God threw Cain's sacrifice back in his face? Please tell how you know this since it is obviously not in Genesis?
Oh come now, I thought you religious types were good at understanding what should be taken as metaphor and what should be taken literally. You seriously thought I imaged god picking up a banana and slapping Cain around the face with it? Seriously, apply some thinking.
It simply says that God showed respect for Abel's sacrifice.
Yes, and showed no respect to Cain for his offering. What exactly are you trying to argue against? You've already agreed several times that god wants meat/burning meat - and yet there is no reason to say Cain knew any of this, and couldn't have done better considering his job was as a soil tiller.
Of course, with blatant hypocrisy you accuse me of something and then do it three seconds later:
In some way, God made it clear to the brothers which sacrifice was acceptable.
So now I need to repeat your sentence: "Please tell how you know this since it is obviously not in Genesis?"
I doubt, like me, you can state it was a metaphor, so why are you going along this line of serious make-believe? This is what your whole argument comes down to? Fantasy make it up as you go along? What next, a leprechaun sent by god came to Cain and told him to sacrifice a cow instead of offering a plum? Get real.
Worst of all you didn't even manage a full explanation, but could only muster: "in some way".
Don't waste my time with this, please.
God even tries to rationally reason with Cain but Cain will have none of it.
Rationally? There is no "rationally" in having a go at someone for giving you a kiwi fruit instead of a dead goat. Especially when expecting it from a soil tiller.
God did exactly this, by showing preference for one sacrifice over the other. There is nothing in the record which says God showed disfavor toward Cain's sacrifice - only favor/respect toward Abel's. Nothing could be clearer.
Now you're just being plain silly. god had a go at Cain for his offering, and as you've agreed many times now, it's due to god having this serious like for meat as opposed to ground produce. The best you could manage was to say "somehow, wishing on a star, god informed them beforehand", when that is quite clearly ridiculous nonsense - and yet you do not deny the telling off that Cain received for his offering, you just try to dismiss it with make-believe.
You seem to be trying to say that Cain should be excused for pre-meditated murder?
Then you should start reading my post better. There's nothing in my post claiming Cain didn't murder anyone, simply that god could have found a better method by which to tell Cain he prefers meat. I was explaining the difference between a lousy parent and a good one.
I suppose that since you are angry with me that we should excuse you if you trick me into going out into a field and then strike me down from behind?
This question has no worth to anything, and you know it. The issue is not that Cain should be excused, but that god should use his noodle once in a while. There's many times in life when a parent sits down and thinks "hmm, maybe I could have handled that a better way". In this instance, god would be that parent - but he has no excuse seeings as he would have known the outcome before it happened.
Truthseeker:
But yeah.... hear God's words in those scriptures. Does it sound like a vengeful God or a God that is actually trying to help Cain?
Trying to help him? By completely stopping his ability to do his job, which in those days would have been a matter of life and death?
You can read this further on my last post to you, which awaits your attention. Thanks.