This is an interesting play on the word "adder", but allow me to elaborate on this for a brief moment because this parallel is very significant. Remember that the serpent in the garden only changed one word to what God told Adam. God said "For in the day that ye eat of it ye shall surely die" The serpent added the word "not".
Test it. Read the account.
Watch carefully those who add "new laws" to the word of God.
They are very much like the snakes that live by the same name. The adder is generally not a very large snake, but it is usually small and insignificant looking. An adder could easily live inside your house for years, thriving on mice, insects, and vermin, and you would not even know it until it bit you. Fortunately the reptile does not thrive in cold climates. The poison of the adder is generally fatal and unless an anti-venomn is obtained quickly, the victim often dies.
When the spiritual adder "adds" to the word to make a "new law" that never came from God it can sit there in the New Age Law Book looking so harmless and inconspicous that anyone even noticing it on a superficial level might consider it "negligible", perhaps even a curiousity, and disregard the matter as of little significance... that is, unless one day they are constrained by circumstances to deal with the snake because it presented a problem.
When the spiritual adder adds to the scripture it has poisoned the living water with it's venom and that is why such adders must be dealt with to preserve the genuine purity, clarity, and integrity of the scripture. Adders are often well disguised. The adder places itself within the law without being easily noticed by means of a technique common among reptiles: It camoflauges itself with the surrounding environment to look as though it is part of that environment: the spiritual adder does this also. It often resorts to the use of biblical sounding terminology in order to justify it's presence in the eyes of those who behold it. The spiritual adder will often list a multitude of verses in the scripture that are sound and good but it will "slip in" just enough of it's venom to bring about the desired goal. Brothers (and sisters reading)... The desired goal of the adder is to corrupt the word of God and to bring us under the subjection of a lie. The serpent was not called "subtil" for nothing and True Worshippers know who the King of the adders is. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.
Thankyou Robert (and all participants) in this debate.
Blessings to you and to your houses in the name of the Only Wise God.
ONLY JESUS SAVES
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