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Romans 5:16
For on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression...

Romans 5:17
By the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one...

Romans 5:18
Through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men...

Romans 5:19
Through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners...

If you do not understand how this teaching of the apostle Paul completely refutes the serpent seed
doctrine, I encourage you to not hasten over these words. The serpent seed doctrine claims that Eve
had sexual intercourse with the serpent in the garden. This doctrine suggests that Adam had
intercourse with his wife soon after the serpent, when no more than a few days had passed. Both the
seed of the serpent and the seed of Adam bore fruit, producing Cain from the serpent and Abel from
Adam. If Cain indeed came from the serpent, and not from Adam, then Cain’s descendants were not
made sinners through the transgression of Adam, for they are not of Adam’s seed. Consequently, the
apostle Paul would be mistaken to declare that through one transgression and the one man’s
disobedience there resulted condemnation to all men.

One of the arguments put forth to support the serpent seed doctrine is that Genesis chapter 6 describes
fallen angels (bene ha elohim - sons of God), cohabiting with the daughters of men (Adam), and
giving birth to great men of renown.

Genesis 6:1-4
Now it came about, when men (ha adam) began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters
were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men (ha adam) were beautiful; and
they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose... The Nephilim (fallen ones) were on the earth
in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men (ha adam),
and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men (ha giborim) who were of old, men (iysh)
of renown.

The serpent seed argument suggests that since other fallen angels could procreate with women, that
Satan could certainly procreate with Eve. I certainly do not dispute that Satan could procreate with
a woman, but the Bible does not say that He did. It particularly does not say that he consorted with
Eve. Again, the argument for Satan and Eve cohabiting is made from silence. Because the Bible does
not specifically say that Satan cannot procreate with a woman, and because it does not say he did not
procreate with Eve, then those promoting this doctrine say that it must be allowed that it could have
happened. I disagree wholeheartedly. We cannot derive doctrines from the silence of the Bible. The
Bible contains no statement that the earth is not made of jelly beans, but this does not mean that we
must allow that it may be made of jelly beans. We could create doctrines from every vain, profane,
obscene, or ridiculous thing that entered our minds if we used the silence of the Bible to argue for
what may have occurred.