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Paradise Prospects Valid Despite Human DisobedienceThe Watchtower—1989 | August 1
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7. (a) How does the Bible account describe God’s judicial dealing with the serpent? (b) How could the serpent who deceived the first woman also deceive us? (Include comment on footnote.)
7 Describing God’s judicial dealing with that serpent in the garden of Eden, the account says: “And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: ‘Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat all the days of your life.
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Paradise Prospects Valid Despite Human DisobedienceThe Watchtower—1989 | August 1
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(Genesis 3:14, 15) Any sober court deals with facts and sifts real evidence, not legends. Jehovah God was not making himself foolish, silly, by directing his judicial sentence to a mythical serpent but was passing judgment upon a factual, existing creature that was accountable.
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