Snake worship in Church?

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Yep, I noticed that myself. Like you, I didn’t say something when I read it.

I also noticed that the OP misrepresented Genesis 3. The serpent didn’t promise immortality; they already had it! It took a while, but they did die from eating the fruit: “Through one man death entered the world…” He promised her knowledge, kind of like what freemasons or satanists promise.

No, I’m not saying the OP is one of them, but based on his replies to the thread Mary Mediatrix of All Graces,
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The Bible states there is only one High Priest, Advocate, and Mediator. I don’t see there a reason to put anything in between us and Jesus. If there indeed exists such an office in heaven as Mediatrix it would need to have a scriptural basis to it.
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he really sounds like a lot of the anti Catholic evangelicals I have dealt with over the years. True his post was regarding Eastern Orthodoxy, but his indignant replies in this thread lend credence to that. Of course, I could be wrong, but I suspect flame trolling. I wonder if Matthew 13:25 applies to the practice.
 
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Thats quite an accusation. I am not anti anything. I am here to get answers from practicing Catholics and Orthodox people.
 
Okay so for that matter. I want to know what kind of Bishop would go around with a snake staff pretending they are Moses. I mean the Orthodox bishops and Eastern Catholic bishops look like they are kings not priests. My Eastern Catholic priest I met told me he stages his Liturgy as a kind of play and that the roles are there to reflect something maybe in heaven?
 
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snake worship;

not a catholic thing i’ve ever heard of

i like the gartner snakes in my garden that kill & eat crickets & beetles

not a huge fan of this guy
 
here’s one that lives where i live in NE USA

nasty little sons of guns

copperhead

worship?; I DON’T THINK SO
 
Serpent King

I abide in the between
I slither through the gaps unseen
Dividing then uniting
And drawing all to me
I lived through the Great Flood
Which washed across this land
Like a mighty vengeful hand
But could not wash away the blood
I am the Serpent King
Of which Psalmists sing
The charmer and the charmed
The harmer and the harmed
Both myth and truth interlaced
Whose garden was replaced
Through the falling of the first failings of the one
By temple steps rising to the sun
Where I was slain and then again raised up
Carefully lifted like a sacred cup
Slowly to be sacrificed, drained and supped
In the shadow of the falling sun
Whose shadow made me three in one
Accuser, Defender, Healer
Raised high upon a staff
To show myself at last
Sacred Serpent of death and rebirth,
With a magic tongue
Speaking words that make us one
Before my ancient eyes
Which witnessed man’s sad rise
And saw him lose his wisdom
In one instant
With insight from the eons
I wove the strands of many lands
Into a silken tapestry
I dance the mosaic floors of history
I fly above your monuments
Shimmering, streaming, shining
Glimmering, glistening, gliding
Pouring out my passion and power
Filling the earth with visions of me,
For I am
The Serpent King
 
Priests are in persona christi in the liturgy. Christ is priest, prophet, and king to us.
 
Are you even European? There is no such thing as a European look. Things vary a lot from country to country.
 
that is pretty darn good, colonel

i’ve been starting to notice some of the original poetry you’ve posted here
 
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Another beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

There are no poisonous snakes between the mountain ranges.

(There are bears and mountain lions, LOL, but no poisonous snakes.)
 
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There are no poisonous snakes between the mountain ranges.
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Wow.

There’s rattlesnake in my car as I type . . . of course, it’s attached to leather sole 🤣

hawk, who usually drives barefoot or in socks, and keeps boots and sandals in the car
 
I think that the snakes you see are in relation to the comparison that Jesus made with the image of the snake that Moses used to cure the Israelites and the salvation that comes to us from Jesus, Just as the snake had to be raised for the people of Israel to be healed so the Son of Man had to be raised on the Cross.
 
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Yes I’ve been to their service. I did not find any overt signs of snake worship. I did however briefly encounter one of their gold clad bishops with a huge snakes staff and I found it quite odd that i would find such a thing in the Church setting. Im not pretending that secretly all eastern catholic/orthodox bishops worship snakes but just friendly pointing out that it made me rethink some questions.
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Although belated, I don’t find it too odd given the reference to the snake in almost two different settings. The making of a bronze serpent was ordained in Numbers 21;9. In 2 Kings 18:4 destroyed it having noticed people misled. But Christ revisits the issue when stressing his mission John 3:14-15. The first image of Christ is in Numbers 21:9.
 
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