Where in the bible is the serpent that deceived Eve identified as Satan?
The serpent is not identified as Satan ever. Nor was it ever intended to be Satan. The serpent was purely and simply a serpent. Satan was Satan. Later Christian cosmologists created the conflation that enjoys popular “support” these days. The passage in Revelation that many point to as confirming that the two are the same is questionable as to whether John meant to identify the two. But even if he had, so what? It would still point to this being a later, Christian conflation. Both the serpent of Eden and Satan are products of Jewish cosmology. And the Jews never conflated the two or identified one with the other. Just because a late, Christian writer came along and said they were the same doesn’t change a thing, except in the minds of Christians who want to believe it. And on that note, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If one is willing to accept that John knew more about the matter than its originators, then one cannot squawk legitimately about some of the latter-day
+3 It isn’t in the Bible and the serpent isn’t Satan. . The serpent is described as the subtlist/craftiest of beasts which establishes its character without any need for input from Satan(which begs the questions 1. why would God make such a creature and 2. why would he put it in the Garden of Eden) . The serpent is punished for his actions by being condemned to crawl along the ground and eat dirt/dust etc. Obviously Satan doesn’t do that so it can’t be him. . The mixing together of the two entities is just another piece of church dogma, one of many in fact, that isn’t supported by the Bible but that Christians often seem to take as fact because somebody told them that it was.
