1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."
2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
3 In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,
4 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,
5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
6 The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?
7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."
8 Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.*
It is common to view Abel as a positive character. Cain killed his brother, but Abel sacrificed animals to a false deity. The Almighty is against offerings, while animal sacrifices pleased the false god. Think about whom you truly believe in when you claim to believe in the One God. If you say you like the violin but call the drum a violin, you are deceiving yourself. If a fool blows himself up along with innocent bus passengers, believing he is fulfilling the will of the Almighty, he fails to realize he has no true faith. When a fanatical believer rejects the revealed gifts of God and considers only past holy scriptures as the final and unchangeable words of God, he blindly believes in what is written, without being able to distinguish between the corrupted and the true text. When reading holy books, you should analyze the texts through the voice of the Almighty - your conscience. However, if you do not listen to His voice, you remain slaves to tyrants and thieves. Listen to the love, conscience, and reason within your soul.
9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
10 And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
12 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
Cain is banished by the false deity, and as the text progresses, the direct descendants of Cain are mentioned. As you can see, since the supposed "creation" of heaven and earth by the false god and the appearance of Adam and Eve, who were also supposedly "created" by this false deity, lots of years have passed - yet their names, as well as the names of their relatives, have apparently not been forgotten. Those who believe that the stories of events that happened lots of years ago are true also believe in the story of Noah: that everyone supposedly perished in the flood, except for Noah and his family, and that all the peoples of the world—Jews, Europeans, Chinese, Africans, and other anthropologically distinct races - descend from them. On the ship, there was supposedly "enough space" for thousands of species of insects, all types of elephants, bulls, rodents, and so on.
To give their story more credibility, it never occurred to the authors to mention that Noah’s sons had slave women from different nations, and thus the various peoples emerged. Or that the DNA of the thousands of passengers, including animals, insects, etc., was stored in test tubes and later regrown into their natural forms. It is not hard to make up something.
Dozens of ships have been found, and it is claimed that these are the Ark of Noah. In reality, although the flood killed many people and animals several centuries ago, numerous people survived in the mountains, and there were regions untouched by the flood. Many of those who were on ships at the time of the flood also survived. That is why the remains of ancient ships are often found far above the foot of the mountains. I do not consider those who believe in falsehoods to be foolish, but rather too lazy to think with their own minds. For nations that do not think with their own minds, thieves and tyrants do the thinking for them. And as they decide, so they plunder, dragging people into wars and keeping them in ignorance.
*The text of the Bible is quoted from the "English Standard Version".
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