“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD” (Genesis 4: 1KJV). “For this is the message . . . that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one (Satan), and slew his brother (Abel)” (1 John 3: 11, 12 KJV).
Everyone has two fathers. Everyone has a biological father and a spiritual father.
Numerous times I’ve been told, and I quote, “Cain was born as a result of Eve having sex with Satan.” A pastor from a conservative Bible based church said this from the pulpit, and I also heard it from a member of a cult.
But from our text in Genesis 4: 1, we know for certain that Cain’s biological parents were Adam and Eve. From our other text in 1 John 3: 11, we know for certain that his spiritual father was Satan. We also know for certain that the Pharisees of Jesus’ day that had biological parents were also children of the Devil—“Ye are of your father the devil” (John 8: 44), and he is a murderer and a liar.
We’re identified with our biological parents through our DNA, through our physical appearance, through some other characteristics, and according to the Traducian Doctrine; a doctrine that teaches that both the body and the soul are propagated at the moment of conception; possibly our psyche as well. In other words, we will, if only in a small way, look and act like our biological parents. But no one is born a Christian just because they are born of Christian parents.
But we’re also either a child of God or a child of the Devil. Because of Adam’s fall we’re all born sinners and a child of the Devil. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are born-again or born from above and become a child of God (Gal. 3: 26). We didn’t get to choose our biological father, but we get to choose our spiritual father. We can, through faith in Christ, be translated out of the kingdom of darkness and out of the family of Satan into the kingdom of God and into His family (Col. 1: 12-14).
As we identify with our biological father, we also identify with our spiritual father. John said, “He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (Jesus Christ) is righteous. He that committeth (practices) sin is of the devil . . . In this the children of God are manifest (revealed), and the children of the devil” (1 John 3: 7-10).
It’s not that important who our biological father is, but it’s of the utmost importance who our spiritual father is for who He/he is determines our eternal destiny.
