Cain And Abel's Gifts Essay
What is the significance and nature of Cain and Abel’s gifts?
What was the basis of their acceptance or rejection? Gen. 4:1-6
v.3 (AKJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.
v.4 (AKJV) And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering:
v.5 (AKJV) But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
It appears that Cain was definitely an over the top kind of character. These were people that were apparently in very close proximity of God in a way that we do not typically experience. Cain's parents walked with God in the garden. …show more content…
Then to ice the cake of ill doing when God approaches Cain with a rhetorical question of his whereabouts, he responds like an unyielding juvenile delinquent. You can sense the pout on his lips as he says to his Creator "How do I know, I don't keep up with him" as he responds with a defiant rhetorical question of his own in which he repudiates any responsibility for his brother. [Ge 4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?] The family of Cain exists today in a spiritual sense and is the underlying force behind every persecution of believers, rebellion against God, and humanistic driven religious system that wants to come to God on their terms with no respect for the terms that God has mapped out from the foundation of the world. By faith Abel offered the better sacrifice and it is the only way to reconcile to God. [Eph. 2: 8 (AV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Eph. 9 Not of works, lest any man should
What was the basis of their acceptance or rejection? Gen. 4:1-6
v.3 (AKJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.
v.4 (AKJV) And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering:
v.5 (AKJV) But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
It appears that Cain was definitely an over the top kind of character. These were people that were apparently in very close proximity of God in a way that we do not typically experience. Cain's parents walked with God in the garden. …show more content…
Then to ice the cake of ill doing when God approaches Cain with a rhetorical question of his whereabouts, he responds like an unyielding juvenile delinquent. You can sense the pout on his lips as he says to his Creator "How do I know, I don't keep up with him" as he responds with a defiant rhetorical question of his own in which he repudiates any responsibility for his brother. [Ge 4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?] The family of Cain exists today in a spiritual sense and is the underlying force behind every persecution of believers, rebellion against God, and humanistic driven religious system that wants to come to God on their terms with no respect for the terms that God has mapped out from the foundation of the world. By faith Abel offered the better sacrifice and it is the only way to reconcile to God. [Eph. 2: 8 (AV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Eph. 9 Not of works, lest any man should