Is there any basis in Catholic theology or in the writings of major Catholic theologians for the belief that snakes used to have legs?
Upvote:1
No, there is no catholic teaching that serpents had legs.
As you say, NABRE assumes Genesis as allegorical, therefore I would take their description of the serpent as allegorical.
That is, allegorically "the serpent had legs" - as in, was in right standing with God (before Satan's fall). Then "lost the legs" / was punished meaning is no longer in the right standing with God.
More post
- 📝 Did Jesus have a physical body before his incarnation?
- 📝 What does Tertullian mean by the Son being a "portion of the Father's substance"?
- 📝 How did Luther view 'confessing intentional sins' to a priest for forgiveness?
- 📝 Can an Orthodox Christian of one diocese receive sacraments at a coterminous one, e.g. a Greek Orthodox at an OCA parish?
- 📝 When was the OT canon as used by Protestants finalized?
- 📝 Is God unknowable?
- 📝 According to Roman Catholic teaching, did Martin Luther's alterations to the order of the Mass invalidate his consecration of the elements?
- 📝 What does a "non-denominational" Protestant believe?
- 📝 In Catholicism, in case of emergency Is it valid to baptise a large assembly of people with a fire hose?
- 📝 What is the Word of Faith teaching on "little gods"
- 📝 Would Calvinists classify themselves as determinists?
- 📝 What extrabiblical sources support the existence of Jesus in history?
- 📝 Is numbers.10:7 a picture of how the church shall be spared from "sound of alarm" or great tribulation?
- 📝 Aquinas on polytheism
- 📝 How does the Church define reason?
- 📝 Has 'Affirmation 2010' been adopted, generally, by those called 'Reformed'?
- 📝 How widespread is the safe environment program in Catholic Catechetical programs?
- 📝 In the Lord's Vineyard what does the grafting teach (Jacob 5)?
- 📝 In Oriental Orthodox sacramental theology can a mixed marriage be valid?
- 📝 Without an annulment, a convert is confirmed and receives first communion
- 📝 How were the Vatican I and Vatican II councils related?
- 📝 How did the second Vatican council (aka Vatican II) address the concept of limbo?
- 📝 What is known (and/or alleged) about the moral character of the 12 disciples?
- 📝 Are those who have a history of eating disorders excused from obligatory Roman Catholic fasts?
- 📝 What did Christians write about Muhammad during his life?
- 📝 What is the difference between "person" and "substance"?
- 📝 Is there a denomination/sect of Christianity that believes that Jesus was the son of an angel?
- 📝 Looking for a Catholic Arabic bible
- 📝 What is the first recorded observation of Good Friday?
- 📝 Based on Luke 3:22 & 1:39-41, Genesis 1:2, the 'Holy Spirit' was already here, so who does John 16:7, 16:13-14, John 14:26 talk about?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Is there any basis in Catholic theology or in the writings of major Catholic theologians for the belief that snakes used to have legs?
- 📝 Are there any differences between Protestant and Catholic theology concerning the distinction between demonic possession from mental illness?
- 📝 Are there any writings from the church fathers teaching Original Sin before Augustine?
- 📝 Is there any evidence for the claim that the Catholic church suppressed translation of Scripture?
- 📝 Are there any Catholic sects which disagree with the sinlessness of Mary?
- 📝 Are there any major Protestant denominations that meet every day and are together all the time like the early church was?
- 📝 Were there any Roman Catholic Church martyrs in the 10–15th centuries?
- 📝 According to the morality of the Catholic Church are there any organs that are not permitted to be offered in organ transplants?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, is there any supernatural (non-physical, non-mathematical, non-scientific) part of a human being?
- 📝 Is there any biblical basis for the Church to depict Jesus as a European or some other ethnic race?
- 📝 In the Catholic Church, other than cardinals, are there any other prelates that may don red cassocks?
- 📝 Is there any theological basis for the eating of lamb at Easter?
- 📝 Are there Catholic Churches in any part of the world which have the Tabernacle fixed in the middle of the church?
- 📝 Is there any biblical basis to support a premillennialist view that animal sacrifices will be reinstated in Jerusalem during the millennial kingdom?
- 📝 Why were verses taken out of the Bible when it was being formed? Was there any major stuff taken out?
- 📝 Are there any Tridentine Rite Catholic communities that also use the Liturgical Calendar of 1970?
- 📝 Have there been any Christian writings on the genetics of Jesus?
- 📝 Are there any Catholic directives (rubrics) from the 17th to 19th century about what to do/pray/think during Eucharist Adoration?
- 📝 Are there any examples where the non-believers demanding a miracle for the proof of Catholic faith and a saint succeeding in performing it?
- 📝 Has there been any discussion in the Catholic Church about whether hand sanitizer profanes the Host?
- 📝 Are there any Catholic saints or notable theologians that have interpreted 666 in the manner as explained below?
- 📝 Are there any extra-biblical writings that document what the early Christians believed about the second coming of Christ?
- 📝 Are there any consolidated teachings from the side of Catholic Church on Guardian Angels?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for in the catholic theology of a priest being in "persona christi"?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, is there any indirect mention of purgatory in the Gospels?
- 📝 Are there any Early Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church or Catholic Saints who believed the world would possibly end by a comet hitting the earth?
- 📝 Are there any writings that support the belief that Judas might be in Heaven now?
- 📝 Is there any Biblical Basis for 400 years of silence between Old and New Testament?
- 📝 Are there any examples of sarcasm in the bible?
- 📝 Is there any account of a religious marriage ceremony in the scripture?