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Cain & Abel

A painting of Cain and Abel sacrificing to God, painted by Mariotto Albertinelli, c.1510

 

This is how my brain works.

I was laying in bed thinking about Nick Offerman. He's an American Actor I know from Supernatural and Last of Us. He played Cain in Supernatural, which was my first introduction to Nick Offerman and he was so hot. However then I began to think about the story of Cain and Abel.

So I just went and took a quick refresher on the Cain and Abel story so that my own thoughts on it were correct. The Bible only says that Cain and Abel were born and that Cain worked the soil and Abel was a shepherd. Both brought sacrifices to the Lord but only Abel's was looked upon favorful because it was an animal sacrifice and Cain brought vegetables. Now if the Lord as really omnipotent he would have known that by not looking upon Cain's sacrifice as favorful would cause him to kill his brother. Also didn't the Lord ask Cain where Abel was after Cain killed him? So the Lord should have told Cain that he only wanted animal sacrifices and Cain could have bartered for a lamb to sacrifce and gain the Lord's approval.

This leads me to my second thought on this. Why does the god of the Old Testament seem like a different entity than the god of the New Testament? The Old Testament god is jealous and vengeful, destoying cities, killing the entire population with a flood except one family (who are decendants of Cain by the way). Then there is the New Testament god who says that no matter what you do (except for a couple unforgivable sins) if  you ask for forgiveness, you'll be forgiven.

Which brings me to my last thoughts on the subject: There is an interview with Stephen Fry that I'll never forget. If you don't know who Stephen Fry is, he's an English actor, writer, comedian. My favorite clip is where the rare parrot tries to mate with his cameraman: https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=clEU9vrliHGCR3oU

However the clip in question is: https://youtu.be/-suvkwNYSQo?si=AIY94K3WbTGcUwX9 This was the clip that made me really question my own thoughts on the Judeochristian god.

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