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The Problem of Pain: 6. What’s Up with the Talking Snake?

Before we look at the serpent himself, understanding what kind of place the Garden of Eden actually was will help us understand why other talking creatures were around in the first place. Maybe you’ve read the end of Genesis 3 before and wondered why the cherubim (plural) show up with no prior explanation. …at theContinue reading “The Problem of Pain: 6. What’s Up with the Talking Snake?”

The Problem of Pain: 4. Hostility Between Two Seeds

For a good portion of my life as a Christian, if you asked me to categorize supernatural beings in a hierarchical form and divide them into good guys and bad guys, it would have looked something like this: God Satan Angels Demons The problem with my viewpoint (among other things) was that it treated SatanContinue reading “The Problem of Pain: 4. Hostility Between Two Seeds”