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Michael Pearl Teaches the Occult Serpent Seed
Doctrine in His Illustrated Bible
 Michael Pearl, who claims to hold to the King
James Bible as the word of God in English, incorporated Serpent Seed doctrine
in his Good and Evil illustrated bible by replacing the word, seed,
with "child."
According to the King James bible, God said to the
serpent:
"And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel." (Genesis 3:15)
According to Michael Pearl's Good and Evil
illustrated Bible, God said to the serpent:
"I will make your child
and the woman's child to be enemies. Your child
will bruise the heel of the woman's
child, but he will bruise your head." (Mr.
Pearl's revision of Genesis 3:15) emphasis added
Unlike the word, seed, the word "child" (when
used in the context of physical offspring) is limited to the progeny of human
beings:
CHILD, n.
1. A son or a
daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate
progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when
young. The term is applied to infants from their birth; but the time when
they cease ordinarily to be so called, is not defined by custom. In
strictness, a child is the shoot, issue or produce of the parents, and a
person of any age, in respect to the parents, is a child.
An infant.
(Webster's 1828 Unabridged Dictionary definition #1)
According to Michael Pearl's Good and Evil
illustrated bible, the serpent's child (human progeny) will bruise the
heel of the woman's child.
Yes, the bible uses the terms, "children of
God" and "children of the devil" in the context of spiritual children of
God or spiritual children of the devil. (1 Jn. 3:10) However,
the
context of Genesis 3:15 does not allow for the word, "child" in
relation to the serpent or even to the woman.
God did not say that Eve would
give birth to a child that would bruise the serpent's head.
(Remember, child means the immediate progeny of parents.) Rather, he said that her seed (descendent) "shall
bruise thy head."
God did not say that the serpent's child "shalt
bruise his heel." God said, "[thy seed] shalt
bruise his heel." Since a literal serpent
did not bruise the heel of the Lord Jesus Christ we know that God was referring
to the serpent's spiritual descendents -- wicked men motivated by Satan.
Not even the most loosely
translated modern versions
that I have consulted have modified this passage to the extent that God told the serpent his
child would
bruise the heel of the woman's child. Michael Pearl
is using his Comic Book Bible to falsely teach that the serpent (Satan) had a child!
Michael Pearl's decision to alter the
wording of Genesis
3:15 in order to send the message that the serpent would have a child should
give bible believers much reason for concern.
Notes:
image source: scanned portion of page 7 from
Michael Pearl's book, Good and Evil
Use of image conforms to the terms of the
Fair
Use Copyright Law.
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