The "seed of the woman" and other parroted teachings

It amazes me how many times I hear the same "bible" teaching over and over again that is not what the bible says about it.  One popular "teacher" comes up with something new that sounds good and instead of checking it out with the bible, it is parroted over and over again sometimes for decades before it is pointed out to be wrong.

One of the common teachings from the 1970's by Hal Lindsey was that the "biblical generation was 40 years because that is how long they wandered in the wilderness".  Any basic reading of the bible would show that this is false because Ancient Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years so those over age 20 would die off.  The generation was also affected by the times Yahweh became angry with them and nearly wiped all of them out.

Another incorrect teaching that is commonly parroted by those that should know better was that Lot was a compromiser and that is why he chose to live in sodom.  Lot of course sinned, as every person does, but the bible never mentioned any of his sins and Yahweh called him righteous.  I pointed out in a previous post (Post: Righteous Lot)

There is another teaching that is often parroted that is making the rounds again.  That teaching is that this verse is speaking of Yeshua's virgin birth because "women do not have seed" :

Genesis 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed^H2233  and her seed^H2233 ; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

While Yeshua's virgin birth is real and is a fact and there are numerous prophecies in the Old Testament that prophecy of it, Genesis 3:15 is NOT a prophecy about it! 

While this verse is a prophecy about Yeshua, it says nothing of His virgin birth.  The erroneous teaching that claims it does says "women do not have seed therefore this is a prophecy about Yeshua's virgin birth".   Yet when Seth was born, Eve used the same word for his birth:

Genesis 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed^H2233 instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Strongs H2233

1.         seed, sowing, offspring
2.         a sowing       
3.         seed
4.         semen virile
5.         offspring, descendants, posterity, children
6.         of moral quality
7.         a practitioner of righteousness (fig.)
8.         sowing time (by meton)

Some try and make a case that the term "the seed of a woman" is only about Yeshua and a prophecy about a virgin birth when it is NOT as shown when Eve used the same word for Seth.  The same word, seed, is also used by the angel to Hagar about Ishmael so obviously seed is being used to mean posterity and has nothing to do with the virgin birth of Yeshua

Genesis 16
9  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed^H2233 exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

While Yeshua's virgin birth is real and is a fact and there are numerous prophecies in the Old Testament that prophecy of it, Genesis 3:15 is NOT a prophecy about it! 

When we hear a teaching, we are to be like the Bereans and take that teaching and compare it with scripture to see if it is true or not.  We are to not take ANY teaching from ANY person at face value.

Acts 17
10  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12  Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.