To: maryz; fortheDeclaration
God is talking to the serpent in these verses, and the serpent has offspring and the woman has offspring. Obviously they must be spiritual offspring as unless you ascribe to the serpent seed theology, Satan doesn't have physical children by a wife.
The offspring of the woman will crush the serpents head, the offspring of the serpent will bite (his)(the offspring of the woman) heel.
2,131 posted on
06/04/2008 3:08:36 PM PDT by
1000 silverlings
(Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
To: 1000 silverlings
God is talking to the serpent in these verses, and the serpent has offspring and the woman has offspring. Obviously they must be spiritual offspring as unless you ascribe to the serpent seed theology, Satan doesn't have physical children by a wife. The offspring of the woman will crush the serpents head, the offspring of the serpent will bite (his)(the offspring of the woman) heel. The seed that crushes the head of the serpent is Christ (Gal.3:16, Lk.1:35)
God put enmity between the seeds of each, but it is Satan being referred to as having His head crushed (Rev.12:9) by the Lord.
When we are born, we are all children of Satan (Eph.2:3) and must be born again to become children of God (Rom.5)
2,430 posted on
06/05/2008 3:21:31 AM PDT by
fortheDeclaration
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