One of the more perplexing things about the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is the nature of the snake. In Genesis, it's a snake. Through the broken-telephone retconning of Jewish tales into the NT, the snake suddenly becomes Satan.
That's why I insist on some clarity as to the Fall itself, the subject of this thread. Was the concept of people being condemned to hell from birth even a consideration in the foundational myths, or is this just another retcon?
That's why I insist on some clarity as to the Fall itself, the subject of this thread. Was the concept of people being condemned to hell from birth even a consideration in the foundational myths, or is this just another retcon?
