Why do they love to hate the Jews?

There are some people who simply dislike Jews, due to the Jews’ insistence on being different. But I’d suggest that their argument is really with the God of Israel, who had commanded that very difference and distinctiveness for this nation at Mt. Sinai. There are people who hate the Jews for theological reasons based on replacement theology. But there is no hatred that is as venomous and dangerous as the one that is based on racial bigotry and has, as its root cause, a distortion of the Bible called the “Two Seed” theory.

The “Two Seed” theory is the view that the Serpent (in Genesis) did not tempt Eve with a fruit, but rather that the serpent seduced her, had intercourse with her and fathered her firstborn son, Cain.

One of the verses used as a proof text is the one that has Eve saying “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (interpreted to mean the Serpent) at the birth of Cain (Genesis 4:1). An obvious contradiction is the fact that just before this, it says, “… and Adam knew Eve” (in the biblical sense, i.e., they had intercourse). So, the Two Seed theorists propose that Cain and Abel were twins. They say that Eve did indeed have relations with Adam, but that she had just a bit earlier been impregnated with Cain by the Serpent. And, yes, it is genetically possible that fraternal twins can have different fathers.

But the rationale gets onto even thinner ice. You see, even if this were true, all of Cain’s evil seed (i.e., his descendants) would have been wiped out during the flood. Ah … not so, say the Two Seed theorists! Because they further claim that Ham’s sin against his father Noah was to “uncover the nakedness of his father” (Gen 9:22). This has been interpreted to mean that Ham had sexual relations with Noah’s wife Na’amah, whom they further claim was descended from the Serpent seed line. This Na’amah is found mentioned only in Genesis 4:22 as the sister of Tubalcain. But Noah’s marriage to this Na’amah is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

The theory says further that the child of this union was Canaan, and God’s curse on him had more to do with Canaan being the product of an adulterous relationship, as well as being a descendant of the evil “Serpent seed” line through his mother, who had survived the flood.

All of Canaan’s descendants then, literally and biologically the descendants of the Serpent, are the children of the Devil in this doctrine. Due to the intermarriage of Canaan with Ham’s other descendants, all of the people from Africa are considered to be children of the Devil and, therefore, they have no souls (i.e., they’re considered to be half human and half demonic).

This doctrine is not as innocuous as it might seem. Horrible things have been perpetrated against blacks and Jews due to this kind of thinking – like the outrageous torture-murder of a black man in Jasper, Texas, who was dragged to his death behind a truck by people who are alleged to subscribe to this theory. Many of the KKK over the years have accepted this doctrine and have taught contempt for blacks and Jews because of it.

This doctrine has also been used to promote a form of racial anti-Semitism. Since Judah is said to have married a Canaanite woman (Genesis 38:2), all of the descendants of the tribe of Judah (what some believe to be the Jews of today) are thought to be the literal descendants of the Serpent as well. The “Christian Identity” movement (of so-called Christians) makes much of this intermarriage between Judah and the Canaanite woman.

This movement teaches that Jesus (who is not of the tribe of Judah since His father is God) is speaking about the Serpent seed when he says that the Last Days would be like the days of Noah (i.e., abounding in wickedness from the descendants of the Serpent seed). A particular focus is on the “enmity” of the Two Seed lines (Genesis 3:15) in claiming that the sons of the Serpent-seed race (i.e., the Jews and blacks) have declared war on the white race (i.e., the sons of the woman). Also quoted (out of context) are verses in the Book of Revelation, which mention something called the “Synagogue of Satan.”

Now, I firmly believe people have a right to various “interpretations” of the Bible. But these kinds of gross perversions of the texts are used as a justification for injustice and violence against innocent people (blacks and Jews). The Serpent Seed theory has been brought into the Arab (and Muslim) world, and it’s a part of the root cause for their hatred of the Jewish people, and for the Muslim desire to destroy (demonic) Israel from within their midst. This hatred (and the incitement to murder on which it is based) is part of what must change for peace in the Middle East to become a reality instead of a mere political slogan.