The Snake in the Garden of Eden
What I find fascinating about this story is the way evangelical Christianity has stamped its own narrative on the text. And this is bizarre when we are studying creationism, because creationists use - or supposedly use - a literal reading of Genesis to support their nonsense claims. For example, Answer in Genesis: We focus on providing answers to questions about the Bible—particularly the book of Genesis—regarding key issues such as creation, evolution, science, and the age of the earth. So let us look at the "plain meaning of the text", and compare that to what evangelical Christianity tells us happened. "In the day" For once, the King James translates the verse faithfully: Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Here is a Hebrew Bible, translated to English, which again says on that day: But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you