RE: The "Cultural Context" Excuse
August 5, 2016 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2016 at 6:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 5, 2016 at 4:28 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: So you deliberately take the scripture out of context?No,it doesn't..just as it doesn;t get any clearer than gen 4:1. The author (in john) expresses our spiritual lineages, as he saw them, not our genetic lineages. That doesn't change the fact that cain and abel were brothers, both of adam. It's simply the acceptance of our ability to be both good and evil. I don't want to hear any more nonsense about context from you...as regards this narrative. You could at least learn the stories if you're going to pretend to believe in them.....
here is the full context.
Quote:Genesis 4
4 Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Strange but true: Twins can have different fathers
Quote:We all know that siblings can have different fathers – technically making them half-siblings – but what about twins? Yup, it happens. In fact, one study estimates that as many as 1 in 400 sets of fraternal twins is "bipaternal."
How is it possible? Simple: Two eggs from the same mother get fertilized by two different fathers – within the same ovulation period.
also
Quote:1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
It doesn't get much clearer than that.
That's an amusing verse, btw, considering that his own works, which were evil....happened to be farming, lol. Have you ever actually read or understood this story? From the above..it seems that the author of john might never have done either. Par for the course with NT bullshit. Hence "jesus".......

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