of Adam and Eve. Next, in verses 6–7, we see them descend into the pit. The surprise in all of this is that the initiator of the dialogue is a talking snake. Now, we know that it is not a bad snake, because everything that God created was good. I have to say it: I don’t like snakes. Snakes as a species carry an almost entirely negative connotation. But at this point, before the fall, sin had made no entrance into the world. The snake itself eventually acts like a bad snake, but it is just a snake.