unjust, regardless of reason or our perception of what is fair.
2) We cannot fathom what His motive was for doing this or why he planned it this way, because clearly he knew what was going to happen both because he is timeless and because it was pretty obvious. We can really assume anything about this situation because we don't know what choices were involved or why He wanted things to turn out the way they did. Refferring back to #1, its irrelevant anyway because whatever his reasons were they were just, since God defines what justice is.
I was hoping there was a better answer than that but maybe "because God says so" IS the only explanation that can be given.
Whether the serpent is Satan himself or not I guess isn't important. Regardless, it is a malicious creature that wanted to do harm to humans and shouldn't have been allowed access to a paradise. Maybe this is another of those things a human couldn't possibly understand since we don't see the big picture.
I tried to find information on angels but couldn't find anything regarding their free will so if you ever came up with anything, I'm still curious.
1) God's word is just. If he says something shall be one way and it is not, it is unjust, regardless of reason or our perception of what is fair.
2) We cannot fathom what His motive was for doing this or why he planned it this way, because clearly he knew what was going to happen both because he is timeless and because it was pretty obvious. We can really assume anything about this situation because we don't know what choices were involved or why He wanted things to turn out the way they did. Refferring back to #1, its irrelevant anyway because whatever his reasons were they were just, since God defines what justice is.
I was hoping there was a better answer than that but maybe "because God says so" IS the only explanation that can be given.
Whether the serpent is Satan himself or not I guess isn't important. Regardless, it is a malicious creature that wanted to do harm to humans and shouldn't have been allowed access to a paradise. Maybe this is another of those things a human couldn't possibly understand since we don't see the big picture.
I tried to find information on angels but couldn't find anything regarding their free will so if you ever came up with anything, I'm still curious.
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