The Bible tells us that the serpent disobeyed the Creator and therefore deserved death. However, its death did not occur immediately as we know. I believe that before daring to disobey the Creator, the serpent must have had a plan with high probability of succeeding. In addition, the serpent must have something profound to gain that would be worth the highest risk of disobedience against the Creator. My thinking is that the serpent must use logic and a lot of truth to try to deceive the Creator in a way that gives his plan a high possibility of succeeding. I also believe the serpent must have had a backup plan in case all else failed and this explains his delayed destruction.
One possible prize to gain in exchange for the risk of disobeying the Creator, is to become the Creator. I do not believe the serpent would dare to wish to become the Creator because that is impossible and the serpent knows it well.
Another possibility is that the serpent might request something from the Creator with great genuine and sincerity, trying to prove his love for the Creator. In other words, in order for the serpent to succeed in a plan against the Creator, it has to be packaged in a way that shows utmost love and dedication to the Creator and His plan. My thinking is that the serpent must have presented his plea to the Creator in a manner telling the Creator of his great love for the Creator and His Design plan − that he would desire to be the Creator’s words and to do anything the Creator’s plan requires. That is my thought and imagination, and could be wrong; but it can be presented to the Creator in a loving way, expressing a desire for being as close to the Creator as possible (which is what Christians call the World of God, the Son of Man Jesus Christ). That is my imagination; it is a scenario that is worth sacrifice and it can be presented in an honest way to the Creator with the possibility that He will grant it to the serpent.
However, the Creator’s Copyright design was born complete at its inception, meaning that the Design for the serpent’s duties (we read that he was an angel) was already structured and therefore, the serpent’s desire or request, although sounding loving, represents disobedience to the Creator’s original copyright plan. If the Creator granted the serpent’s wish to become the Creator’s words, the serpent knows (from what we understand about the Messiah), that would result in the serpent becoming one flesh with the Creator. In other words, it would result in the serpent permanently becoming the word of the Creator who will permanently be ONE with the serpent. That is only my imagination about the unknown.
Secondly, the serpent must have had a dependable backup plan before facing off with the Creator, because the failure of the serpent’s plan would mean the permanent destruction of the serpent, a punishment that cannot be taken lightly. I imagine that the backup plan would also have to deal with the Creator’s copyright design and would aim to save the serpent from death. I believe as soon as the Creator defeated the serpent’s plan, the serpent’s backup plan immediately bought him time to challenge the Creator’s timeless design by claiming that Adam and Eve will fail. I believe the Creator found the serpent’s challenge appealing, as it would be the only possible way to test his timeless design. That is my imagination, which may be true or close to it. What is true is that the serpent was not dead and was freely allowed to challenge Adam and Eve.
The face-off between the serpent and Adam and Eve was brilliantly planned. The serpent’s purpose was to defeat the Creator by defeating the Creator’s timeless design. If the Creator’s timeless design could be defeated then the Creator would be defeated. Therefore defeating the Creator’s timeless design would seem quite possible to the serpent.
Recall that the Creator’s timeless design was expressed by creating Adam and Eve. The Creator’s purpose was to father offspring who live with him and enjoy everything the creator enjoys. That plan is obvious logically because Adam and Eve were created to have sexual power and the ability to create offspring. The Creator’s plan is also exclaimed and taught by Adam when stated in Genesis 2: 23-24, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh …one flesh.” That is the Creator’s timeless design that the serpent is attempting to destroy; the serpent is attempting to defeat the Creator in hopes that the Creator might spare the serpent from final death.
Notice that the Creator, who is all knowing, certainly knows the location of the serpent, Adam and Eve at every moment, was not present at the confrontation between the serpent and Eve. That indicates that the Creator accepted the challenge of the serpent and did not interfere with the choices of Adam and Eve. This also implies that in our choices and responses, we have the freedom freely to choose to abide by the Creator’s timeless design.
The cunning serpent carefully planned. The serpent very brilliantly and purposely confronted only one of the spouses. Eve knows the Creator’s command; she unhesitatingly stated it clearly to the serpent as written in Genesis chapter 3 verse 2-3.
