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Diogenes the Cynic:
One more point that may be worth mentioning is that the serpent in the Adam and Eve story is not Satan but is just a talking snake. The identification of the serpent as Satan is a Christian retrojection into a Sumerian creation myth.
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Actually the retrojection of Satan into the Garden of Eden began before the New Testament was written. Philo, answering a question about Genesis 3:5, wrote this:
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Philo
Moreover, the devil proceeds with great art, speaking by the mouth of the serpent. For not only is there in the Divinity the knowledge of good and evil, but there is also an approval of what is good and a repudiation of what is evil;
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The author of the Apocryphal book
The Wisdom of Solomon wrote the following:
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Wisdom of Solomon 2:23-24
23 for God created us for incorruption,
and made us in the image of his own eternity,
24 but through the devil's envy death entered the world,
and those who belong to his company experience it.
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06-16-2005, 06:19 PM
The Retrojection of Satan Into the Garden of Eden
