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Originally Posted by DRZ400
I had a Jehovahs Witness knock on my door once. I opened the door and his first line was enthusiastically 'Did you know the bible is 100% correct' ..... I'd just seen Religulous and remembered the line 'A talking snake, you're going to stand infront of me and hand on heart, tell me you believe in a talking snake'.
I've never seen anyone look so sheepish in my life, he looked at his shoes and said 'Yes', I wished him a good day and off he went.
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Steve here....Lucys better half.
I was trying to work out why the Jehovah's Witness would sheepishly look down at his shoes.
Yes he does believe in a talking snake.
That may sound amusing to you, but see it from his point of view, and indeed anyone that believes in the creation account.
What you have to understand is that refering to a talking snake out of context does sound unbelievable, (unless you are a Harry Potter fan) however taking the creation account as recorded in the Bible as true, which Jehovah's Witnesses do, then you believe that Adam and Eve were every day discovering new things.
Think of many of the things you find in nature, and imagine seeing them for the first time, without the benifit of TV or photograph's, so many of them would seem amazing.
So yes a talking snake would be suprising, but after what they would have been discovering every day, would not seem as ridiculous as it may today.