Why was Cain's sacrifice not accepted? What even is a sacrifice, and what makes it acceptable? What does it mean to master temptation? What does it mean to be mastered by temptation? What does it mean to be cursed by God? Who needs to repent: only the oppressors, or all of us? And what does repentance look like, for both? Does God actually hear the cries of the victims, and how does he bring justice?
In this return to the text of Genesis and our walkthrough of the Scriptures, we see that each of us can at any time become either Cain or Abel. We look at the ways in which some portions of this narrative have been used to cause hurt, and we examine what it means for God to call both the innocent and the guilty to master the crouching sin-beast in at the doorway of their own hearts.
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Genesis 4 – What History’s First Criminal Report Can Teach Us - Cerebral Faith
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I will certainly do an entire episode on sacrifice at some point in time. Not sure when, exactly -- probably sometime during Exodus? But yes, total depravity is a nonstarter in the biblical text from the very first event after the Gen 3 fall.
4 days ago
Great summary of sacrifice. Thank you for your correction of ’total depravity’. Cain, and all, can choose to change from evil towards God. ❤
4 days ago
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