Cain and Abel: Explanation Please. Pretty Pretty Please!
September 4, 2014 at 12:14 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2014 at 12:34 am by Jenny A.)
So what is the moral lesson of Cain and Abel?
Cain and Abel both make sacrifices to god. Abel is a hunter and brings meat. . . yum meat. Cain is a farmer and brings vegetables and grain. . . yum, yum, bread. But god is finds favor only in meat. God apparently demands blood. WHY?
This is like a father looking at the little hand made clay gifts of two sons and throwing bouquets at one and rejecting the other. What kind of good father would do that?
Next Cain kills Abel. Not good. I get that. You don't get to kill your brother because daddy loves him best. But why does Cain get a pass with just exile and a you can't kill me card? Later in the OT the penalty for murder, let alone fratricide, is death. Why doesn't Cain have to pay that price?
It seems to me that this is a tale about the arbitrariness of fate, not an all loving god. Anyone care to explain it differently?
No Christian explanation? Really?
Cain and Abel both make sacrifices to god. Abel is a hunter and brings meat. . . yum meat. Cain is a farmer and brings vegetables and grain. . . yum, yum, bread. But god is finds favor only in meat. God apparently demands blood. WHY?
This is like a father looking at the little hand made clay gifts of two sons and throwing bouquets at one and rejecting the other. What kind of good father would do that?
Next Cain kills Abel. Not good. I get that. You don't get to kill your brother because daddy loves him best. But why does Cain get a pass with just exile and a you can't kill me card? Later in the OT the penalty for murder, let alone fratricide, is death. Why doesn't Cain have to pay that price?
It seems to me that this is a tale about the arbitrariness of fate, not an all loving god. Anyone care to explain it differently?
No Christian explanation? Really?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
