Ep 20 - Don't Play With the Snake

08/14/23 • 26 min

Why would Jesus call some of the most ardent God followers of his day snakes? Or say that they were children of their father--the devil? Was this something that only Jesus could see and say, or something that could only be said or applied in His day? If not, what might we be missing about how He saw the story, His role in it, and our place in it?

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The Willing Fool - Ep 20 - Don't Play With the Snake

Transcript

Welcome back to The Willing Fool. I'm your host and lead fool, Paul Tremble. And today we're going to continue the conversation from the last episode. We focused on this promise, this statement by God in the early chapters of Genesis, that there's going to be some sort of animosity, ongoing tension between the seed.
The offspring, the children of this snake and the seed, the offspring, the children of Eve, that would be standing in for humanity. So that's a fascinating idea. We're going to