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Sin death and beyond

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SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN<br />

William Marrion Branham (1909– 1965) was an American Christian minister, usually credited with founding the<br />

post World War II divine healing movement which gave the boost to the Pentecostal revival.<br />

The doctrine that Eve mated with the serpent, or with Satan, to produce Cain also appears in<br />

early Gnostic writings such as the Gospel of Philip (c. 350). This teaching was explicitly<br />

rejected as heresy by Irenaeus (c. 180) <strong>and</strong> later mainstream Christian theologians. A similar<br />

doctrine appeared in Jewish midrashic texts in the 9th century <strong>and</strong> in the Kabalah.<br />

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