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"Couldn't God have changed snakes from having legs to crawling on their bellys at the same time he cursed Satan ?"

NO!!

Snakes appeared in the fossil record LONG before modern man did. As a matter of fact, they may have appeared before even our predecessors like the Australopithecines did. The time frames are all wrong!!

The passage has allegorical and symbolic significance wnad relate to the Hebrew perspecitve of serpents, and their worship by neighboring pagan tribes. The ancient Minoans worshipped snakes, so did the Greeks and Romans. Ever see the symbol for medicine? It has two snakes intertwined on a staff as a symbol of Aescupalius, the Ancient Roman God of medicine. Its OBVIOUSLY symbolic. We DON'T worship snakes.

[VRWC_minion]

Snakes appeared in the fossil record LONG before modern man did. As a matter of fact, they may have appeared before even our predecessors like the Australopithecines did. The time frames are all wrong!!

What literal passage tells you what the time frame is for this Garden of Eden event. Moreso, what literal place it this where God walks in the garden and which is protected by a Cheribum. You have assumed a time frame and a place.