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his belief. Murray says it was the Kenites that crucified Christ, and in one audiotape sermon titled
Demons he says of the Kenites, “Why do you think their own Talmud is the filthiest piece of literature
ever written? Because they're at home with it. They love it. It's their cup of tea. It's Satan's cup of
tea.” Such statements link the Jews with those he calls Kenites, the seed of Satan.

The Aryan Nations, and the Ku Klux Klan, both white supremacy groups, also hold to the serpent
seed doctrine. This by itself does not disprove the doctrine, but it should cause Christians to carefully
scrutinize what is being taught and why it holds an appeal to the soul of some men.

The claim that the Jews are the offspring of Satan cohabiting with Eve is usually based upon a
misapprehension of certain Scriptures where men of evil hearts and actions are accused of being sons
of Satan. Rather, than understanding the statements in the spiritual sense in which they were intended,
adherents of the serpent seed doctrine claim they are to be understood in the literal sense. They
neglect the passages where the matter is plainly explained.

John 8:37-44
“I know that you are Abraham's offspring; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place
in you. I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which
you heard from your father.” They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Yahshua said
to them, “If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham. But as it is, you are seeking to kill
Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. You are
doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one
Father, even God.” Yahshua said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I
proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent
Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are
of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie,
he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.”

Christ’s meaning is very well established from the context. He acknowledged that the Jews were the
natural offspring of Abraham, yet their actions were not those of Abraham, for he was a righteous
man of faith. Their actions were those of Satan. When Christ testified that the Jews’ were children
of the devil, He was speaking words that were spiritual.

The Jews often misconstrued Yahshua’s words in this way, for their hearts were darkened, and they
were spiritually dull of hearing. We can compare this passage to another one found in the Gospels
where the Jews were equally offended at Christ’s words, taking them in a literal sense when His
meaning was spiritual.

John 6:53-64
Yahshua therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of
Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My
blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the
living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because