Satan is depicted as reptilian.
Isa 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 20:1-2
(1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
(2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Why is that, why is the arch-enemy of God depicted in the Bible as reptilian? I have wondered about this, and maybe others have too. Well, it traces of course back to Eden, and the first input of an adversarial nature to beset mankind, the first as it happens of many more such inputs into mankind's sentience. From Genesis to Revelation, from the first book to the last book of the Bible it is fitting that the adversarial nature of the Satan be personified in the cunning, writhing, slithery, subtle, cold-blooded scaly, serpent/dragon epithet.
And then there's the theology of why God lets Satan input mankind for so long with his reptilian adversarial nature...(to be continued)
Isa 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 20:1-2
(1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
(2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Why is that, why is the arch-enemy of God depicted in the Bible as reptilian? I have wondered about this, and maybe others have too. Well, it traces of course back to Eden, and the first input of an adversarial nature to beset mankind, the first as it happens of many more such inputs into mankind's sentience. From Genesis to Revelation, from the first book to the last book of the Bible it is fitting that the adversarial nature of the Satan be personified in the cunning, writhing, slithery, subtle, cold-blooded scaly, serpent/dragon epithet.
And then there's the theology of why God lets Satan input mankind for so long with his reptilian adversarial nature...(to be continued)
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