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In the story of Cain and Abel, I am wondering about this part sepcifically:
" The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering, but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious and he scowled in anger. Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry?" Why that scowl on your face? If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling, but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door." Gn 4: 4-7 What evil has Cain done? What sin has he commited? Why won't the Lord accept his offering? It seems to me the Lord is being picky and showing a bit of favoritism. Cain was a farmer, and Abel was a shepherd. Why couldn't the Lord accept the offering of Cain's harvest? |
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Seems to me that it is because of the insincerity of Cains offering.
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(what a lousy translation)
Do you want exegesis or explanation?
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An explanation if you please, and why is it such a lousy translation?
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The narrative evolved from a pastoralist (bedu) culture and reflects their bias.Exegesis: Cain acted in a perfunctory manner (4:3) while Abel gave his best (4:4).
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I think this goes in "comparitive religion"...
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From what I have read from a previous post on RF (one of Jay's I believe), it was Cain's offering was not of a good quality, and the Biblical translation is poor.
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It seems that God likes the smell of burnt meat a lot:
Genesis 8:20-21 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. |
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And I'm not a robot, I'm not a monkey
I will not dance even if the beat's funky Opposite of lazy, far from a punk Ya'll oughta stop talking Start trying to catch up |
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