撒但为什么会在伊甸园,他是怎么进去的?



  • 《创世记》第3章从未提及撒旦。诱惑者是蛇,是“耶和华神所造的”受造物之一(《创世记》3:1),因此它不需要任何进入的方式。
  • 后来的圣经经文告诉我们是谁借着它说话:“那古蛇,名叫魔鬼,又叫撒旦”(《启示录》12:9)。
  • 奥古斯丁教导说,那位堕落的天使在伊甸园中“选择了蛇作为他的代言人”。
  • 在希腊语版的《亚当和夏娃的生平》中,魔鬼请求蛇做他的“容器”,而在《以利以谢拉比篇》中,萨麦尔骑在蛇身上。
  • 特土良和奥利金将《以西结书》28:13“你曾在伊甸,神的园中”解读为指魔鬼,按照这种解读,魔鬼从一开始就在那里。
  • 圣经没有说明神为何允许试探发生。天主教教理问答称,神允许邪恶存在是为了“引出某种更大的善”(412),而《威斯敏斯特信条》则称神允许罪恶存在是为了“将其导向他自己的荣耀”(6.1)。
  • 在记载堕落的同一章中,《创世记》3:15应许了蛇的失败。

Scripture never says how Satan got into the garden, or that anyone let him in. Genesis does not even use his name. The tempter is “the serpent”, one of the creatures “which the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1). Later Scripture tells us the devil stood behind that serpent to deceive, and old tradition adds that envy drove him. That small phrase, “which the LORD God had made”, is the key to the whole question. The serpent did not climb…

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