Serpent seed

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The doctrine of the serpent seed, also known as the dual-seedline or two-seedline doctrine, is a controversial belief in some fringe Christian or other Abrahamic religious movements that interprets the biblical account of the fall of man as follows: the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain. Proponents of this doctrine believe this event resulted in the creation of two races of people: the wicked descendants of the Serpent, who were destined for damnation, and the righteous descendants of Adam, who were destined to have eternal life. The doctrine frames human history as a conflict between these two races in which the descendants of Adam will eventually triumph over the descendants of the Serpent. The idea that Eve mated with the Serpent was put forth by Valentinus (100–160) and was condemned as heresy by Irenaeus (c. 180) in Against Heresies. Other early versions of this idea appeared in medieval Jewish literature in Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer...

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