Cagle grams: Biological and spiritual fathers
James H. Cagle
Guest Columnist
"And Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bore 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—a biological father and a spiritual father.
I've been told numerous times, 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 parent