One of the most provocative evidences that the Serpent must be human comes from Ge 3:1.\u00a0 It states that the Serpent \u201cbecame crafty\u201d above all beasts of the field.\u00a0 This means its mind became naked or exposed to devious thoughts.\u00a0 As we shall see, only a human mind can become crafty.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Serpent\u2019s act of becoming naked to devious thoughts eerily mirrors Adam\u2019s act of coming to know both good and evil and his own nakedness by eating from the Tree of Knowledge.\u00a0 This strongly hints at the Serpent being human and on par with Adam.\u00a0 Only Lilith can explain this other human on an equal basis with Adam.<\/p>\n
Ge 3:1 states that the Serpent became \u201ccrafty.\u201d\u00a0 The Hebrew word for crafty is aruwm<\/em> (Mwre<\/span> – Strongs 6175).\u00a0 As the Gesenius lexicon and others point out, aruwm<\/em> is simply the past participle of the root aram<\/em> (Mre<\/span> – Strongs 6191). \u00a0Thus, aram<\/em> and aruwn<\/em> are the same word. \u00a0Aram<\/em> has two meanings.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 It can mean \u201cnaked\u201d, or it can mean \u201cprudent\u201d or \u201ccrafty.\u201d\u00a0 Gesenius holds that the root\u2018s most literal meaning is \u201cnaked\u201d, and that it also came to mean \u201ccrafty\u201d in the sense that when one\u2019s mind is made naked to malevolent thoughts, it becomes crafty.\u00a0 Thus to have a \u201cnaked\u201d mind (open to devious thoughts) is to be crafty.\u00a0<\/p>\n That aram<\/em> has the dual meanings of \u201cnaked\u201d and \u201ccrafty\u201d is easily demonstrated.\u00a0 The exact root spelling of aruwm in Ge 3:1 (sp Mwre<\/span>) appears 19 times in the Bible.\u00a0 Of these 19 times, the KJV renders it 9 times as \u201cnaked.\u201d\u00a0 The other 10 times the KJV renders it \u201cprudent\u201d or \u201ccrafty.\u201d\u00a0 Thus, the exact same word has two meanings.\u00a0<\/p>\n Based on its dual meanings, the actual meaning of aram in any passage can only be determined based on the context in which the word is used.\u00a0 Therefore, Ge 3:1 can be poetically understood to say that the Serpent \u201cbecame naked\u201d instead of \u201cbecame crafty.\u201d\u00a0 Indeed, both are statements true.\u00a0 The serpent became naked of mind in order to become crafty.\u00a0 Why is this important?\u00a0 In Ge 3:7, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge, their eyes were opened and they knew they were ayrom<\/em> (Mrye<\/span>, \u201cnaked\u201d).\u00a0 Thus, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree, they became ayron<\/em> (naked).\u00a0 Likewise, when the Serpent became crafty, it became aruwn<\/em> (Mwre<\/span>, i.e. naked of mind).\u00a0 This poetic word-play suggests that events surrounding the Serpent becoming crafty must have been very similar to events in which Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge.\u00a0 This notion is also supported by simple logic.\u00a0 When Adam and Eve ate, they also must have become crafty like the Serpent, for they gained knowledge of good and evil and their minds were \u201copened\u201d, becoming exposed to devious thoughts.<\/p>\n The parallelism between the Serpent\u2019s craftiness and Adam and Eve\u2019s nakedness can be further demonstrated.\u00a0 Ge 3:1 states that the Serpent \u201cbecame\u201d crafty.\u00a0 Thus, the Serpent was not always crafty, but through some transformative event, it \u201cbecame\u201d crafty.\u00a0 The Hebrew word for \u201cbecame\u201d is hayah<\/em> (hyh<\/span> \u2013 Strong 1961).\u00a0 This is the same key root word which in section 3.8 showed that Adam \u201chad become\u201d alone.\u00a0 The first time that hayah<\/em> appears spelled exactly as in Ge 3:1 (sp hyh<\/span>) elsewhere in the Bible comes in Ge 3:22.\u00a0 There it is stated that in eating of the Tree of Knowledge the man Adam \u201cbecame\u201d (hayah<\/em>) as God in knowing good and evil.\u00a0 Thus, based on its PFA, the mystical meaning of hayah<\/em> denotes the transformational event of a person beginning to know good and evil through eating of the Tree of Knowledge.\u00a0 This implies the Serpent ate of the Tree of Knowledge and \u201cbecame\u201d crafty, knowing good and evil.\u00a0<\/p>\n And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become (<\/u>hayah)<\/u> as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Few details are available concerning the Serpent Lilith\u2019s possible eating of the Tree of Knowledge.\u00a0 Unlike Adam, for her it was probably not a condemning event.\u00a0 There was no command given to her not to eat of the Tree.\u00a0 Indeed, the Serpent is only judged by God for using its craftiness to deceive Eve and causing her and Adam to fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n In summary, when Genesis relates that the Serpent \u201cbecame crafty\u201d, it relating some significant clues about the Serpent.\u00a0 First, only a human mind can become crafty.\u00a0 Furthermore, the act of becoming crafty implies the Serpent ate of the Tree and \u201cbecame naked\u201d of mind, just as Adam ate of the Tree and \u201cbecame naked\u201d with the knowledge of good and evil.\u00a0 This word play and parallelism between the Serpent and Adam suggests that the Serpent was human, and on a par with Adam.\u00a0 Only Lilith explains this human\u2019s origins.\u00a0<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> When the aram<\/em> root means \u2018naked\u2019, Strongs identifies it as arom<\/em> (Mre<\/span> – Strongs 5903) or its variant spelling ayrom<\/em> (Mrye<\/span>).\u00a0 When the aram<\/em> root means \u2018crafty\u2019, Strongs identifies it as aram<\/em> or aruwn<\/em>.\u00a0 However, all the words are the same and often share the same spelling in passages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most provocative evidences that the Serpent must be human comes from Ge 3:1.\u00a0 It states that the Serpent \u201cbecame crafty\u201d above all beasts of the field.\u00a0 This means its mind became naked or exposed to devious thoughts.\u00a0 As we shall see, only a human mind can become crafty.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Serpent\u2019s act … Continue reading “3.13) The Serpent Became 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