Difficult Bible Questions

Q: Did God create the serpent or the snake?

A: Nothing existed by itself, everything was created by God, and God called all His creation very good, that include the serpent or the snake. Even satan who was fallen angel, also created by God.
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made


Q: How the serpent in the Garden of Eden became satan?

A: That was because satan took possession of the body of the serpent.


Q: Can the serpent or the snake become satan or sin against God?

A: Before the fall, there is no sin existed. The serpent was God very good creation. The serpent cannot sin against God to tempt Adam and Eve. It was because satan possessed the snake.


Q: Why did God cursed the snake when it did not sin against God, it was the evil one.

A: It could be God is cursing satan who was in the snake, not the snake itself. satan's head will be crushed by the woman seed, not the snake. Satan probably crawling on it's belly now, eating dust. Snake still eating living things. Another explanation could be God has the right to curse animals because of the sin on another. Just like the animal kingdom was cursed because of Adam's sin. Hence, when satan (who had sin), possess the snake, God has the right to curse the snake because satan's sin affected the snake. Satan and his demons can possessed human being, and were sent to possess the pigs and all the pigs died. When sin on satan possessed in something, that thing will become God's curse. Likewise, when sin possessed human being. human being become a curse.


Q: Are all the animals, including lions, tigers and all meat eating animals, were vegetarians?

A: Gen 1:29-30 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground — everything that has the breath of life in it — I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.


Q: Did Adam sin affected the animal kingdom?

A: Yes. Serpent did not sin against God before the fall.


Q: Did Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life before the fall?

A: Yes. God only commanded them not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God did not command them not to eat from the tree of life. And this was the 1st Law or commandment that God had issued to mankind.


Q: Did Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life?

A: Yes. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree (including the tree of life) in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the (one and only tree) tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Obviously, if they eat from the tree of live, they will certainly not die. Their sin will cancel out the effect of the tree of life and die. It was after their sin, that they are banned from eating from the tree of life. Now, Jesus is our tree of life.