These are excerpts taken from wiki
en.wikipedia.org... regarding the Serpent Seed Doctrine.
A website lost to me now featured St Thomas Acquinas as a proponent of this doctrine. His argument was that God repaid blood for blood and Eve's
punishment meant she must have spilled blood, (as in her virginity) and not just eaten a piece of fruit (to the devil who appeared to her as a snake
-reptile -lizard) or the punishment would not have been so severe.
Another interesting point I think is that God cursed the reptilian ever after to crawl on his belly indicating he did not up to this point crawl on
his belly.
If this is a fable to prove a point rather than a story to be taken literally, it is a creation tale that clearly references two distinct lines or
types of people.
Along with lovers and warm and fuzzy mammalian family types (describing inner nature) I see other people with such a cold hard unforgiving countenance
-they resemble reptiles.
And I encounter both types evidenced across all races.
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[" Another key difference is in the descendants of Cain. Some believe that the two lines remained separate and that eventually Cain's descendants
were all destroyed, others believe that
Cain's descendants became completely mixed with the descendants of Adam (meaning that all humanity is
partially descended from Cain),[15] and still others believe that the two lines remain separate to this day.[16] "]
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I vehemently disavow Christian Identity Theology which ascribes an unfounded and racist interpretation to this doctrine. but the rest of the
interpretation makes a lot of sense.
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History
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The Serpent Seed idea appears in a 9th century book called Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer.[9] Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, in his book Cain: Son of the
Serpent, traces the idea back through early Jewish Midrashic texts and identifies many rabbis who taught that Cain was the son of the union between
the serpent and Eve.[9] Some Kabbalist rabbis also believe that Cain and Abel were of a different genetic background than Seth. This is known among
Kabbalists as "The Theory of Origins".[10] The theory teaches that God created two "Adams"(Adam means MAN in Hebrew). To one he gave a soul and to
the other he did not give a soul. The one without a soul is the creature known in Christianity as the serpent. The Kabbalists call the serpent Nahash
(nahash means serpent in Hebrew). This is recorded in the Zohar:
"Two beings [Adam and Nachash] had intercourse with Eve, and she conceived from both and bore two children. Each followed one of the male
parents, and their spirits parted, one to this side and one to the other, and similarly their characters. On the side of Cain are all the haunts of
the evil species; from the side of Abel comes a more merciful class, yet not wholly beneficial -- good wine mixed with bad."(Zohar 136)
In The Scofield Study Bible Scofield says, "The serpent, in his Edenic form, is not to be thought of as a writhing reptile. That is the effect of the
curse (Gen. 3:14). The creature which lent itself to Satan may well have been the most beautiful as it was the most "subtle" of creatures less than
man".[11] Scofield's notes are silent as to the idea of Cain being the serpent's seed, however in Genesis 6:2 his notes claimed that while it was
an "error" to believe that the offspring mentioned were the product of supernatural unions, it was instead the intermarriage of the "godly line of
Seth" with the "godless line of Cain" being referred to.[12] Advocates suggest that modern Christian translations of the Old Testament reduce
emphasis on this concept, which they believe indicated the serpent had been an upright, human-like creature.
The foundational scripture for the serpent's seed doctrine appears in Genesis 3:15, which in the King James Version states "And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Advocates interpret this
literally to mean that an offspring of the Serpent via Eve would eventually lose in a mortal conflict with one of "her seed". Eve's son by Adam
would have presumably been called "Adam's seed" so it has been suggested, since a woman does not naturally produce seed, that "her seed" is the
first prophesy of an eventual human messiah produced by means of a virgin birth. Adherents believe this sets up the serpent's seed as a antitype to
Jesus Christ.
Advocates also point out that in Genesis 4:1-2 it is mentioned only once that Adam "knew" his wife, yet twice it is mentioned that she "bare" sons
(see, hetero paternal super fecundation).
Advocates also believe an unmentioned act of infidelity is implied by reproductive and marital curses
placed on Eve in Genesis 3:16, that otherwise seem inappropriate to merely eating a forbidden fruit. St. Paul seems to suggest as much in 2
Corinthians 11:2-3, where he may have implied that Eve was not a chaste virgin at the time Adam first had relations with her: "For I am jealous over
you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted..."
In the New Testament epistle of 1 John, ch. 3 v. xii it also states,
"Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother." John
also recorded in his gospel (8:44) that Christ said,
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him."
These passages, if taken literally as they are by advocates, seem to suggest that the New Testament writers believed that Cain, the first
murderer, was indeed the serpent's seed."]
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On the flipside...here is the whole argument against
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[Most Christians and Jews do not believe the serpent seed doctrine based on Genesis 4:1 which states "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man child from the LORD,"]
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However:
1) She could have known them both.
2) I find it more curious that Eve feels the need
to tell her husband where this child came from, since they were supposedly alone. "I have
gotten a man child from the Lord"
Now, where else would you have gotten this child from Eve?
And she makes no such acclamation at the birth of Abel or Seth.
[edit on 8-3-2010 by rusethorcain]