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Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is eisegesis (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>Eisigisis is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>. | Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is eisegesis (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>Eisigisis is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>. | ||
===How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?=== | |||
If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did? It just doesn't make sense. | |||
:''Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not [n]eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”<ref>Genesis 2:15-16 (KJV)</ref> | |||
=Eve was an after-thought?= | =Eve was an after-thought?= | ||
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=Are you a woman who believes the Serpent' Seed doctrine?= | =Are you a woman who believes the Serpent' Seed doctrine?= | ||
If you are a woman who believes the serpent seed doctrine, there are a few extra statements by William Branham that should concern you. | If you are a woman who believes the serpent seed doctrine, there are a few extra statements by William Branham that should concern you. | ||
==Did Adam and Eve wear clothes before the fall?== | |||
First, William Branham taught that Eve had clothes in the Garden of Eden before the fall. | First, William Branham taught that Eve had clothes in the Garden of Eden before the fall. | ||
:''Now notice, it was Eve that led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes before her Adam took off his. See?'' <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref> | :''Now notice, it was Eve that led Adam to the wrong, and it was the woman that took off her clothes before her Adam took off his. See?'' <ref> William Branham, August 29, 1965, Satan’s Eden </ref> | ||
==Was Eve actually the tree and not Satan or the serpent?== | |||
Second, William Branham mentioned a number of times that Eve was the Tree of Death. This means that the serpent was simply the "can opener" that Satan used to loose his perverted creation, Eve the tree, on innocent Adam. | Second, William Branham mentioned a number of times that Eve was the Tree of Death. This means that the serpent was simply the "can opener" that Satan used to loose his perverted creation, Eve the tree, on innocent Adam. | ||