Naked Bible 211: Was Cain the Seed of the Serpent?

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In 1 John 3:11-12 the apostle warned believers, “For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother.” Does this passage mean that Cain was fathered by Satan? The idea is indeed found in some ancient Jewish texts. Is there any evidence for that in the Old Testament account of his birth? This episode of the podcast answers those questions.

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0:28.4	Episode 211 was Cain the seed of a serpent on the layman Trace Strickland and he's the
0:34.3	scholar Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:36.1	How you doing, sir?
0:37.1	Well, I would be doing better if I wouldn't have had to wade through all this crazy stuff
0:42.2	about Cain this week, but here we are.
0:45.0	Oh, yeah.
0:46.0	Did you actually learn anything new?
0:47.8	No, I didn't learn anything new.
0:49.7	I was just reminded that there's no sort of antidote to prevent people from believing
0:57.4	crazy things and making up stuff about scripture.
1:01.3	So you just have to more or less deal with it.
1:03.9	Yeah, this is one of them.
1:06.5	I'm ready for it if you are.
1:08.5	Yeah, you know, I get this question too often in email, which is why it went on my list
1:14.8	of topics, but here we are.
1:16.6	So yeah, Cain as the seed of the serpent or the seed of Satan.
1:22.2	And if you've never heard of this before, I apologize for putting it in your head, but
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