In Genesis four God is portrayed through his discovery and reaction of Abel’s death by Cain. Cain is angry that he receives less favor for his crops then Abel does for his livestock, and out of jealousy he kills Abel. Cain tries to fool God, but he quickly realizes that Cain has killed his brother. God banishes Cain and states, “If anyone kills Cain, sevenfold vengeance shall be taken on him.” Cain has committed a capital offense in Biblical Law, and God punishes Cain accordingly. After reading the Genesis four one passage from weeks two and three stood out to me as it features god’s children acting against his will, similarly as Cain does in Genesis 4. The passage that sticks out is Genesis three. Genesis tells of the Garden of Eden and the mis-action taken by Adam and Eve that resulted in harsh repercussions for them both. God punishes Adam with banishment and Eve with the pain of childbirth.
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In Genesis three God states “You shall not eat of it or touch it, lest you die.” God is testing Adam and Eve, and they failed. God would not let them perish from eating the fruit but he wanted to test the two so that he knew whether they were loyal or not. God similarly tests Cain’s loyalty after he gives Abel more favor for his offering than Cain and states, “Surely, if you do right, there is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin couches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be its master.” Here God has explained to Cain that if he continues to give his crops soon he see greater favor, but he also talks of the temptations Cain faces, and fulfills soon after. Adam, Eve, and Cain are all children of god, and he wanted to test out how children acted out of free will. They all acted against his will and they were harshly punished for their insubordinate
Genesis 4:1-6-And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?
The biblical story of Cain and Abel plays a central role in the novel East of Eden. In "Genesis", Adam and Eve 's sons, Cain and Abel, offered sacrifices to God. The shepherd Abel sacrifices his best lamb, while the farmer Cain offers grain. Because God prefers Abel 's gift over Cain 's, Cain becomes infuriated and kills his brother in a jealous rage.
He later lured his brother out to a field, then he killed him. Cain did this because he was “never at heart’s ease” with his new ranking with God. After murdering Abel, God punished Cain by never permitting Cain to die or be killed, forcing him to wander the earth wretchedly.
The topic of free-will then comes into play. Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and eat from the Tree of Knowledge, even when they knew it wasn’t the right thing to do. Because they were disobedient to God’s rules, the two are sent out of Paradise to Earth. From then on, women would now face painful childbirth and would be ruled by their husbands. Men would then have to labor the rest of their lives to make a living. Finally, God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden forever. In the version of the Bible, the expulsion is
“Now Cain said to his brother Able, ‘Let’s go out to the field.’ And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Able and killed him (Genesis 4:8)”
God punished Cain, by cursing him from the earth, and making him a fugitive on earth.
In the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, God as the omnipotent deity knows that Cain killed Abel. Still, he asks Cain where is Abel. Cain says a very famous sentence asking God is he is Abel’s keeper. To this, God decides to punish Cain. He says that Cain will be cursed from the earth, which until this point was Cain’s source of living. When Cain would work on earth, it would not give him its strength. He will be a wanderer and a vagabond from that day. Cain replied that his punishment is greater than he can bear. Although many can disagree with him, some say that this punishment is not that great, God did not kill or even punished him in some physical way. But it has to be remembered that in this story, there were only four people known at
God favored Abel 's sacrifice of milk and meat over Cain 's offering of fruits. This angered Cain, and presumably out of jealously, he murdered his brother, Abel. Just as Cain was the first physical birth in the bible, Abel is the first recorded death (and murder) of the bible. God questions Cain on the death of Abel, and Cain lies and tells God that he did not murder his brother.
In Genesis 4:1-9 it tells about how Cain was very jealous of his brother Abel and killed him. From this situation Cain wasn’t being his brother’s keeper by killing him just because Abel’s offering had respect and his didn’t. Even though I know he had a lot of anger towards his brother he shouldn’t have killed him. Basically he wasn’t being kind or nice.
God hears Abel's cries for help from Cain killing him, and He is very angry. For how can a man kill his own brother? After God talks to Cain, Cain is very upset with himself and can not believe what he has done. Cain realizes that anger is common, but it drew him to make decisions he will later
Cain’s suffering lead to the moral actions have consequences. In the story, the Lord has a confrontation with Cain about the killing.
The story of Cain and Abel is a well know story in the bible and many different texts take examples from it. The story is about two brothers whose parents were Adam and Eve. Their names were Cain and Abel. Abel kept flocks and Cain worked the soil. Cain once took the Lord an offering of fruit and then Abel took an offering of fat from his firstborn flock. The Lord took favor of Abel and not so much Cain. Cain then became angry and jealous that the Lord showed favor over him. The bible said “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him” (Gen. 4.8). The Lord found out and put Cain under a curse, so that his crop would no longer prosper. The Lord
Cain is unable to communicate with god about what he is feeling. God asks Cain, “Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen’” (4:6). Cain is unable to express that he was hurt by god’s reaction because he feels as though god has betrayed him by liking Abel’s gift more. In Cain’s mind, god has already taken sides and stacked the deck against him. Cain could not confide to god because he felt abandoned and unloved by god. On the other hand, Abel too was to blame for not consoling his brother. The passage narrates, “And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect” (4:4). Abel also witnessed that Cain’s gift was not accepted but he makes no effort to console his brother. This might be due in part, to Abel wishing to overshadow his brother in the eyes of god. Earlier the text states that Cain and Abel were brothers who even though they loved each other very much did not always get along. Sibling bickering and rivalry could have led to Abel and Cain not communicating to each other about what they were feeling. We as a people share the traits of Cain when it comes to not always being about to communicate about what we are
4:4b-5a). In Romans 4:15, Paul recorded, “Where there is no law there is no transgression.” Therefore, if God had not made the law available to Cain, there could have been no transgression of the law. Obviously, there was a transgression of the law, because of what God would tell Cain next. “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” This shows irrefutably that Cain knew the law of God, because God points out his sin. Therefore, God did not leave His worship up to sinful man, because He told Cain that he had worshiped Him in the wrong manner. God must have made the law available to Cain for there to be transgression. In the wording of Genesis 4:7 is the implication that Cain knew the law concerning sacrifices; “if you do well, will you not be accepted?” implies that he knew how to do well, thus also showing that God did not leave His worship up to the decision of man.
In the story of Adam and Eve, their exile is God’s punishment for them of straying off the path that He had planned for them. “For dust you are and to dust shall you return” in this God explains that man is not the equivalent to God but instead He is a mere mortal (Gen. 3:19). This quote reaffirms the idea of the relationship of Gods and humans in two ways. The first is that God’s intervention is one of punishment. God is punishing man for his misdeeds. His intervention is reaffirming the separation between God and humans. He begins to establish the relationship that He is the almighty that rules over all. The relationship between the humans and God shows one of mistrust and division. Humans betray the trust of God, when they eat the apple. But God does not understand