[bbyrd009]

Ah--well, I treat it like "Big Bang," more or less; a perspective that addresses facts, or in this case the spirit of other Scripture, provides a good working model, and as long as it is not distorted, amounts to the same thing whether it is a literal, or more spiritual interpretation that is applied. I'm fully prepared to abandon it the moment it becomes a vehicle for some agenda.

But like the Bang, and evolution, and a lot of other things that many Christians feel threatened by, I tend to see God in. I also see a connection to ignoring facts staring one in the face for the sake of ones religion and the position the Catholic church has repeatedly found itself in over the years in similar fashion.

If serpent seed is a division of humans for some selectivist agenda, then I am not interested, and my interpretation of serpent seed only extends to a more literal interpretation of what most Christians would surely admit happened spiritually anyway, ostensibly for the purpose of having a higher understanding of what really occurred v earth ages, etc.

However, I'm finding it more a point of contention that a literal interpretation of has not really expanded the spiritual interpretation of any, at least not yet. Cain sprang from satan somehow, in the only way that matters, spiritually, satan being a spirit, and Cain is satan's spiritual seed. Cain also had descendants, Kenites, who as far as I know may also accept salvation, but would you want one babysitting your kids?

Well, but how do you know if someone is a Kenite? The Bible has always made this a spiritual distinction, as far as I can see. A Kenite is portrayed less as the literal offspring of Cain than as spiritually following Cain, imo.