Cain and Abel?

Question

Tell me what you know of Cain and Abel's story, leading up to Abel's death and afterward. Thanks!

Answer 1

Cain and Abel were the first humans born in the usual way. Their parents, Adam and Eve, were created - Adam from the "red clay" of the earth, Eve from a part of Adam. Cain was the older of the two, although perhaps not by much. Some students of the Bible interpret the verse which describes their birth as meaning that they were twins. A number of other children were also born to Adam and Eve later.
Cain and Abel were born after their parents had been put out of the Garden of Eden. Cain became a worker of the soil, while Abel became a Shepherd. Back then, there were two choices for a career - you either worked with plants (growing and harvesting) or animals (raising or hunting). Millions of people today continue in these two vital professions - we could not survive without them.

When the day came to make an offering to God, Cain and Abel brought their tribute. Abel brought some of the very finest from his flocks, while Cain deliberately brought an average-quality offering from his crops. Cain could have done better, but he chose not to for some reason. Perhaps he thought that the all-knowing God would not notice.

God accepted Abel's offering with favor, but He rejected Cain's offering. It wasn't due to a preference of meat over vegetables, but rather that Abel had brought the best that he possibly could, and had done it willingly. Cain knowingly brought not his best, and even then brought it grudgingly. The very same offering would have been accepted if it had been the best that he could do, and if he had offered it with the right attitude. Abel was cooperative and generous; Cain was selfish and miserly.

Even though the rejection was his own fault, the incident made Cain very jealous and angry with Abel, entirely without cause. Abel had merely done what God expected of him.

The rest of the tragedy is well known. Cain allowed his jealousy to turn to anger, and then his anger to hate. Instead of bringing himself up by doing better next time (as God plainly explained to him in Genesis 4:7), he chose to take Abel down - he committed the premeditated murder of his own righteous brother.

Abel is described as "righteous" in the New Testament. He didn't live very long in this life, but he will more than make up for it in the next. With whatever he had to work with, he had simply made his best possible effort - exactly what God expects of us today.

Answer 2

Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, "in the course of time" brought offerings to the Lord (Genesis 4:3). Without doubt, they were doing this because God had revealed it to them. Some question, “How were Cain and Abel supposed to know what to sacrifice?” The answer is that God must have instructed them. It is clear that the offering was to be a substitutionary atonement, because we read in Hebrews 11:4, "By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did." When Abel came for worship, it was by faith that he brought his offering, "fat portions from some of the first-born of his flock" (Genesis 4:4). The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, and it was accepted.

His brother Cain brought "some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord" (Genesis 4:3). But on Cain and his offering the Lord did not look with favor. We do not know how He expressed His rejection, but it was evident. In Jude’s epistle, verse 11, we read, "They have taken the way of Cain," referring to lawless men. This may mean that they, like Cain, disobediently devised their own ways of worship; they did not come by faith. Cain’s offering, while acceptable in his own eyes, was not acceptable to the Lord. The result was that Cain became very angry, and later, in the field, he killed his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8).

Why did Cain kill Abel? It was premeditated murder, caused by anger, jealousy, and pride. John wrote, "Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous" (1 John 3:12). The evil in his heart was further revealed when the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don’t know," he replied. "Am I my brother’s keeper?" (Genesis 4:9). The Lord brought a curse on Cain, and he went out from His presence.

Answer 3

Campbell has a plenty extra convenient clarification of the Cain & Abel tale. This replaced right into a narrative recorded and advised via nomadic herding people (the Hebrews) who lived in close proximity to agricultural city-states. in the story, Cain the farmer is the undesirable guy and Abel the herdsman is the coolest guy. Abel's animal sacrifices are beautiful to God--so because it fairly is a reaffirmation of the Hebrews' way of existence--yet Cain's agricultural options at the instant are not beautiful to God. So the subtext right that's, in case you opt for to thrill God, be a herder and not a farmer. like the Hebrews. Who advised this tale. and additionally beware that the farmers are not getting jealous and kill you. Campbell additionally factors to tale after tale in the OT wherein the extra youthful brother shows himself to be extra beautiful to God than the older brother as dramatizing the comparable relationship between the (youthful) nomadic Hebrews and their settled, on occasion opposed, (older) acquaintances.

Answer 4

Cain was mad because he didn't make as good a sacrifice as his brother Abel did. So he was tempted by the devil and so he ended up killing him. Then, on top of that, he lied to God himself about it, and in return Cain was pronounced a Son of Perdition. (which is knowing for a fact of God's existence by talking to Him by revelation or seeing Him and still doing something that bad)
So.... basically that's it. :D

Answer 5

Well......i think that cain was mad because able's offering was better accepted and then he killed him and then the lord cursed him by giving him dark skin and making him live forever. personally i think that big foot is cain dressed up in the furs of animals to keep himself warm and stays away from ppl because that was also part of his curse. but that's just me and some ppl think i am nuts!!! oh well.

Answer 6

Cain and Abel were the first members of the K.K.K

Answer 7

It is an easy read BS story in Genesis. Jump on it.

Answer 8

They were the first humans born the usual way?

Answer 9

a myth of man's contrivance.

Answer 10

read it yourself

http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Gen/Gen004.html#2