Cain and Abel: Explanation Please. Pretty Pretty Please!

[Tobie]

Despite not mentioning the messiah anywhere in the passage.

@Huggy; if Cain is not Adam's son, then neither is Seth, since the same language is used to describe the conception of both of them.

It is a recurring theme throught the Bible that only blood shed can pay for sin and Jesus' death is the ultimate sacrafice the Bible is leading up to. Jesus' death paid for are sin and that is why christians do not sacrafice animals, we just look to the cross. "For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son that who so ever believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life" John 3 16

Blood sacrifice is a remnant from before the ret-con of all the other gods of the Canaanite pantheon. There is a tradition of it in the bible, but it does not explain why, according to your mythology, an all-powerful being would resort to sending down his son to act as a scapegoat for the sins of humanity, rather than just erasing them in the first place.

It's very simple, if Cain was Adams son, he would be included in Adam's genealogy. Seth IS recorded in the genealogy.

The passage you posted is the genealogy of Methuselah, linking him to Adam. That doesn't exclude cain from being Adam's son.