Hey, this is Tyler at Bible Project. I record and mix the podcast. We've been exploring a theme

called the Chaos Dragon. And because it's such a big theme, we've decided to do two separate

question and response episodes about it. We're currently taking questions for the first Q&R

and we'd love to hear from you. Just record your question by September 13th and send it into us

at infoatbibleproject.com. Let us know your name and where you're from and try to keep your question

to about 20 seconds. And please transcribe your question when you email it in. That's a huge help

to our team. We're so looking forward to hearing from you. Here's the episode.

We've been talking about the Nakhash. The serpent who in Genesis 3 shows up to deceive Adam and Eve

into their own destruction. Today we take a closer look at the snake's true interactions with the

humans. The snake just starts asking questions and weaving half-truths and quoting parts of what

God said to get the woman to take and eat from the tree that brings death. But she actually thinks

it will bring life. The snake gets her to embrace and choose her own path back into nothingness and

death. So rather than attacking the humans directly, the Nakhash just tries to get the humans to choose

their own destruction and it succeeds. Yet, after this, Yahweh proclaims that the seed of the serpent

that is some descendant of the serpent will become a rival to the seed of the woman. That is the

children of Adam and Eve. This is ominous. And as we turn the page, we might expect to read a story

about this rivalry. But instead, the next story is about two brothers. That is, two seeds of the

woman in a bitter deadly rivalry amongst themselves. And so where did the snake go? Humans can, by their

moral choices, become the seed of the snake. They can become agents of the snake and its desire to

reduce the goodness of God's world back into the nothingness from which it emerged. We all have a

choice. What type of seed will you be? You yourself can be the snake based on the voices that you

listen to. So this is why as you go on throughout the rest of the Torah, the prophets, the rest of the

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