Every book has pages that are held together at the spine.

And sometimes the publisher will tell you that this book has been Smith's own.

That refers to the way the pages are bound together by groups of pages being sewn together

so that the book will hold together perhaps even for centuries.

Not all used to be done by hand until sometime in the 1800s, a bright American by the name

of David McConnell Smith invented a machine that could do it.

And ever since then, people have spoken about books being Smith's own.

Actually if you have a high quality Bible, it may well be Smith's own.

This week on Things Unseen, I want to make a very simple point.

Although the Bible you use is physically Smith's own or not, it's theologically Smith's

own.

I mean, is pages on more accurately what's on those pages is all held together by very

strong threads.

And one of the strongest of these threads is found as you can probably guess in Genesis

3.15.

The first thing to say here is that the rest of the Bible makes clear that the serpent

is an instrument and representative of Satan.

Remember how the book of Revelation notes that the dragon who appears in the drama that

John witnesses is that ancient serpent, the devil.

After the serpent's deception of Eve and his luring of Adam into eating the fruit of

the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God pronounces these words of curse on the

serpent.

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