Aesop's Fables

[Recovering Saint]

Hugh, These are really Great! I remember these as a child and the Teacher saying now what is the Moral of the Story. And as for talking animals the Bible starts in Genesis with a talking snake and then we have a talking donkey in Numbers. Does anyone find it strange that Eve just talked to a snake and was'nt afraid, but when God calls for them they hide out of fear ? Do you think animals talked back then on a regular basis? Here are two instances before and after the fall. Do you believe this? Summer.

Summer

I don't know if they talked but obviously the snake could so why not. I think it would have been dull for Adam before Eve showed up to not be able to converse with the animals. Doctor Dolittle probably was inspired by Adam.

Hugh 

[vernecarty]

Summer---

I think, how Eve was tempted too(though she was tempted
in a different manner). But I think she "knew" when she was making the wrong decision, and that
was the origin of her sin.

--Joe

It may be a bit more complicated. Eve was deceived. This seems to Biblically imply a loss of distinguishing cognitive ability.
She actually believed the serpent...Adam, on the other hand...
Verne

[moonflower2]

That's a good point about Eve not being afraid of a
snake--although she was completely innocent at that point---babies aren't afraid of
snakes either, not knowing there is anything to fear about them. 
--Joe

I don't think that Eve had any reason to be afraid of a snake back then. Animals were not meat eaters until after the fall, just herbivores.

I get the impression that if Adam named the animals, he didn't do it from afar, but they came up to him. And if they were to be companions of a sort for him, then they must have been tame, in the same way that Isaiah describes animals in the millenium.

Moonflower