Satan's Seed
The doctrine of Satan's Seed alleges that Cain was not the son of Adam, but rather the offspring ("seed") of a sexual encounter in the Garden of Eden between Eve and Satan the Devil. Satan was in the form of the being called a serpent in the Genesis story. (Thus the doctrine is sometimes referred to as "Serpent's Seed.") This theory further states that the descendents of Cain are, therefore, the descendents of the Devil himself, not just spiritually in terms of attitude, but literally in terms of their physical bodies. The aim of this doctrine is to account for certain races of people on Earth in our time-primarily those who are called, by most people, Jews. The proponents of the Satan's Seed theory allege that the modern Jews are imposters, not descended from Abraham, through his great grandson Judah, at all but rather from the genealogical line of Cain. Since the biblical account seems to indicate that all mankind today is descended from Noah, as only Noah's family survived the Flood, there is a need to account for how the Satanic line of Cain passed through the Flood. This is usually accomplished by postulating that the Flood did not actually cover the whole planet, but rather was localized in the Middle East. Thus descendants of Cain survived elsewhere. |
