What being fits this description? Only angels are endowed with such characteristics. We may first doubt that angels can commit such sins, but on this assumption let us investigate more deeply. If in the Bible there is any indication that an angel tempted man to sin, then Satan must have been an angel. Then we read in II Peter 2:4, "God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom. . ." So we must conclude that the true identity of the serpent, which tempted man to fall, was an angel.