Sherry Shriner is a popularizer of various and sundry fringe issues including that which is of interest herein and that is the Serpent Seed of Satan theory.
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In view is Sherry Shriner article The Serpent Seedline: Edomite Jews and the Sons of Cain. I am going to focus on the specific attempts at elucidating the Serpent Seed of Satan theory. In short, her peripheral point is that “Edomite Jews are not real bloodline Jews.”
In the Cain, The Serpent’s Seed subsection, she notes:
In Genesis 3:15a He said, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.” Enmity means mutual hatred. He is saying there is mutual hatred between the seedline of Satan’s and the seedline of Eve’s. So there are two seedlines. The serpent seed started with Cain and Adam’s seed started with Seth.
A point that generally gets lost in discussions with Serpent Seedline of Satan theorists is that indeed, there are two seedlines. Yet, these are based on actions—sinful versus righteous, Satanic versus Godly—and not based on genetics. Thus, yes there is enmity/mutual hatred and yes the “serpent seed” started with Cain and Adam’s seed started with Seth due to actions and not genetics. For example, cutting to the chase and going to the point. 1 John 3:12 is very explicit in stating, “Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.” It even tells us why he did so, “And wherefore slew he him?” due to his Satanic genetics? No, rather, “Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” Cain is considered to be “of that wicked one…Because his own works were evil” works as in actions. Verse 8 had stated that “He that committeth sin” again, as in action and not genetics, “is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” destroy the works, as in actions, and not the genetics of the devil.
Verse 9 states, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin” as in actions, “for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” not born genetically but due to actions such as repentance and being born again.
She actually quoted 1 John 3:12 from The New Testament in Modern English, The Living Bible, The New English Bible, The New Century Bible, The New Jerusalem Bible and even via the commentaries of The Wycliffe Bible, Matthew Poole and Matthew Henry. Yet, she actually only quotes circa one third of it; perhaps because the rest of the verse would discredit her assertions. The commentaries merely affirm that which the verse states. The issue is that Shriner is manipulating the text by only partially quoting it and then partially quoting the commentaries to make it appear as if they are supporting her misinterpretation.
Sherry Shriner then makes a reference to “they” and I would imagine that “they” are the “Edomite Jews”:
No matter how they have tried to cover it up in the KJV, the Dead Sea Scrolls and even verses such as Gen. 3:15 make it clear that Satan had his own seedline and it started back with Eve.
So you see how this goes? The claim of two seedlines sounds biblical because it is but not in accordance to the Serpent Seedline of Satan theory and we will see why not.
Serpent Seed of Satan theorists represent a form of neo-Gnosticism who claim special revelation, such is the case with Sherry Shriner:
Many of you are hearing this for the first time. Because if you have sat in church programming all of your lives you haven’t heard the truth even though it is right there in the Bible. The apple was figurative for sexual relations masked with the terminology “Eve was beguiled by Satan” and until people accept it as the truth it is, they will stay blind to the real war going on today which is between the serpent seedline and the rest of the human race.
Many of you are hearing this for the first time because it was proposed, it was considered and it was found to be heretical. She refers to that which is right there in the Bible and yet, “The apple” is not: the issue was an unspecified “fruit” and not a specified “apple.”
In any regard, she asserts that the apple “was figurative for sexual relations” let us see how she seeks to back this claim:
Beguiled used in this text is the same as “seduced.” Furthermore, Scripture says Cain “was of that wicked one” he was a son of Satan’s through the seduction of Eve. The term “of” is the same that means offspring. Neither is Cain listed anywhere in the descendents of Adam which strongly indicates Cain was not his son. The official beginning of the wheat and the tares began with Eve. The wheat AND the tares.
She seems to miss the point that as with any word, term or phrase: “beguiled” and “seduced” are defined by the context. She is merely implying that “beguiled” and “seduced” have something to do with sex when there is no textual/contextual reason for concluding that this is the case. In fact, she attempt to prove is by the 1 John 3 text but as we have already seen above, this is simply invalid.
Genesis 5:4 notes that Adam “begat sons and daughters” plural and yet, they do not appear “anywhere in the descendents of Adam” with the exception of Abel and Seth. There are, at least, two reasons for this: 1) Cain absconded from Adam and Eve and thus, started his own family line and 2) the purpose of the genealogies is not just to list people or to list each and every person but in order to eventually draw a line from Adam and Eve to Jesus; Seth is in that line and the many other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve are not.
By wheat and tares Sherry Shriner is referring to Jesus parables about which you can read here:
Did Jesus teach the serpent seed of Satan theory in John 8?
Did Jesus teach the serpent seed of Satan theory in Matthew 23?
Did Jesus teach the serpent seed of Satan theory in the parable of the sower?
These are important to read since, for example, she asserts, “In John 8:44 Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees and proclaimed, ‘Ye are of your father the devil..’ The term ‘of’ meaning generation, offspring. They were of the physical seed of their father the devil.”
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