The Devil's Nature
A snake is made in the image of the devil, similarly to how humans are made in the image of God. This is not to say that any particular snake is the devil, similarly to how not any particular person is God. Just that man is the physical form of God's image on earth. The snake is the image of the devil in a physical form on the planet. The devil is defined by pride, perhaps the most cardinal of sins. In his beauty, iniquity was found in him. As he thought to himself he would ascend to God's throne. Consiquently, a third of the angels were deceived in Lucifer's rebellion, in the quest to overthrow God. However God is omniscient, the devil is not. He betrayed allegiance to God, and fell. The story of the woman's whose son was being attempted to be eaten by the dragon in revelation, is symbolism to God coming in the flesh as Jesus Christ and the crucifixion culminating in the resurrection. The devil since doomed could not conceive a holy God could be both just...