(September 8, 2015 at 2:24 am)robvalue Wrote: It's actually pretty hard to come up with examples.The reason why God let Cain get away with killing Abel is that God hadn't told them not to kill each other. That rule came much later. Now there were a lot of people around the Garden of Eden. It was just down the road from Persia, Assyria, Ethiopia, and Arabia (Genesis 2:10-14).
When Cain killed Abel, for some reason God dealt with that by deciding Cain needed protection from retribution. So he put a mark on him so that people would know he was protected.
He could have just told them all, there were only supposedly about 3 other people at that time.
After Cain left the Garden he went to the land of Nod on the east of Eden and built a city with his wife. He was never a fugitive and a vagabond. Villages, towns, and cities have a lot of people in them other than just one couple. So if anything Cain should get credit for being the first city builder. He was a least the mayor if not the king of the burg.
In the story of Cain and Abel Cain didn't commit a sin when he killed Abel. Killing wasn't illegal at that time.
