Sequential Logic in Creation
Cain and Abel
Chapter 12
Cain was a wrathful man and his brother Abel was merciful, God regarded Abel's sacrifice as pleasing and God seemed to have associated Himself with the merciful Abel, but distanced Himself from the wrathful Cain, upon seeing this Cain acted in his wrath, which he most likely did not understand for indeed it was something new. Nevertheless, we find something profound here, God speaks with Cain, but there is no account that God spoke with Abel. Why would God dedicate so much attention to Cain, perhaps Cain was actually appointed for some special task on this earth?
Obviously, God educates Cain and He says, "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." [Genesis 4:7]
God disciplined Cain, but did not cut him off, but did the opposite; He placed a seal on his forehead to preserve his life and even to avenge Cain if anyone would attempt to kill him. Obviously, God had a long lasting plan for Cain.
Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. [Gen 4:16]
The land of Nod had already existed because someone before the arrival of Cain had to name it, otherwise this sentence would have been formulated differently. 'East of Eden' would have sufficed, yet the land of Nod is being mentioned; Adam and his family did not sojourn there, Cain was the first one. Cain came to the Land of Nod where he married and raised offspring. And Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived. [Gen 4:17]
So much attention God paid to Cain the wrathful, but seemingly not enough to the merciful Abel whose burnt offering He had accepted.
Now we can see these two ancestral cords intertwined, wrath and mercy. Often we speak of God as love, and we want just that one side of God, everything else we want to keep shrouded in mystery, but why?
The Greek word AGAPEO (New Testament, John 3:16) means to feel affection of love and care, but just as God felt love so He can feel wrath too. We see that out of the Old Testament came the new, but does it mean that the old is no good because the new is better. In order to understand the new we must understand the old, otherwise we will keep on repeating the same questions and remain stuck in a sphere of 'no answer', but if you are desirous to hear truthful answers you must investigate. All investigations are rooted in logic, those who have a poor logic miss the detail and the culprit gets away with mischief.