Serpent Seed Doctrine Refuted
In this post I am going to deal with a heresy known as Serpent Seed.
If your not aware of this teaching, it is the claim that in Garden Eve and Satan had sex with one another to produce Cain or as is sometimes called the Kenites. This ideology is taught by such people as Arnold Murray, Christian Identity, KKK, Neo Nazis and other Racial group. But what does scripture have to say concerning this teaching? let’s examine.
One of the first passages appealed to is Genesis 3:15
[[Genesis 3:15]]
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Here are a few things to note in this text is that it is a Messianic Prophecy concerning the Messiah and we can deduce it from the following:
1. A seed will rise up from the women who will do battle with the seed of the Serpent.
2. Satan will bruise the heel of the seed of the women, but the seed of the women will crush the head of the Serpent.
Now let’s apply this to the New Testament to get the context of this prophecy.
1. We know Know Christ was tempted by Satan according to the scriptures Matthew 4:1–11, Luke 4:1–13
2. Christ overcame Satan by breaking his power through the atonement of the cross and his Resurrection. John 12:31,16:11, 1st John 3:8.
So we see in our first passage the seed here is clearly symbolic of a Spiritual War that is going to take place between Messiah and Satan in which the Messiah will break the power of Satan and destroy his kingdom.
Let’s now turn to John 8:44 which is another common passage those who teach serpent seed appeal in order to claim this has to do with race.
[[John 8:44]]
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. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
A few things to note here:
1. Jesus is addressing the religious leaders known as the Pharisees as we see from verses 3.
2. Jesus just a few verses before is addressing the claim that the Pharisee’s are the seed of Abraham and rebukes them by stating a true Son of Abraham would believe the Promise just as Abraham did see verses 37–58.
3.Paul even backs this up in Galatians 3:16, 27–29.
Therefore when we look at the broader context of scripture we see that seed of the Serpent and Women is Satan and Christ, or to put it in more simpler terms the Sons of Righteousness and the Sons of Darkness. Those under Christ and those enslaved to the Devil.
Finally here are a few problems if Serpent seed is true.
1. If this doctrine is true and Eve had relations with the Serpent does this mean Adam did as well? after all scripture says Adam was in the Garden when it occurred Genesis 3:6–7. If that is the case Adam engaged in Bestiality which is absurd.
2. We know Eve did not have sex with the Serpent because in the next chapter Genesis 4:1 Adam and Eve come together to produce Cain it clearly say’s so in the text because the Hebrew word to know is a Jewish/Hebrew idiom meaning to have intimate relations.
So in conclusion we can see the concept of Serpent Seed is not only Racist it is down right blasphemy and heretical it takes the beauty of the prophecies of the Messiah and twist them literally and perverts them. Those who teach such doctrines should be exposed, marked and avoided.
[[Romans 16:17]]
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”
[[2nd Peter 2:1]]
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
[[1st Corinthians 11:19]]
“For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”