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    cain


    1. crouching at the door of Cain (Genesis 4:7)


    2. (Genesis chapters two and three); Cain and Abel and the murder of Abel by Cain (Genesis,


    3. Cain paid the consequence of not listening to God


    4. At one point, John says, “Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother


    5. followed by the story of Cain and Able


    6. Genesis states in 4:15 & 24 that if Cain is slain, he’ll be avenged


    7. CAIN: His sin was the first murder, which, by most, is believed to


    8. Genesis tells us that after Cain slew Abel, he exited Eden to the Land of Nod and took himself a wife


    9. Question: If Cain and Abel were the world"s first children, whence came a wife from the Land of Nod


    10. Cain currently lives in Leicestershire with her husband and young son

    11. I suspect that one was in readiness at the time Cain bludgeoned his brother (Abel) to death preparing an opening defense argument for temporary insanity


    12. It was also not the first time that I had read the story of Cain and Abel


    13. The story of Cain and Abel takes place in Genesis (Gen


    14. The story of Cain and Abel is told in a short terse manner, using few words to convey much more than the simple interplay between the three main characters


    15. This leads one to conclude an inference that Cain, the firstborn, with the higher status of the two was engaged in that more important occupation


    16. “At harvest time, Cain brought the Lord a gift of his farm produce, and Abel brought the fatty cuts of meat from his best lambs, and presented them to the Lord” (Gen


    17. “At first we become attached to Cain


    18. This interpretation implies that the idea of presenting offerings began with Cain


    19. However, I cannot agree with the suggestion, even while only implied, that Cain was the originator of the practice


    20. As young children, Cain, the elder of the two, would have naturally taken the lead as they followed in their parent’s footsteps

    21. But Cain could not be happy for his brother’s good fortune; he could think only of his own misfortune and misery


    22. “This made Cain both dejected and very angry; his face grew dark with fury


    23. What should Cain have done, and what could he still do? Show humility on the occasion of having been corrected, for having done something different? Was the rejection because he had offered something newer than the traditional animal sacrifice that had a long history of acceptance? Should he have asked forgiveness for not having done that which might have been required for acceptance of his offering? Should Cain have apologized for “doing it his way?”


    24. All that we can conclude, as the scene abruptly shifts, is that Cain must have carried a grudge away from that confrontation


    25. “Now Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him” (Gen


    26. “And the Lord set a mark on Cain


    27. The Parable of the Prodigal Son suggests that there is a better way, and by searching the more detailed wording of the parable story we may gain a more complete understanding of the background in which the story of Cain and Abel is told


    28. He may have had a little more elaborate reading of the story of Cain and Abel than is available to us today because of being several hundred years closer to it than we are


    29. His Parable of the Prodigal Son (The Lost Son) appears at first glance to be an updated retelling of the story of Cain and Abel for the purpose of teaching a way to avoid the consequences of the first account


    30. At first I was led into it in comparing the story, Cain and Abel, with a known parable, the Prodigal Son, because of my feeling that the two were connected

    31. In the case of Cain and Abel, what larger meaning might it point toward? Earlier in the chapter I asked myself the question, “Was it the offering itself?”


    32. That is the situation that we find ourselves in as we again take up the parable of Cain and Abel


    33. The punishment that was the burden carried by Cain through the rest of his life, his inability to “till the soil” and his “mark,” could also have had a parabolic inference


    34. These are only some of the real-world cultural practices that the parable story of Cain and Abel might have been meant to depict as a way to help guide the casual wonderer to a better understanding of how they came to be


    35. If there’s a moral to be gleaned from this scientific rendition of the Cain and Abel story, in short, it might be that envy in any form is the destroyer of cooperative enterprise


    36. So, the larger meaning of the parable story of Cain and Abel might be the friction generated between settled people and nomadic people, as ever-larger populations of each disputed with one another over land usage


    37. That Cain rose up against Abel his brother


    38. An the lord set a mark on Cain,


    39. But they would never seem as generous as the older more traditional ones (see Cain and Abel)


    40. Adam and Eve had children, two sons called Cain and Abel

    41. Was Cain mentioned first because man’s carnal (that is, self-serving) nature came into being before it was ameliorated by a painfully long, gradual recognition of the primacy of a Creator, in whose name and through whose teachings we seem to have learned the greater good of sharing, as with Abel?


    42. Like Cain, Ishmael was the older brother, the emotionally more volatile, the one closer to nature, while Isaac the younger, was the more civilized in his behavior


    43. In these two, the story of Cain and Abel is retold, but with a twist


    44. Like Cain, Esau was the elder son, and had a more volatile temperament


    45. Because science, suffering through the wounded pride of the non-acceptance of its well-intended discoveries, has built battlements of intellect with which to nullify the answers of old, and with which some of its participants attempt to seek to discharge their senior partner with the cry of obsolescence, we have a fratricide, reminiscent of the biblical Cain and Abel, that could lead to the unintended demise of one or both


    46. «The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain


    47. She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain


    48. When God created Eden, humanity had been walking in the world a long time, millions of years; so much so that after God expelled Adam and Eve from Paradise, Cain killed Abel and, as the only living child of Adam and Eve, left the presence of God and sat on the land of Nod, where he met his wife


    49. Here it is evident that Cain met his wife in the land of Nod because there were women there to be met; and because there were other countries where women lived, other women who were of course not relatives of Adam and Eve


    50. «Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled the soil













































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    (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God