When Cain slew Abel and God forced him to exile the family farmstead, Why did Abel say he was afraid to go out there, because of all the people......there weren't any yet??? How can you be paranoid of people when there are only 4 people on this earth?
2007-11-28 17:57:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Get technical why don't you? that was a mistake It was Cain
2007-11-29 05:11:20 · update #1
Not many possible answers. They will either have to add words to the Bible by saing there were more children, more people created or something along those lines, point out some percieved flaw in your question that makes it totally unanswerable to them, or just outright ignore it and preach.
2007-11-28 18:04:36 · answer #1 · answered by Boris Badenov 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Cain and Abel were the first humans born in the usual way. Their parents, Adam and Eve, were created (see The Seven Days Of Creation) - 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.
The Garden 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.
2007-11-28 18:02:02 · answer #2 · answered by iamfromthehood2 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The earth was full of people God created males and females to fill the earth long before he made Adam,God did in fact put a protective mark on Cain so no man would harm him.It is all
in Genesis.
2007-11-28 18:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read some Sumer writings and the Enuma Elish. Adamu was the name of the first humans. There were actually many species of humans at that time. The bible came from the Sumer histories. Abraham was from Ur, a Sumer state.
2007-11-28 18:02:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You'll never be able to prove the bible wrong by asking questions like theses.
People will say: Not everything that happen is written in the bible. The bible would be too long if that were to be true.
I say: be careful with what you say, by proving something wrong, you will prove something right.
If you are against God, then you are on Satan's side. Remember Satan has as much logical power as God does. Example: God cannot destroy Satan without taking his place. For Satan says God is evil, but has no proof, yet.
2007-11-28 18:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by Adversity 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
that was cain that said that. and to my recollection there were other people in the world at that time, however in our Bible of today, they are not spoken of. ive always wondered that too
2007-11-28 18:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by StormChick0587 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geneology Surveys suggests that there are four generations of people in earth... and other 'people' that leaves their signature with their scientific knowledge in 'Egyptian Bulbs'.
2007-11-28 18:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It was Cain that went out there.....
Maybe you should google the story about lillith...
2007-11-28 18:03:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Abel didn't say that, he was dead remember?
Blessings.
2007-11-28 18:00:51 · answer #9 · answered by child of God 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He was scared that those four people would come after him and kill him for what he did. That is why he was scared.
2007-11-28 18:01:25 · answer #10 · answered by Josh D 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