I'm curious, where does the line of reasoning go from Cane is the son of Satan? What's the payoff? What difference does it make?
Resting in Him,
Clete
To me it is about knowing God's word. It started 20 years ago when my son ask me about 'preterism'. I told him I had never heard of it but I would study. I instinctively knew that this would not be an easy task, so in prayer I told God that I wanted the truth and would accept what ever he showed me. The biggest jump in understanding the bible came within the year. Since then if there is something that isn't clear I ask God to explain it. This is the reasons all my answers are scripture.
So here we go. Anybody who doesn't believe there is a devil is not living in the real world.
Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
beguiled in Hebrew
na sha'
naw-shaw'
A primitive root; to lead astray, that is, (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce: - beguile, deceive, X greatly, X utterly.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
1. The serpent is the Devil and Satan.
2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2. Beguiled in Hebrew means seduced or deceived but probably both.
Joh 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
3. Jesus is not just putting words together, he means they do the deeds of the Devil.
Joh 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
4. They, those that did not believe on Him could not understand him.
Mat 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mat 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
5.Jesus calls them serpents and vipers and tells them that will bear the blame for all the righteous blood shed from the blood of righteous Abel.
We know Cain slew Abel so accordingly Cain would also be a devil. That was not because Adam was his father but because the Serpant, the Devil, was his father.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
6. God told Satan that he would put hatred between his seed (offspring) and her seed (offspring). The first hatred between the seed of the devil and the seed of Eve was when Cain slew Abel.
To me these things are important because God has added to my knowledge of him, no other reason other than to share it with you.
May the LORD bless us in our journey with Him.