The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’”
Therefore, Eve told the serpent that God, who is the Creator and higher than you, commanded us not even to touch the tree or we shall die. A child would not even disobey the Creator after what Eve repeated; therefore, Eve should know much better not to disobey the Creator. I believe that the serpent isolated her from her husband and intimidated her to the degree that she feared death. However, even the serpent’s threat of death would not force her to eat, because she will receive death from the Creator anyway if she does. Therefore, it is clear that the serpent’s repeated use of the word “death” implied to her that he is going to destroy the Creator’s timeless design − to become one flesh with Adam and have offspring. The serpent answered Eve in Genesis 3: 4,
But the serpent said to the woman: You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.
The serpent’s mission was indirectly to win against the Creator by preventing the Creator from permanently destroying the serpent. Therefore, the serpent’s plan was so precise to accomplish its goal to the utmost perfection. It is obvious that the serpent’s goal was directed not against Adam and Eve, but against the Creator. Therefore, the only possible way the serpent can win against the Creator is by destroying the Creator’s timeless design.
Think about this for a moment. The Creator’s design is a masterpiece perfected and copyrighted timelessly. The mission of the serpent is to upset the plan of the permanent one flesh between the man and woman and consequently there will not be any offspring living with the Creator as He intended. Therefore, the serpent’s greatest success would be if Adam and Eve each made an opposite choice, thus destroying the Creator’s plan. This would be unprecedented; it implies a destruction of the Creator or that somehow the serpent may gain permanent freedom from the wrath of the Creator.
Another backup plan for the serpent is whether Adam and Eve earned the Creator’s promise for labor and death. That would be a partial win for the serpent, because it would allow him the opportunity constantly to deceive the weak offspring. I imagine that the Creator plans for Adam and Eve to have enough offspring to fill a certain quota that would be pleasing or satisfactory to the Creator. I imagine that if many people abide by the Creator’s design and are judged to win life with the Creator, that would shorten and speed up the end of labor and death on earth and the final judgment would begin. Therefore, I imagine that the serpent’s second plan would be to delude as many people as possible, who would delay the final judgment for as long as possible or even permanently (as the serpent would hope), thus guaranteeing his permanent continued existence. That is just my imagination.
The serpent may have an additional backup plan in case Adam and Eve make the right choice and the Creator promises their salvation. The serpent would still have another opportunity at tricking the Messiah. As we read the serpent offered Him permanent rule over all the offspring – that is what the serpent did to the Messiah and if the serpent succeeded it would earn him permanent existence on earth and permanent escape from final death.
My conclusion is that the serpent explained to Eve that if he is forced to kill her, then obviously the Creator’s timeless design would fail. She will not have the offspring she is carrying and Adam, her one flesh, already had the Spousal Genetic makeup for her alone and will not be able to have another wife. Thus, her choice to eat the fruit of knowledge indicates she has poor judgment.
However, the opposite may also be true. Disobeying the Creator’s command would give Adam a chance to make the correct choice also and both would live knowing which is the right choice and which is the bad choice. This time the “bad” choice of disobeying the Creator is actually the only good choice if Adam is committed to abide by the Creator’s timeless design. Therefore, my conclusion is that Adam ultimately made a good choice by choosing to disobey the Creator’s command and live in compliance with the Creator’s timeless design, in spite of the disobedience in that decision. Adam clearly chose labor and death, yet also chose to abide perfectly by the Creator’s timeless design.
It may be useful to re-read the discussion to understand the serpent’s powerful cunning to place Adam in such a position and Adam’s heroic choice to accept labor and death, and in doing so, give each one of us and all the offspring the opportunity to win life with the Creator and to enjoy all that he experienced by abiding with the Creator’s timeless design. The toughest choice our father Adam ever made is amazing and fascinating. Adam sacrificed to give each one of us the opportunity for the greatest gift any father could give to the children. Therefore, I believe that everyone should know the history of our ancestors, especially Adam, and learn the timeless lesson of the ultimate sacrifice − choosing what would be the best for the benefits of the offspring and sacrificing herself by choosing labor and death.
How much are you willing to sacrifice to abide by the Creator’s timeless design? Ask yourself whether you are doing all you can not to waste the opportunity that our ancestor Eve gave us – the opportunity to make choices and responses during life that turn Adam’s dream into reality and the opportunity for you to win life with the Creator after death?
