Cain’s religion (1)

Ge 4 “³And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.”  Oh Cain the worshiper! among those born of women he was the first on earth to commit the act of worship: he could not live without worshiping, he was really spiritual or religious. Adam and Eve had never even thought about that,

they could not match Cain about the religious character. In fact, Adam, from his creation by the Word of God, had such a character that he could do nothing of his own initiative, but in all he expected to God. God had to speak or reveal for him to do anything. It was not so with Cain: without the Word of God, without God's revelation, he undertook his own initiative to worship God. He could not sleep without praying, he might observe days of fasting or prayer vigil, etc., for, according to him, keeping full communion with the Lord his God.

And many of his descendants now observe the same behavior: they initiate many actions and spiritual undertakings giving to them the illusion that they are in perfect communion with the Lord their God. At the peak of this spiritual life within his own initiatives Cain undertook to offer to God a sacrifice: he chose the first fruits of his labor: the best fruits, pretty flowers, and everything that seemed pleasant to him: he just went on as it seemed good to him. Of course there is nothing we can do either by chance or in our opinion that can be pleasing to God. All the mechanisms that we can design by ourselves can nowise provide us a communion with God Jr 30 “²¹And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.”  We do not seek God, we do not go to Him because we love Him but because He Himself draws us to Him: Jn 6 “⁴⁴No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Anything that has not proceeded from God cannot lead to God. Our great ideas, our genius opinions and our positive initiatives are vain and abominable, only the thought of God is saving and pleasing to God. God has revealed His thoughts to Abel. Abel did not make a run as Cain, but he worked through the faith backed by the revelation of the Truth: Hb 11 “⁴By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.” And this is the Truth: Hb 9 “²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”

Our God abides by His own principles: purification requires blood as staining involves blood, forgiveness requires blood as sin involves blood. The enemy entered through the woman to lead all mankind in the fall, and the Savior had to come through the woman to lift mankind up from this fall, when the enemy deceived this woman, she was still a virgin, but espoused to a man, and even the child who was to be Emmanuel had to be born of a virgin espoused to a man. The same principles that govern the fall are also the same to govern the redemption. If mankind had fallen through a plant fruit, God should have had to save the same mankind through a plant fruit.

Who says sin or stain directly evokes blood, because the soul is in the blood, and the blood animates the flesh. The deeds of sin do have another name: ‘the lusts/works of the flesh’: Ga 5 “¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”  Then Paul lists from verse 19 the lusts of the flesh starting with fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, all of which three concepts relate to sex. Paul ends his list with a suspension point in verse 21 saying " ... and such like" Naturally eating a plant apple is in no way similar to fornication. But pedophilia, for example, was not listed but is similar to other desires of the flesh because it is a perverted form of sexuality and is directly related to blood. Hence, it is not only incompatible with the Bible, but also inconceivable and incomprehensible to think that Eve would have eaten an apple to stain the blood of all mankind, or that the whole thing would have been settled using fig leaves or any other product of the field.

And Abel was humble of heart like his father Adam, and God revealed to him all these mysteries that should offer an acceptable sacrifice. Without divine revelation, the thoughts of man lead straight off the Truth. Eve disobeyed the Word of God and committed sin, i.e.  she stained the blood of all mankind fulfilling a lust of the flesh. The lusts of the flesh are related to the human body, only reason they both recognized they were naked, after sharing the sin or the lust of the flesh. In connection with this, Adam referred his ideas to fig leaves to cover their nakedness, which was ineffective because the products of the fields (leaves, herbs, fruits, flowers, etc.) had nothing to do in this case which engaged blood only. When God came to help, He went straight to the point: He shed the blood of the lamb for the atonement of sin and to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve. Adam then felt soothed to regain perfect communion with his creator through the blood of the Lamb. It was worth a lesson to Adam and all his descendants, that the affairs of blood can be settled only through blood.

But the religion of Cain is to persist in error. Cain returned to the same approach of 'products of the field' reflecting both a denial of the Truth and stubbornness. Abel followed the path of Truth, he slaughtered a lamb according to the revelation. All in all, the sacrifice of Abel pleased God because it was offered in the Truth. Ge 4 “⁵And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. »  In fact, Cain realized he was wrong and his brother was in Truth.

God is righteous, He came down to exhort Cain: Ge 4 “⁶And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”  Response of Cain: “⁸And 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.”  Before judging Cain's murder, one of the works of the flesh listed in Galatians 5 (see above), the just and merciful Lord visited Cain again, to see if he would return to the good feelings to repent, but Cain demonstrated in front of the Lord that he was educated, a lawyer who has mastered the law of evidence « ⁹And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?”

While killing his brother Abel, Cain had taken every precaution to erase all marks and cause all possible evidence to disappear. God could not see the traces of Abel, so he asked, "Where is your Abel brother?” He had all the wisdom of his father, the devil, which made him a very careful man, a criminal and criminologist very discrete. In this self-confidence, he said to the Lord God Almighty "I do not know, am I my brother's keeper?” In other words, if Abel is dead, that is none of my business, or will you provide me the evidence that I have killed Abel? Law in human form is evil and of evidence is luciferian. Justice that we got from God in Jesus Christ, we have obtained not by right, but by grace.

Cain did not need this grace, because he regards what he has (his genius, his knowledge, his wisdom and his achievements) as far more valuable than this grace. And he persists... The second part comes.

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