[Just mythoughts]

"Ahaa, so the serpent was not a snake or a serpent. Since the Bible proves that Gen 2 is figurative, we can discard the literal story and take it as a figurative spiritual lesson.

You can't have it both ways. The Noah story is the same. When something is obviously figurative, since the facts don't jive with reality, we can't insist someone believe it literally."

You know very well "IF" in fact that you can read 'HEBREW' that the snake and or the serpent of Genesis is NOT a literal physical snake.

[shubi]

"You know very well "IF" in fact that you can read 'HEBREW' that the snake and or the serpent of Genesis is NOT a literal physical snake."

I take the whole Adam and Eve segment figuratively as a spiritual lesson. But I don't think it is all that clear from the text that the serpent isn't a serpent, unless you take evolution as a fact and know that snakes did not have their legs cut off all of a sudden, but it was a more gradual evolutionary process. The evidence for this is that some snakes still have vestigial leg bones.

You know if you are going to call me a liar all the time, it is not much fun to talk to you. I speak, read, and used to be able to write Hebrew, but am out of practice at writing now.

[Lurking Libertarian]

You know very well "IF" in fact that you can read 'HEBREW' that the snake and or the serpent of Genesis is NOT a literal physical snake.

How so? I read hebrew and it is clearly, to me, a literal snake being described in Genesis 3- crawls on the ground, bites people's heals, etc.