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In ''What Is the Message'', Brother Courchaine says: "We are led by one of two spirits. Outward man is self. That's Satan, the serpent seed." In ''Why Are People So Tossed About'', describing Cain: "he wasn't the bride. He was the son of Satan."

We completely debunk Branham's doctrine of [[The Serpent's Seed|The Serpent's Seed in our article on the subject (click here). The Old Testament treats Cain as anything other than fully human, fully a son of Adam, whose sin is explained in purely moral terms two verses later: "sin lieth at the door... unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him" (Genesis 4:7). That is a warning about choice, not a comment on bloodline. Cain's problem was not his ancestry. It was his heart, and God tells him so directly.

We completely debunk Branham's doctrine of [[The Serpent's Seed|The Serpent's Seed in our article on the subject (click here)]]. The Old Testament never treats Cain as anything other than fully human, fully a son of Adam, whose sin is explained in purely moral terms two verses later: "sin lieth at the door... unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him" (Genesis 4:7). That is a warning about choice, not a comment on bloodline. Cain's problem was not his ancestry. It was his heart, and God tells him so directly.

This matters beyond a single verse, because the doctrine threads through Courchaine's sermons. It divides humanity into two lineages before anyone has done anything, quietly reintroducing the very kind of unconditional, ancestry-based predestination the sermons spend so much time criticizing Calvinism for. You cannot fault Calvinism for making salvation about who God arbitrarily chose before you existed, and then teach that half of humanity is disqualified from ever being the bride based on which spiritual father conceived their ancestor. That is the same shape of problem wearing a different name.

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 In ''What Is the Message'', Brother Courchaine says: "We are led by one of two spirits. Outward man is self. That's Satan, the serpent seed." In ''Why Are People So Tossed About'', describing Cain: "he wasn't the bride. He was the son of Satan."
-We completely debunk Branham's doctrine of [[The Serpent's Seed|The Serpent's Seed in our article on the subject (click here). The Old Testament treats Cain as anything other than fully human, fully a son of Adam, whose sin is explained in purely moral terms two verses later: "sin lieth at the door... unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him" (Genesis 4:7). That is a warning about choice, not a comment on bloodline. Cain's problem was not his ancestry. It was his heart, and God tells him so directly.
+We completely debunk Branham's doctrine of [[The Serpent's Seed|The Serpent's Seed in our article on the subject (click here)]]. The Old Testament never treats Cain as anything other than fully human, fully a son of Adam, whose sin is explained in purely moral terms two verses later: "sin lieth at the door... unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him" (Genesis 4:7). That is a warning about choice, not a comment on bloodline. Cain's problem was not his ancestry. It was his heart, and God tells him so directly.
 This matters beyond a single verse, because the doctrine threads through Courchaine's sermons. It divides humanity into two lineages before anyone has done anything, quietly reintroducing the very kind of unconditional, ancestry-based predestination the sermons spend so much time criticizing Calvinism for. You cannot fault Calvinism for making salvation about who God arbitrarily chose before you existed, and then teach that half of humanity is disqualified from ever being the bride based on which spiritual father conceived their ancestor. That is the same shape of problem wearing a different name.