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Elaine Pagels says "The serpent is Christ" from "The Testimony of Truth"
Rappleye explains that many artifacts containing winged serpentshttps://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1936&context=interpreter
have been found in Israel and notes that “visually, the winged serpents
depicted on artifacts from Israel and Judah are clearly inspired by
Egyptian iconography.”13 What is more, Rappleye suggests that the
seraphim may have been closely associated with biblical temple sym-
bolism in Israel
AI says:
The Christian Gnostic sect known asthe Ophites (from the Greek for "snake") revered the serpent in the Garden of Eden, viewing it as a divine messenger bringing forbidden knowledge, not evil; they saw Christ as a spiritual being revealing truths, opposing the lesser creator god (Demiurge), but the idea of Christ being the serpent isn't the core of their belief, but rather the serpent as an enlightened figure similar to Christ's role as revealer of gnosis
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