Thanks for the response. Sorry for the formation of the statement.
It was a terrible way to put it.
I think the serpent was meant to refer to the Bible principle that God gave free will to man, and with it he chose to disobey God.
I should not have stated it as if it was a 'given' you were ignorant of, or that I insisted you believe.
So, when God had the snake slither away forever to eat dust, God was throwing evil out from 'within' man?
I don't believe God had the snake slither away forever to eat dust, and if God was throwing evil out from 'within' man, it didn't work.
Let me now ask, was the snake to blame for Eve's decision? Adam's?
Did God blame the snake? Is that why he told the snake he would be under the heel of man?
He was certainly ticked off at the serpent!
14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: