Given that GOD never mentioned creating a group of beings called 'angels' or any other name in HIS ACCOUNT of Creation, which is GENESIS 1 &2, and, given that Adam was the only person to whom the LORD GOD spoke the Commandment, and, given that Eve spoke the first untruth when she said GOD had forbiddened them from touching the Forbiddened Fruit, then, since Eve was deceived by the serpent and therefore cannot be the serpent, and the devil told the first lie, isn't it both logical and scriptural that Adam is the serpent, and the reason Mary had to be a virgin?
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Nope.
The serpent is Satan.
Rev. 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The "old serpent" in the garden was none other than Satan himself—not disguised as a snake, but the creep
is a "snake" in the
figurative sense.
Revelation 20 tells us who that serpent was.
Rev. 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
The apostle Paul also tells us:
2 Cor. 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
The Greek word for "serpent" is
ophis, which means "an artful, malicious person; (figuratively a snake).
Strong's Concordance
ophis: a snake
Original Word: ὄφις, εως, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: ophis
Phonetic Spelling: (of'-is)
Definition:
a snake
Usage: a serpent, snake; used of the devil or
Satan.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
a snake
NASB Translation
serpent (6), serpents (6), snake (2).
Satan was beautiful and charismatic and charming, truly a glorious "angel of light" (2 Cor. 11:14):
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.