The Seed of the Serpent and Adam's Genealogy vs Arnold Murray and the Shepherd's Chapel

Standard way of indicating descent. Now, Cain is not included in the Genealogy of Chapter 5 because Noah was not a descendant of Cain. Also it is not unusual in the bible for firstborn sons to be excluded from Genealogies because of some sin.

Jacob was chosen over Esau, Judah was chosen over Reuben. Reuben is not in Christ's Genealogy because Reuben is not the ancestor of Christ, Neither is Esau. It would be strange indeed if Cain was included in a genealogy that included Noah, because Noah did not descend from Cain.

But we do find Adam in Cain's genealogy. Cain is excluded from the line of Noah, and ultimately of Christ, as was Esau, and as was Reuben and many others. Being firstborn does not mean you are automatically in the line of inheritance.

The seed of the woman is one of those cover to cover parables in the bible, I talk about it extensively in my study on Revelation 12. Cain was also the seed of the woman. Eve was mother of all living. No one ever questions whether she was mother of Cain. So it is not her carnal seed that God has in mind when he says this to the serpent. Foremost in his mind is Christ. And people always make that connection. "It shall bruise thy head, but thou shalt bruise his (Christs) heel." We think of the seed of the woman as being Christ. So Satan's seed must be spiritual here and not carnal, because Cain was also of the woman's seed. If it was an issue of Cain being the literal son Satan then why was it not "I will put enmity between thee and THE MAN ADAM, His seed shall bruise they head, and thy seed shall bruise his heel." That is where they say the distinction lies. They say that Cain was not Adam's son, so it would be an enmity between Adam and the Serpent. Cain was of the woman, he was carnally the woman's seed, so I can't see how this could refer to Cain being Satan's carnal seed.

1 John3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Notice the mention of "his seed" there. Yep, "sperma" but we should not read our language back into greek, it means seed in the conventional sense as well as in the reproductive sense.

11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Notice, Cain's wickedness is explained by works. It does not say (as Pastor Murray suggests) that Cain was so evil because his dad was Satan. He was of the wicked one because of his works. His works were not a result of his being the son of Satan. That is about as unChristian an idea as I can come up with.

But We are the Children of God through Christ, the promised seed of the woman who redeemed us from the power of Satan, whose seed in us leads us to sin and unrighteousness. Satan's seed is not his ejaculate (pardon my graphic representation) this is the seed of the serpent: "Hath God said?" Satan sows spiritual seeds of doubt, fear, and desire in us in order to lead us to sin in order to destroy us. That is what he did from the beginning. Cain was satan's seed because he was a murderer, he was not a murderer because he was Satan's carnal descendant.