By God's Command, All Living Things Reproduce Only "After Their Own Kind"
Eve and Satan could not procreate, nor could Eve and a serpent "possessed" by Satan, who is a spirit, and does not possess human semen.
Cain was the son of Adam.
No lesson is more manifest in nature than that all living things do as the Lord commanded in the Creation. They reproduce "after their own kind." (Genesis 2:12, 24.) They follow the pattern of their parentage. . . . A bird will not become an animal nor a fish. A mammal will not beget reptiles, nor "do men gather . . . figs of thistles" ( Matthew 7:16 ).
Genesis 1:24 "Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive"
1:25 " And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps on the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good
Genesis 7:13: "On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
14: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.…
[The third day of creation] is the day when the decree went forth that grass, herbs, and trees could each grow only from "its own seed," and that each could in turn bring forth only after its own "kind." And thus the bounds of the plant and vegetable kingdoms were set by the hands of those by whom each varied plant and tree was made.
[On the fifth day of creation] came fish and fowl and "every living creature" whose abode is "the waters." Their Creators placed them on the newly organized earth, and they were given the command: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sea; and let fowl multiply in the earth." This command—as with a similar decree given to man and applicable to all animal life—they could not then keep, but they soon would be able to do so. Appended to this command to multiply was the heaven-sent restriction that the creatures in the waters could only bring forth "after their kind," and that "every winged fowl" could only bring forth "after his kind." God made no provision for evolvement or change from one species to another.
[On the sixth day of creation] the great Creators "made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth upon the earth after his kind." And the same procreative restrictions applied to them that apply to all forms of life; they too are to reproduce only after their kind."
waltmoreno wrote:
Thanks for those posts eagleye13. I've paid attention to Arnold Murray's interpretations of the Bible since I first learned about him decades ago.
He was able to tell the biblical stories in such a way that made innate sense, and filled in other related passages in other books of the Bible.
For example, in Genesis, the forbidden fruit actually being Eve having sexual intercourse with Satan, resulting in Cain's birth makes more sense than them eating an apple. And it explains why Jesus could truthfully say about his accusers in John 8:44, that they were "of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
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