Jeff - Deut 28:4
David - Doesn't mean anything, the fruit of both the flock and the ground is mentioned. Besides, that was much later than Cain and Abel.
Remember the SAB said a very simple thing to which all of this is a reaction. It implied that God was cruel for causing or allowing Cain to kill Abel. What I am trying to get across is that the offering wasn't the issue. That there was the possibility that when the text says God looked upon Abel and his offering with favor but didn't look upon Cain and his offering with favor that would seem to me to indicate it wasn't the offering itself.
I point out again and again that later when God gave rules on offerings both were acceptable.
Even later still the Christian writers indicated there was a problem with Cain's faith. Not his offering.
Why don't you fetch waterrock and ask him what he thinks, because I seriously doubt that he would agree with you.
But at least he, being used to this type of pointless debate, might be able to help me see where I missed your great apologetic skills.
You can't even come up with a simple reason why you think what you do, or at least what the hell you are talking about.
God is cruel because he liked Abel's sacrifice more than Cains? God is cruel because he allowed one to kill the other?
Why?!
Nonsense.
David - Doesn't mean anything, the fruit of both the flock and the ground is mentioned. Besides, that was much later than Cain and Abel.
Remember the SAB said a very simple thing to which all of this is a reaction. It implied that God was cruel for causing or allowing Cain to kill Abel. What I am trying to get across is that the offering wasn't the issue. That there was the possibility that when the text says God looked upon Abel and his offering with favor but didn't look upon Cain and his offering with favor that would seem to me to indicate it wasn't the offering itself.
I point out again and again that later when God gave rules on offerings both were acceptable.
Even later still the Christian writers indicated there was a problem with Cain's faith. Not his offering.
Why don't you fetch waterrock and ask him what he thinks, because I seriously doubt that he would agree with you.
But at least he, being used to this type of pointless debate, might be able to help me see where I missed your great apologetic skills.
You can't even come up with a simple reason why you think what you do, or at least what the hell you are talking about.
God is cruel because he liked Abel's sacrifice more than Cains? God is cruel because he allowed one to kill the other?
Why?!
Nonsense.
