Bible passage: Genesis 3:1
"[1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

This is 69th Lecture on Genesis. 

In the lecture, I explained the first half of Genesis 3:1. I explained why God allowed the crafty serpent to stay in the Garden of Eden. The ground that God used to create the serpent contained an attribute which could change into either craftiness or into wisdom depending on whether it made contact with the darkness or the light. Since the Garden of Eden is surrounded by the light, the serpent behaved very wisely while staying in the Garden, and thus it was loved by Eve for long time. Meanwhile, Satan kept thinking of a plan to cause Adam to commit sin. 

Satan kept sending the signals of darkness into the Garden of Eden in the domain of light. But, it was dinosaurs that accepted it. Because of this, the dinosaurs rebelled against God, and Satan was able to gain a bit of confidence. During the dinosaur incident, the actual target was Adam. To tempt Adam and make him fall, Satan first approached the dinosaurs that were close to Adam and loved by Him. However, dinosaurs were not wise. They were very simple-minded, and they didn't know the front from the rear. 

They just kept on pushing until they got what they wanted. And so, as they were recklessly heading to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God punished them. After this incident, Satan began to look for a wise being. Satan set up a plan even more craftily to bring down Adam.

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