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Typo correction 'throught' -> 'through' (and linking sermons to The Free Word and Nathan's Software, PDF, MP3)
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||The failure of the Bible to refer to Adam 'knowing' his wife again before the birth of Abel meant that Cain and Abel were twins. This was made possible | ||The failure of the Bible to refer to Adam 'knowing' his wife again before the birth of Abel meant that Cain and Abel were twins. This was made possible through the process of [[heteropaternal superfecundation]] where the mother ovulates more than one egg and has more than one partner during her fertile period. One egg is fertilized with sperm from one partner, and the other egg from sperm of the second partner. Hence, Rev. Branham contended that Cain was the son (or seed) of the serpent and Abel was the son of Adam. | ||
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In Genesis 4:1, Eve says of Cain ''"I have gotten a man from the LORD."'' Rev. Branham was of the view that since all life comes from God, and that Eve's statement in itself does not discount the serpent seed doctrine. | In Genesis 4:1, Eve says of Cain ''"I have gotten a man from the LORD."'' Rev. Branham was of the view that since all life comes from God, and that Eve's statement in itself does not discount the serpent seed doctrine. | ||
:''You could take the orneriest woman in the town, the worst man; if they had a baby, it would have to come from the Lord, because God has laws set together. And these laws, like the sun to raise; you put a cocklebur in a good field, it'll grow. And it has to grow, because it's God's law. When seed is planted, it must grow. And nothing can grow life but God, because it operates under His laws. Therefore when the evil seed was planted in the womb of--of Eve, it had to bring forth, because it's God's law of production. And it could do nothing else but bring it, and it had to come from God.'' ( | :''You could take the orneriest woman in the town, the worst man; if they had a baby, it would have to come from the Lord, because God has laws set together. And these laws, like the sun to raise; you put a cocklebur in a good field, it'll grow. And it has to grow, because it's God's law. When seed is planted, it must grow. And nothing can grow life but God, because it operates under His laws. Therefore when the evil seed was planted in the womb of--of Eve, it had to bring forth, because it's God's law of production. And it could do nothing else but bring it, and it had to come from God.'' ([http://www.nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=1086 Marriage And Divorce, Sunday morning, February 21, 1965, Jeffersonville, Indiana, V-3 N-13] | [http://www.thefreeword.com/books/1365-L.pdf PDF] | [http://www.thefreeword.com/mp3/65-0221M.mp3 MP3]) | ||
Genesis 4:1 says that: ''"Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel."'' William Branham taught that there was one act of Adam, and two children, whereas when Seth was born, there was one act, and one child. Genesis 4:25 ''"And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth..."'' | Genesis 4:1 says that: ''"Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel."'' William Branham taught that there was one act of Adam, and two children, whereas when Seth was born, there was one act, and one child. Genesis 4:25 ''"And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth..."'' | ||
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William Branham was also well aware of the potential racist connections of the doctrine, but tried not to carry any of these racist interpretations into his teachings: | William Branham was also well aware of the potential racist connections of the doctrine, but tried not to carry any of these racist interpretations into his teachings: | ||
:"The colored race is off of the same tree that we're off of, and every human being: the same one." There's no difference. Exactly. We're just all... One may be yellow, and the other one brown, the other one black, and the other one white, and the other one pale, and the other one red, and just like that, but you're all from that same tree. That's just the physical part out here. That's right. You're human beings just the same, created here by God." ( | :"The colored race is off of the same tree that we're off of, and every human being: the same one." There's no difference. Exactly. We're just all... One may be yellow, and the other one brown, the other one black, and the other one white, and the other one pale, and the other one red, and just like that, but you're all from that same tree. That's just the physical part out here. That's right. You're human beings just the same, created here by God." ([http://www.nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=116 Questions And Answers On Genesis, Wednesday, July 29, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana, COD Book] | [http://www.thefreeword.com/mp3/53-0729.mp3 MP3]) | ||