20 Facts About Serpent seed

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Doctrine of the serpent seed, known as the dual-seed or the two-seedline doctrine, is a controversial and fringe Christian religious belief which explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain.

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The Anti-Defamation League and various Christian apologetics organizations have denounced racist versions of the serpent seed teaching by claiming that they are incompatible with the teachings of traditional Christianity, and they have accused their promoters of exacerbating racial divisions by spreading hate.

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Variations of the doctrine claim that the Serpent seed's descendants have no souls because they are partially descended from animals and are therefore predestined for damnation.

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The serpent seed doctrine characterizes original sin as a feature of genetic inheritance rather than a spiritual condition.

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Later folk-version of the serpent seed doctrine was somewhat widespread in European Christianity during the Middle Ages and it ascribed the ancestry of legendary monsters such as Grendel to Cain.

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Serpent seed lectured on the subject in Boston from 1874 until his death in 1882.

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Serpent seed became the preeminent American promoter of British Israelism.

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Serpent seed published multiple books on the subject and influence many white Americans with his teachings.

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Serpent seed became the first preacher of British Israelism to offer a theory on the origin of the serpent's seedline.

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Serpent seed believed that Satan used the seduction of Eve to destroy God's pure race "at its fountainhead".

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Serpent seed believed that the serpent was the missing link between the chimpanzee and man, and he speculated that the serpent was possibly a human-like giant.

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Branham's teachings on serpent seed was particularly significant to the development of Identity's view of the Jews as the seed of the Devil through Cain.

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Branham's 1958 introduction of serpent seed teaching coincided with Wesley Swift's introduction of demonic origin of the Jews through the serpent the same year.

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Serpent seed first began to teach serpent seed in 1958 at the height of racial unrest in the United States.

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Branham's embrace of the serpent seed doctrine alienated most of the members of his Pentecostal audience.

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Serpent seed's followers continue to promote the doctrine and as a result, they have made international news for their racial views in connection to the teaching.

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Serpent seed accepted the belief that the Jews were descended from Adam through Seth, as the Bible describes.

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Serpent seed believed that they infiltrated the northern Kingdom of Israel.

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Serpent seed then tempted Adam to eat the fruit before the time was ripe, and they fell physically.

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Ideas which are similar to the serpent seed doctrine have been embraced by some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

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