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Date Posted: 19:07:36 04/20/08 Sun
Author: Cara
Subject: Re: Cain and Abel
In reply to: JPJ II 's message, "Re: Cain and Abel" on 17:34:49 04/20/08 Sun

Well, I think there must have been a pre-sacrifice problem, simply based on the fact that there is a sacrifice. Why would Cain be sacrificing? In order to repent, right? Abel would be sacrificing out of repentance as well. It is possible that Cain had fallen into the sacrificial perception of sacrifice -- pardon the redundancy. Perhaps Cain had been viewing sacrifice as atoning for his sin of itself, rather than bringing him to repentance. If this is the case, God would certainly reject his sacrifice, because "the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit". The evidence for Abel's broken spirit as opposed to Cain's lack thereof may lie in the fact that Abel defers to Cain and lets him go first.

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