One of the most popular doctrines in the world today is that certain races are literally descended from an unholy union between the Devil and Eve. I couldn’t count the number of times people have come up to me and, after only the briefest talk about religion, half-whispered to me conspiratorially that THEY believe that Eve and the Devil had um… an affair… and produced Cain, or something similar.Did this happen? MANY, MANY people believe this today. Why? Is it true? Does the Bible teach it? On what do they base this belief? On the Bible? And do they base it on the ENTIRE Bible, or only certain passages that support this belief?
There are many variations of this doctrine. Some say that the “Two seeds” of Genesis 3:15 refers to Adam’s children and Satan’s children by Eve. Others believe that Angels married women based on Genesis 6:2. Still others believe that Cain’s wife was a creation of the Devil, some sort of pre-Adamic half-woman. Read the rest of this entry »