Week 6, Reading

This week the required reading is Genesis chapters 6:9-9. That's the story of Noah and the flood!

Week 5 Cain and Abel Part B

So Cain kills Abel and then God finds out about it. The interesting thing here is that God does not kill Cain in retaliation in fact he banishes him (which is a horrible punishment), but at the same time he protects him by giving him a mark.



Here's where your kids can argue for a tatoo.



Apparantly in "those times" a person who was found wandering about without a mark to signify his clan was summerialy killed. So God, in all his wisdom did not want Cain killed. He still loved him.



Unfortunatly the bloodlust did not stop there. Cain gave birth to Lamech who sings the praises of his acts of killing people simple because they offended him. It seems like murder has become a culturally acceptable act and this of course sets the stage for the story of Noah. Obviously God can't take this anymore and decides to do something about it.



Do take note however that Lamech the singing murdered hasa three sons. One is a farmer, one and artist and one a blacksmith. All sho live in the city Cain built. This is the first instance in the bible where civilization is giving birth to trade. And man grows from a hunter and a gatherer to enjoy the lesure time and need the singers and the dancers and the artists to amuse him .

Week 5 Cain and Abel Part A

The thing I like best about the story of Cain and able is that the active participants in man's foray into committing the sin of murder is that women are NOT a part of the picture. Seems that the murderous blood lust inflicted on the human species came from MAN.

The only thing Eve does is give birth to Cain her firstborn and then Abel. This whole disaster starts over a sacrifice that the brothers gave to God. I'm not sure when man got the idea that God would like a sacrifice but apparently he did. In fact her preferred the sacrifice that Abel made, "and the Lord looked with favour of Abel and his offering."4:5.

Cain on the other hand brought fruits and vegetables from his field. This is the first time after the fall that man becomes a meat eater and with that blood lust follows.

Again another argument for the Vegan crowd.


By favouring one brother over the other the stage is set. Will man sin? Will he resist? It seems that not even God knows the answer but he gives man the free-will to find out with dire consequences.

In a fit of jealousy Cain kills Abel... Which probably inspired God to write the sixth commandment " You shall not murder"Deuteronomy 5:17.

But don't forget the commandments were not revealed to man yet so Cain was acting out his bottom nature which in this case was to kill.

The important idea here is that Cain choose to kill. God has come to a point in his relationship with man that he has allowed for free will to exist. So we can't wine anymore about why did God make this happen, why didn't God stop that because man is exercising his right to act on his own.

Week 5, Required Reading.

This week I'll be reading Genesis 4, the story of Cain and Able. We've got jealously, murder, intrigue, and banishment all the ugly things that God DID NOT create in Genesis 1. It seems that man, living in the material world void of spirit created these earthy errors.

Read on and see what you think.