A Key Refutation to the Christian Identity Scam
John 8:44 Ye are 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.
The above verse, John 8:44 is often cited by adherents of Christian Identity as proof of their beliefs. The passage is bigly, actually.
For those who believe in Christian Identity, Cain was the child of the Serpent in the Garden. The actual Devil’s child. Cain and the Devil’s line made it through The Flood and again intermingled with a most important historical family, Isaac the father Jacob Israel’s. According to Christian Identitarians, Jacob Israel’s brother, Esau intermingled his seed with those that possessed the seed of the Serpent or Devil.
According to Christian Identity, the Devil really pulled some great tricks with Esau. You see, according to Christian Identity, the Jews of today are really descendants of Esau and Satan and not the 12 Sons or Tribes of Jacob Israel. What’s more according to Christian Identity is that Christianity is really all about race, a Christian according to them can only be a White Gentile. White Gentiles according to Christian Identity are the real Jews or descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
According to those espousing Christian Identity, John 8:44 is only one of a plethora of proofs that modern Jews are living, breathing, genetic children of the Devil.
John 8:44 Ye are 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.
Jesus spoke those words to the Pharisees and other Jews of the time.
The thing is, he is recorded as explaining what he meant by this earlier in John 3:8:
John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Another Lying Ideology
Christian Identity is an odd duck. Most of its adherents I’ve talked to would probably not accept that Christ meant spiritual children.
Christian Identity has roots in Britain that are a few hundred years old. Within Christian Identity, you have the Whites/Jews, Fake Jews/Serpent Children, and then the rest of the races are basically soulless. Christian Identity’s adherents are odd and aggressive. Some are seemingly very well versed in what they believe.
It is hard to say what the Christian Identity leadership is up to and/or who they answer to. It may well be that Christian Identity is being spread to make those with legitimate racial grievances look bad and to otherwise exasperate the situations out there.
I will have more debunking Christian Identity going forward.