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13 hours ago comment added Nigel J Cain could not be judged as there was no witness and no confession. He chose to leave Adam's household (the presence of the Lord) rather than resolve the matter.
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18 hours ago answer added So Few Against So Many timeline score: 1
18 hours ago comment added Ryan Pierce Williams @SoFewAgainstSoMany the idea of blood defiling the land applies equally to manslaughter and to murder. See Numbers 35:32-33
18 hours ago comment added So Few Against So Many That's where you got it wrong pal, Cain murdered his own brother. He physically assaulted him, the blood of your brother is crying to me in the fields
18 hours ago answer added Anne timeline score: 2
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yesterday comment added Ryan Pierce Williams @Kristopher They ate of the fruit of knowledge - which represents the Law - and knew good and evil. At any rate, it was God who judged Cain - not a human judge. So there’s no issue with interpreting the passage in light of the Law if we assume that God is consistent in his judgement. Rather, it would be more problematic to argue that God was using a different standard to judge Cain - showing him mercy despite never owning up to or repenting of his actions.
yesterday comment added Mary Note that there has been semantic drift in the terms. In the time of the KJV, "murder" meant what we would call "assassinate"; "kill" meant "murder"; and "slay" meant "kill."
yesterday comment added Kris The law was not given yet when Cain killed Able
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