Is Cane the Son of Adam?
No. Cain was not Adam’s son; Cain was “of that wicked one.” Abel—and, after Abel’s death, Seth—were Adam’s seed.
The Bible says, “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother” (1 John 3:12). That’s clear language about origin—“of that wicked one,” not “of Adam.” In Genesis 3:15 God puts enmity between the serpent’s seed and the woman’s Seed. If the serpent has a seed, it is a lineage. Genesis 5, when God records “the book of the generations of Adam,” never includes Cain. Instead it says, “Adam…begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth” (Genesis 5:3). Cain is absent from Adam’s line, but Seth is named as the one in Adam’s image. Eve confessed the fall as a moral deception: “The serpent beguiled me” (Genesis 3:13), and God tied the judgment directly to childbearing—“I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception” (Genesis 3:16). Then, right after the fall, the births appear (Genesis 4:1-2). Two seeds came forth: Cain, who manifests the serpent’s nature by murdering, and Abel, who manifests faith. Jesus spoke of a people whose father is the devil (John 8:44), showing a real lineage of wickedness that began in Eden.
Now notice the simple logic:
- If Cain were Adam’s son, Scripture would place him in Adam’s genealogy and say he was in Adam’s likeness. It does not. It assigns that testimony to Seth.
- The Holy Spirit says Cain was “of that wicked one,” marking a different fatherhood and nature.
- From the garden forward the Bible traces two lines: the serpent’s seed through Cain (violence, rebellion), and the woman’s Seed through Adam (Abel, then Seth), leading to Christ.
You see, two seeds were introduced at the fall. Cain did not come from Adam’s begetting; he came from the wrong union in Eden. Abel and, in his stead, Seth, were Adam’s children in Adam’s likeness.
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Oneness
62-0211 §59
And Satan's son, they didn't come the way he wanted it--he did. Anyway you want to say it, but it was Satan's son, 'cause that purity of Adam to God could not have brought that kind of a thing. Notice, then Satan's son, trying to make an atonement, come back with the same thing that most of the people say today, a bunch of apples and fruits of the land to offer for an atonement, an antidote. And what did righteous Abel do? He knowed that it wasn't no such a thing as eating apples. He was the blood of his mother and...
The Rapture
65-1204 §60
...oh, about the 5th chapter---you can also turn to Luke---and find out that Enoch was the seventh from Noah. Enoch... There catches the serpent's seed, for if Cain was Abel's son, then he was the eighth. You see? But nowhere in the Bible it said that Cain was Abel's son ... or, Cain was Adam's son, because that the Bible said he was of that evil one. And Adam wasn't the evil one. See? He was of the evil one.
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §153
...to monkeys and so forth, up to chimpanzee, then there's a loss. That was the serpent, not a snake. Every form is lost from him, because he was cursed. Now, God didn't curse Adam. He might have done the same thing, but He cursed the earth---thorns and thistles. He didn't curse Eve, but said Adam would be her ruler. From now on she ain't trying any preaching or anything; Adam is her ruler. "All the days of your life and in sorrow ... and you'll bring life into the earth." But He said, "I'll put enmity between your se...
Questions and Answers
62-0527 §29
Now, but ... see. God, when He passed the judgment upon Adam and Eve, she'd already done the sin before He could pass the judgment. And, listen, did you ever know that the first child was ever born in the world was "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies"? The very first one that was ever born was born that way. You say, "What about Adam and Eve?" They wasn't born. They were created, see. But the first child ever come was born in sin, so it has to be that line. "A man that's born of a woma...
But it wasn't so from the beginning
61-0411 §19
And how many knows that God is light? And when God became flesh and dwelt in the body that He created, which was his only begotten son... Adam was his son, a created son. But Jesus was his begotten son, and God was in Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself. We all believe that. Every Christian believes that, that God was in Christ, because He said, "It is not me that doeth the works. It's my Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." Jesus said in St. John 5:19, "I do nothing ... I see the Father doing it fi...