From who or how did Abel get the idea of sacrificing, cutting up pieces of a lamb to God...a live sacrifice.?

Question

Who instructed him?

Answer 1

From His Parents Adam & Eve remember after they partook of the fruit in the garden? Genesis 3:7 And the Eyes of them were open and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together , and made themselves aprons (man's way they were doing this there own way) God's covering required the shedding of blood for remission of blood without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin's Hebrews 9:22 that is why in Genesis 3:21 the Lord Made Coats of skin and Clothed them this is where the clothing that was suitable for them was made. But it cost the life of an animal to cover their sin. This was just the beginning of million's of gallons of blood yet to be shed for the remission of sins for the nation of Israel. But thank God Jesus Christ became that supreme sacrafice! For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Answer 2

This isn't stated explicitly, but I think is implied.

After Adam and Eve sinned through their disobedience, they were ashamed and God clothed them in an animals skin...

Genesis 3:21. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

So in this way, God performed the first sacrifice to cover their sin. Was it a lamb? Perhaps. Did God give Adam instructions as to why he did this? Perhaps. Adam was in communion with God and they talked. I'm sure Adam would have passed this on to his children, of which he probably had many.

Wouldn't you just love to have been around the camp fire of that family? That would have been really cool.

Anyway... since the Bible says that God was not pleased with Cain's sacrifice, I think that makes it clear that Cain would have known what was expected, else why would God have been displeased with it. God makes his rules known before he holds us accountable for them.

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Answer 3

the answer would be..God himself. God talked to Adam & Eve, and God would have communicated with Cain & Abel. The Bible (obviously) does not have all the conversations that God had with every person that ever lived. There wouldn't be enough time in our lives to read it even once..
Even as it says below, all of the things Jesus did are not written down as it would just be too much. God did a lot of things that are not written.. Like in 20:31 it says these are written so you can believe and have life (eternal) through his name..

John 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Answer 4

Remember that when Adam and Eve got kicked out the garden, God first made animal skin coverings for them (the fig leaves really weren't cuttin' it). So, God killed the first animal.

Now, before you get up in arms at how cruel that sounds, consider this: He made it clear to them that to eat of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" would mean certain death. So, He fulfilled the demands of justice in such a way that spared them (love must fulfill justice or it is not loving). He killed the lamb instead. This is a powerful picture of atonement, a foreshadowing of the cross of Christ.

We're told in the New Testament the reason for the sacrifice system, as well as the necessity of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus: blood must be shed for sin to be atoned for. Why? Because the consequence of sin is death and the life is in the blood. And love that denies justice is not loving. (God's clever enough to fulfill both in one swift act--being crucified.)

This truth was demonstrated and established by God Himself when the lamb was killed and coverings were made for Adam and Eve. They were probably horrified, as they had never seen death before. But the point was made and they probably passed on the practice and its lessons to their children.

Answer 5

The world was different then and cutting up lambs was a common activity for people. It would be a lot like tithing now, giving a part of your assets to god. Their assets were more in things like lambs than cash like ours. Many cultures over time have had customs of giving a part of the harvest or food or whatever they have as resources to deities as a thanks. If you were in hawaii before europeans got there it would probably be pineapples and fish for example. Not so weird.

Answer 6

It was God who taught them about the act of sacrifice. That’s why they were able to do the action. God might also teach them the different types of sacrifices. The one is a vegetable offering, the other an animal; the one a presentation of things without life, the other a sacrifice of life.
Habel’s offering differs from that of his brother in outward form. It consists of the firstlings of his flock. These were slain; for their fat is offered. Blood was therefore shed, and life taken away. To us who are accustomed to partake of animal food, there may appear nothing strange here. We may suppose that each brother offered what came to hand out of the produce of his own industry. But let us ascend to that primeval time when the fruit tree and the herb bearing seed were alone assigned to man for food, and we must feel that there is something new here. Still let us wait for the result.
The two offerings are therefore expressive of the different kinds of faith in the offerers. They are the excogitation and exhibition in outward symbol of the faith of each. The fruit of the soil offered to God is an acknowledgment that the means of this earthly life are due to him. This expresses the barren faith of Cain, but not the living faith of Habel. The latter has entered deeply into the thought that life itself is forfeited to God by transgression, and that only by an act of mercy can the Author of life restore it to the penitent, trusting, submissive, loving heart. He has pondered on the intimations of relenting mercy and love that have come from the Lord to the fallen race, and cast himself upon them without reserve. He slays the animal of which he is the lawful owner, as a victim, thereby acknowledging that his life is due for sin; he offers the life of the animal, not as though it were of equal value with his own, but in token that another life, equivalent to his own, is due to justice if he is to go free by the as yet inscrutable mercy of God.
Such a thought as this is fairly deducible from the facts on the surface of our record. It seems necessary in order to account for the first slaying of an animal under an economy where vegetable diet was alone permitted. We may go further. It is hard to suppose the slaying of an animal acceptable, if not previously allowed. The coats of skin seem to involve a practical allowance of the killing of animals for certain purposes. Thus, we arrive at the conclusion that there was more in the animal than in the vegetable offering, and that more essential to the full expression of a right faith in the mercy of God, without borrowing the light of future revelation. Hence, the nature of Habel’s sacrifice was the index of the genuineness of his faith. And the Lord had respect unto him and his offering; thereby intimating that his heart was right, and his offering suitable to the expression of his feelings. This finding is also in keeping with the manner of Scripture, which takes the outward act as the simple and spontaneous exponent of the inward feeling. The mode of testifying his respect to Habel was by consuming his offering with fire, or some other way equally open to observation.

Answer 7

All religious tales are stories passed down through generations. Who instructed the tortoise that the hare would get cocky and take a break?

Answer 8

I imagine it was the best way he could show God that he was willing to sacrifice something of worth to him to atone for his sins. I don't know that anyone instructed him to do so.

Answer 9

Wasn't it Yahweh? Didn't he "talk" to them back in the day?

Answer 10

He read the Bible of course.