The Talking Snake, That Was Not. The Bible is known as a “heavenly condensation”. It is written in a way that the reader can relate, and it is written that it may be easy to remember. This was done intentionally, as early believers did not have hard drives. They were exclusively an oral culture. Moses uses the imagery of a snake as he exposits how Adam and Eve feel into a life of sin, terminated by death. If you are one to think that Eve was tempted by a real physical snake, then perhaps when you read Genesis 3:15 you will also think that Jesus Christ was to triumph over the powers of darkness by stepping on the head of a serpent, rather than by His passion on the cross, (Colossians 2:15). Satan came to Eve, just as He comes to us. Suggestion, and temptation. He preyed on her natural weaknesses, yet they were culpable for their own sin. Satan cannot read our minds, but he can plant mind-to-mind thoughts of communication if we allow him to. He has been around for a long, long time, and as such, he has had libraries of requisite knowledge at his disposal to use against us. It has been said that The Bible does not tell us what Satan “looks like”. Instead, the Bible tells us what Satan “is like”. In John’s Apocalypse, He is called a dragon. Other places call him “an angel of light, a roaring lion, and so on. None of these descriptions tells us what Satan actually looks like. They all tell us what Satan is like. He is cunning. His motive is lethal. He is deceitful. He is a liar, (John 8:44). Remember that Satan is an angel, therefore He has no physicality. He does have metaphysicality. Angels do not have flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). Spirits, angels, demons, cannot be seen, for they are not visible. God can cause an angel to temporarily take on physical form; He has done this many times throughout scripture. This however is not the norm. Angels do not look like anything, because they have no physical presence. However, they are certainly real creatures that God has created for His purposes.