Cain and Abel: Explanation Please. Pretty Pretty Please!

[Thumpalumpacus]

You mean the favorites are acknowledged and the disavowed are shunned and forgotten? Huh, who'd have thunk it, right? Cain is one of those villains you root for isn;t he? Secretly maybe, the noir sort of release from watching Russel Crowe deliver some blows to a criminal. Guy commits a crime, talks back to the boss- goes on to be unimaginably successful.

I don't mean that, no one is God's favourite. He loves us equally and offers us all the chance of forgiveness and salvation.
For all of us who sin daily it is amasing God even gives the option not to go to Hell but recieve his forgiveness. That is love not favouritism.

No, love is not threatening your creations with eternal torture in the first place.

Here's a parable:

When my son was seven, I caught him writing the word "fuck" in chalk on the sidewalk in front of our apartment. This was obviously bad behavior. Now, I could have thrown him into the oven set at 475F for eternity -- or until my gas bill got too high -- but I instead chose to have him scrub the sidewalk, restricted him to his room for three hours, and made him apologize to our neighbors in the apartment complex.

What is the lesson you draw from this parable?

eta: Here's a clue: you can actually find the answer in the New Testament.