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Why do Christians believe it was the Christ who spoke to Moses in the wilderness when Jesus told them it was the Serpent who spoke to Moses?
Jesus said,
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
John 3:14 (KJV)
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the woman said,
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what:
John 4:20-22 (KJV)
5 Answers
- james oLv 75 years ago
Sorry but there isn't any tradition that any serpent spoke to anybody in the Wilderness.
Your first quote is so out of context it's a waste of space. Also, Jesus says, correctly (if you bothered to read the text in the first place. You obviously didn't. Shame on you) that Moses lifted up a serpent. The serpent Moses lifted up was an idol. It was used to cure the people who had been bitten by snakes. The serpents never spoke; they bit people and caused a ruckus. Moses settled things down.
The texts you cited don't even APPEAR to mean what you seem to fantasize that they mean.
- 5 years ago
The serpent didn't speak to Moses. He was commanded by Jehovah God to make a replica of the snake as a reminder. Numbers 21:8,9. Jesus was only making a comparison or using it as an example.
John 3:13-15
(Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven+ but the one who descended from heaven,+ the Son of man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,+ so the Son of man must be lifted up,+ 15 so that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.+)
