[onedoug]

I don’t see God contradicting his own word with regard to the serpent.

And just one example of Satan in the universe before Man? Just one?

[CatherineofAragon]

"I don’t see God contradicting his own word with regard to the serpent."

You must have missed a part, then.

God told Adam that eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would cause them to die.

The serpent told Eve that they would not die if they ate from the tree. If the serpent was God, he contradicted himself and made himself out to be a liar.

Which is not possible, of course.

"And just one example of Satan in the universe before Man? Just one?"

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean...before Man?