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Who’s Calling? On the Spiritual Terror of the Almost-True

In the early 2000s, I was a Catholic student at Franciscan University of Steubenville, taking a Principles of Biblical Study class under Dr. Scott Hahn. At the end of the semester, we were given an assignment: explain why Adam, a man with an unfallen nature, chose to sin. I suppose we were meant to restate Hahn’s argument, where he proposed that the serpent in the garden was not a harmless snake, but something far more terrifying—more like a dragon. Hahn suggested that when t