…Adam’s knowing Eve had nothing to do with the birth of Cain… In most cases, the logical conclusion that Cain was the son of Adam
would be a proper one, but not with this verse [Genesis 4:1]
…
—Willie Martin
Herein I consider Willie Martin’s The Two Seedlines (all emphasis in the following quotations are in the original). In this segment I will focus on his specific views about the Jews and race in general within his serpent seedline of Satan theory and his Christian Identity which identifies him as an anti-Semitic racist.
All emphasis in the following quotations are in the original. You can find my articles on Martin here.
Within a subsection titled “As The Serpent Beguiled Eve” Willie Martin writes:
The next passage we are going to consider is 2 Corinthians 11:2-3: “…for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Yahshua. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Yahshua.”
It would appear that before Eve was seduced by Satan, she was a “chaste virgin” according to this passage. Was Eve then a chaste virgin physically?, or a chaste virgin mentally? It should be obvious that Paul is telling the Corinthians that he desired their minds not to be violated as Eve was physically violated. Why even use the term “chaste virgin” if Eve was not violated physically? Notice that Paul tells these Corinthians he had espoused them to one husband. He is saying that he would rather not have them to become espoused to an additional husband as Eve was. In other words, “I have espoused you to one husband”…not as “Eve.” Paul was simply implying that Eve, after her encounter with Satan, was no longer a chaste virgin.
This is somewhat tricky and thus sneaky: it may “appear” that Eve was a chaste virgin and she was but not according to this passage. The passage has Paul referring to Jesus’ bride, his church as being presented as a chaste virgin, meaning loyal to God, but Martin is applying this to Eve. What the text is applying to Eve is that the church ought to be beguiled as she was. So, “Why even use the term ‘chaste virgin’ if Eve was not violated physically?” because that is not referring to Eve.
We could even say that “Paul was simply implying that Eve, after her encounter with Satan, was no longer a chaste virgin” as she adhered to Satan’s beguilement and took his word over God’s and it is this which the church ought not do likewise.
Within a subsection titled “The Greek Proves Eve Was Beguiled Mentally & Physically” Willie Martin claims that “The anti-Seedliners simply haven’t done their homework on the Greek in this passage”:
…the word #1818, exapatao, is used. W.E. Vine in his “An Expository Dictionary Of New Testament Word,” page 112, explains it like this: “Exapatao is a STRENGTHENED form of apatao…is rendered ‘beguile,’ 2 Corinthians 11:3; the more adequate rendering would be ‘as the serpent thoroughly beguiled Eve.’ So in 1 Timothy 2:14, in the best miss. [seems to mean “mss” as in manuscripts], this STRONGER form is used of Satan’s deception of Eve, literally thoroughly beguiled; the SIMPLER verb apatao, is used of Adam”…
W.E. Vine repeats his explanation of the use of the Greek words APATAO and EXAPATAO on pages 278 & 279 under the word “deceive”…“…of those who deceive ‘with empty words,’ belittling the true character of the sins mentioned, Ephesians 5:6…of the fact that Adam was ‘not beguiled,’ 1 Timothy 2:14, R.V. (Cp. What is said of Eve; se exapatao below…”
Then Vine continues: “EXAPATAO…INTENSIVE…signifies to BEGUILE THOROUGHLY, to DECEIVE WHOLLY…”
Okay then well indeed, “the serpent thoroughly beguiled Eve” and 1 Timothy 2:14 states, “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” In any case, there is nothing within the definitions of these terms to help Martin.
I have already been down this road with serpent seedline of Satan theorists and went into this particular issue in more detail, including elucidating this term’s New Testament usages, in Zen Garcia on symbolic Serpent Seed of Satan language in Genesis 3.
Willie Martin also refers to the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” and relies on the 70-200 AD Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs’ section Testament of Levi 5:26-30 in order to conclude that “YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH is the TREE OF LIFE.” This is even though as he, himself, tells us “the word for tree is #6086, meaning LITERALLY a firm wooden tree” which debunks his own claims.
So one tree is symbolic of Jesus, but actually tree is literal and yet, he then claims, “These two trees in Eden were not literal wooden trees, but walking, talking & breathing metaphorically idiomatic trees representing genetic people.”
There were various trees in the garden: tree of life, tree of the knowledge of good and evil and various others. Thus, according to Willie Martin these are Jesus, Satan and pre Adamic races. Of course, in keeping with his theory since eating from the forbidden tree actually means sex with Satan then partaking of the tree of life and other trees meant that both Adam and Eve were allowed to have sex with Jesus and the pre Adamic races.
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