Bible Questions and Answers

A visitor writes,

"Can you explained Genesis 3:1 if the serpent is good or bad because the word cunning or subtile? (with references and verses and concise explanation)"

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made… 
Using Strongs Concordance:
Cunning <06175> ערום ‘aruwm pass. part. of <06191>; adj;  
Translated in the KJV – ‘prudent’ 8 times, ‘crafty’ 2 times, subtil 1 time 
Meaning:
1) subtle, shrewd, crafty, sly, sensible 
1a) crafty 
1b) shrewd, sensible, prudent.
The serpent was created ‘very good’.
Genesis 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good…
Animals cannot be ‘good’ or ‘evil’ in a moral sense because they have no moral faculty.
The serpent’s ‘lie’ came as a result of its animal reasoning, not as an intentional lie.
I think we must conclude that the serpent didn’t understand that death would come as a judicial punishment but reasoned that the fruit was not poisonous (nothing in the Garden was) and therefore eating of it wouldn’t cause them to die. Further, as God (and the angels) had ‘the knowledge of good and evil’, eating of the fruit would make them ‘like God’ in this respect.
I hope this helps,
God bless.
Glenn