Is the curse the reason that snakes slither (Genesis 3:14)?
Every time we see a snake slithering, limbless, on the ground, we have a reminder of the Fall of man and the effects of sin. S. Michael Houdmann I looked up answersingenesis.com but found nothing definite: https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/garden-of-eden/did-the-serpent-originally-have-legs/
Genesis 3:1 - 24
ESV - 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.
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Tim Maas
In my opinion, the judgment on the serpent would have been analogous to the curse placed on Eve with respect to child-bearing. The process would have been the same, but the presence of sin made it painful to the woman. Similarly, the land became more difficult to cultivate, and plants produced thorns and thistles. With respect to the serpent, its method of locomotion might have remained the same, but unspecified difficulties or changes could have made it onerous or subjected the serpent to adverse consequences (expressed as the "enmity" placed between the woman's seed and the serpent's seed) in a way that had not been present previously.
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