Therefore, I find that the first part of the serpent’s test did not achieve what the serpent intended, because Eve was still alive and abided by the Creator’s timeless design. Notice that the serpent did not speak to Adam alone to intimidate him into making the choice; rather it was Eve who approached Adam. Genesis 3: 6 states, “The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.” I notice that Eve described the tree as food and did not single out the fruit, because the fruit actually represents disobedience against the Creator’s command. The tree on the other hand, represents what the Creator described as labor and death and Eve described labor and death with the words “food, desirable and wisdom.”
Eve handed Adam the fruit silently without saying anything and that indicates she is not trying to deceive Adam. I find Eve’s silence and holding the fruits of labor and death indicate that she was courageously representing the truth to Adam − that she chose labor and death. In fact, I find sureness in her silently holding the labor and death fruit to Adam, rather than encouraging Adam and declaring to Adam that she expects him to choose labor and death. She already knows his unquestionable love for the Creator’s timeless design even when his decision would mean instant labor and death. With rather hasty sureness, I find Adam took the fruits of labor and death and rapidly made the ultimate choice. Although everyone of his offspring inherits labor and death from the moment the offspring’s virgin Genetic flesh forms, they also instantly inherit the opportunity to win life with the Creator after living ceased. Genesis 3: 6 states, “…So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Notice that Eve explained to the serpent that God warned them not to come near the fruit or even touch it, yet now she holds it and offers it to Adam, her one flesh, who unhesitatingly and silently accepted the fruit of labor and death. That is the meaning of one flesh, bone and flesh, permanent Spousal Genetic makeup − choosing labor and death over committing fornication or adultery and therefore, abiding by the Creator’s timeless design.
Aren’t you and I glad that it was Adam who was our first father? Anyone who commits fornication or adultery would certainly never have sacrificed and chosen labor and death for their sexual partner, would they? The goal of the serpent is to make the man and woman each chooses differently; in doing so, the Creator’s timeless design would be defeated and the one flesh design would fail. Adam chose labor and death but only to uphold the Creator’s design. When the man and woman (the couple who had their first sexual relation together) preserve the one flesh and the spousal sexual flesh faithfully and permanently, they defeat the serpent’s plan and uphold the Creator’s timeless design; they happily and willingly sacrifice themselves for labor and death. However, on the other hand, anyone who engages in fornication or adultery and multiple marriages, whether intentionally or not, runs the risk of choosing opposite to what Adam and Eve chose and complying with what the serpent was hoping for them and any of their offspring to choose. I present this without excuses, rationalizations, favorite opinions or false compassion to honestly present the truth as it is. Those who repent and abide by the Creator’s timeless design honor the Creator and help defeat the serpent. The only judge of any person is the Creator and the He judges at the time, place and manner of his choosing.
fornication or adultery pits us against one another and offers a terrible teaching example to adults and offspring. We are not in competition against one another. We should reach out to our families, friends and neighbors to help them be faithful in their marriage and disavow fornication or adultery. Fornication or adultery is painful, resembles the worst attack and destruction against a copyright design of a brilliant software engineer for no logical, honorable or worthy gain, but rather for the sake of permanent destruction and death. You cannot be on the side of fornication or adultery, and fool yourself and others into thinking that you have a free ticket for the Creator’s timeless design. The two sides do not mix; they can only be falsely rationalized and fantasized to appear to blend. The Creator’s design and the serpent’s plan do not mix or blend just as fornication or adultery and life with the Creator after death do not mix or blend. As Christ described, just as the light and dark do not mix, so fornication or adultery and the Creator’s design for the one flesh do not mix.
We are privileged with the opportunity to live for a brief time and then we die. You can choose all the sexual partners you desire publicly or privately, legally or illegally, supported by documents or verbal consensual sexual relations; however, you will never deceive the serpent, nor the Creator, but only yourself.
By discussion in this book and my other writings, I do not intend to judge whose Soul is condemned to hell or who is saved, because that is solely in the hands of God. God alone can judge the heart at God's understanding; it is far beyond any human comprehension. Everyone should work daily and with vigilance on his/or her salvation. As Saint Paul said in 1 Corinthians:1:27, to run the race of life in fear to win that, “I myself should be disqualified.” What I am discussing is logic and Sacred Scripture that I find fit together to explain my understanding of God's design for us. However, I encourage everyone to consult with a valid authorized priest, which I believe to be in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, about their personal situation.