Serpent seed Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Doctrine== Various nuanced forms of the serpent seed doctrine have been developed over the centuries. In its most prominent modern form, it explains the [[Bible|biblical]] account of the [[fall of man]] by stating that the [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|serpent]] mated with [[Eve]] in the [[Garden of Eden]], and the offspring of their union was [[Cain and Abel|Cain]]. It claims that Eve had relations with Adam a second time, and Abel and his younger brother Seth were the two offspring who were produced by that union. Both of these events resulted in the creation of two races of people, the first event produced the wicked descendants of the Serpent who were destined for damnation, and the second event produced the righteous descendants of Adam who were destined to have eternal life. The doctrine frames human history as a conflict between these two races in which the descendants of Adam will eventually triumph over the descendants of Cain and the Serpent.<ref name="redeemer">{{cite web|url=http://redeemerbible.org/insights/2020/2/18/seed-of-the-serpent-and-the-seed-of-the-woman|title=SEED OF THE SERPENT AND THE SEED OF THE WOMAN|publisher=Redeemer Bible Church|date=10 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="compel">{{cite web|url=https://www.compellingtruth.org/serpent-seed.html|title=Serpent Seed doctrine β What is it?|publisher=Got Questions Ministries}}</ref><ref name = "adl"/> Genesis 3:14-15<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|3:14-15}}</ref> is a foundational verse for the doctrine.<ref name="equip">{{cite web|url=https://www.equip.org/article/eve-sex-satan-serpent-seed-view-genesis-315/|title=Did Eve Have Sex with Satan? The Serpent Seed View of Genesis 3:15|date=4 August 2017 |publisher=[[Christian Research Institute]]}}</ref> {{Blockquote |text=So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.| |source=''The Bible'' Genesis 3:14-15 }} The doctrine is frequently used to [[Demonization|demonize]] [[Jews]] and people who are members of [[Person of color|non-white]] [[Race (human categorization)|races]] and justify their mistreatment, abuse, [[Slavery|enslavement]] or [[Genocide|elimination]] by labeling them Satanic and sub-human. Variations of the doctrine claim that the Serpent's descendants have no souls because they are partially descended from animals and are therefore [[Predestination|predestined]] for [[damnation]]. Some groups are markedly militant on the subject because of their [[Millennium|millennial]] teachings, and as a result, they believe that at the [[Eschatology|end of days]], a final battle will be fought in which the pure race will triumph over the impure race.<ref name="equip"/><ref name="redeemer"/><ref name="compel"/> The identity of the serpent varies between groups. Some groups claim that the serpent is Satan himself, while other groups claim that the serpent is an animal which is either apelike or human-like. Some groups incorporate [[pre-Adamite]] views which state that the serpent was a non-human creature whose creation predated the creation of Adam. The identity of the serpent's seed also varies between groups. [[Aryan Nations]], an American anti-semitic, neo-Nazi and white supremacist group, claims that the descendants of the serpent are all people who are not of northern European descent. Other [[Christian Identity]] groups claim that the descendants of the serpent are either Jews or [[List of ethnic groups of Africa|Africans]]. William Branham connected the serpent's descendants with [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]] (the biblical progenitor of the African peoples), several Jewish figures, the highly educated, and society's criminals. Arnold Murray connected the descendants of the Serpent with the "[[Kenites]]", a group of people which he believed had infiltrated some part of Jewish society.<ref>Schamber, pp. 6-11</ref> In the [[Unification Church]], the bloodline of all humanity is believed to be contaminated as a result of Eve's relations with the serpent. However, married couples can change their heritages by performing the [[Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church|Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony]] which enables them to become the adopted children of their new Adam: [[Sun Myung Moon]].<ref name="Unification Church">Yamamoto, J. ISamu (2016). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DEiyDAAAQBAJ&q=%22all%20descendants%20of%20eve%20are%20said%22 Unification Church]''. Zondervan.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page