I showed you the verse that tells us God made the serpent more cunning and crafty for the purpose of saving much people alive.
The serpent is representative of Satan. Yes, as God created the serpent with a character to deceive, the serpent too was part of that which God created "very good". You're assuming making the serpent with this nature is evil, but as I've said God used him to save His people.
I think Tribs cuts 1 Cr 11:3 down to one verse to reduce the serpent down to a beast made within the woman, thise having this inner serpent in her when Paul says
2 Cr 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Cr 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
When the next verse tells us, of a "he that cometh" preaching another, or of receiving another spirit which they had not here
2 Cr 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
How did the serpent attempt to deceive her, but with his words
Gen 3:1 Yea, hath God said
The man and the woman in Genesis are spoken of here
Ephes 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
And so similarly,
2 Cr 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty
The same here, after the word is sown, guess who showed up in the garden?
Rev 12:9... that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world
Same here...
Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
The thief cometh to steal the word is sown the heart (Mark 4:15 & Gen 3:1)
Yea, hath God said (In the similitude)
Same with these, ye are of your father the devil, the lusts of your father ye shall do
The word stealers
Jerm 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
These being deceivers, ,
that use their tongues, and say, "He saith."
Jerm 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that use their tongues, and say, He saith. (Yea, hath God said)
This is the "
he that cometh" and preacheth another, as one seeking to beguile the Church as he that beguileth Eve
TribulationSigns might say at least, in part here (as he has on another thread)
The serpent worked within Eve's mind. It wasn't a created angelic being
But again, that is not what it is showing there, following into the next verse
2 Cr 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
And stops there (to show some inner serpent)
but Paul continues
For "if he that cometh" is mentioned behind it
2 Cr 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,
or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
All of which they had not recieved, nor accpeted, but bear with him
And the "
he that cometh" there is indeed a created being, and the spirit that worketh within him is a lie, one of deception, he is both deceived and deceiving and in this case ttempting to do so with the woman (a figure of the Church Ephes 5:32) who would have the truth that abides in her/ his Church, not that old serpent, the devil or satan seeing he is all of those (Rev 12:9, Rev 20:2).
The
"tempter came to" Jesus
Mat 4:3 And
when the tempter "came to" him...
Paul said, I sent to know your faith
1 Thes 3:5 ..."
lest by some means"
the tempter have tempted you...
And again,
"lest by any means" (as the serpent, who is the tempter) beguiled Eve shown here as well
2 Cr 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, "as the serpent" beguiled Eve ...
And the next verse ( if we dont leave that off) behind vs 3 Paul says,
2 Cr 11:4 For
"if he that cometh"...
These show an outside influence such as "a false prophet", or a "he that cometh". Someone who tries to persuade with words.
Something can be without which can tempt us from within according to a specific lust, which are not to walk by.
And so if there is a tempter, he will attempt to tempt us, and when we are sucessfully tempted, James says,
James 1:14 But every man
is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
So if Tribs might say,
"The serpent worked within Eve's mind"
I can somewaht agree, that his words might be at work in there. Maybe she will consider those (before casting them down) because "he that cometh" can come wth deceiving and enticing words as any false prophet can come with the same.
1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
And theres the word ashamed planted right there, thats fitting.