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Artist's rendition of the serpent form taken by Satan in The Garden of Eden (AVOID AT ALL COST, fellow Christians)
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The serpent is never said to actually be Satan. That is something later Christians only put together centuries later
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I'm curious about the Jewish interpretation of the serpent. What is it, in their eyes? I believe Jews view Satan less as the embodiment of evil, and more as the "devil's advocate" whose role it is to argue against God's laws so they can be better understood. !jidf do any of you know Jewish theology well?
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From what I see, Jews do not believe in a single Satan, the closest to a Satan figure that they believe in is the Satan of the Book of Job, HaSatan (The Accuser) is a title, not a name, Jews also do not believe that Angels can rebel, so the Satan from Job is still an Angel of God that is fully under his control and obeys God's orders, just like the Angel of Death in Exodus, he is one of the Angels that are sent by God to tempt people.
The serpent in the Eden is just a talking snake, that's it.
!christians !jidf
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What does Jewish theodicy look like then?
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idk lol
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Satan as a fricking character is a fricking later invention iirc, we really only learn who he is fricking in the fricking New Testament (cast out of heaven as Lucifer). Obviously he exists in the fricking OT but he is fricking kind of just a fricking butthead as opposed to the fricking cosmological force of evil that Christians see him as.
I think that the fricking Jews literally thought that it was fricking just an evil talking snake. After all, this existed as oral tradition prior to being written down, and if it was fricking oral tradition that it was fricking another evil being in disguise, wouldn't they write that down, b-word? Instead Genesis literally says that THE fricking SNAKE was the fricking craftiest of all creatures.
This makes sense because Jews viewed some animals as being unclean, like pigs and shellfish.
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Jews don't necessarily think
of the animals 
themselves as unclean, that's more of an Islam 
thing
In Judaism at least from what I was taught and what I read, it's more of a "god said so" thing
The real reason is really
more of a health thing, when in the super 
hot areas they lived in, very fatty 
meat like pork doesn't store well, and it's easier to get sick and stuff
As for the shellfish, again it's often more just ancestral knowledge of what foods were safe, all the fish that fall under
being kosher are all safe to eat, any fish or seafood 
animal 
that's poisonous ends up being not kosher, but the rules 
are obviously more vague so a lot of safe stuff is also not kosher either
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The fricking Bible specifically calls them unclean doe, for instance in Leviticus
as an example from the fricking NT of how people reacted to "unclean" animals:
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perhaps, but that is a fricking contemporary reading of the fricking Bible from a fricking scientific perspective. there is no fricking evidence that the fricking Jews believed that the fricking reason for this is fricking that they would get sick afaik
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Nono the Jews definitely didn't believe
that, that's definitely a modern 
interpretation of what might have been the origin of these food laws
But darn guess
I need to go back and reread some stuff
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A very mean snake
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Satan is Yakub and we're living in the fallout
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Funny, but r-slurred. Yakub is just the Nation of Islam's way of spelling Jacob, who is a human who wasn't even born when the Garden of Eden happened.
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Neighbor the comment's a joke.
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Yakub created
the whites, he's Satan 
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