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Originally Posted by Elmer G. White
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I was particularly interested in the picture
[ABOVE] and have a question. God knew that in order to atone for the sin about to be expressed through murder, He would need to make Mary pregnant and kill His son. Now I don't want to know why He didn't make Eve pregnant or, if virginity were necessary, her daughter because that is just being silly. It doesn't stop people asking me that though. My question is did Cain already know God was not going to be incarnated as a watermelon to atone for the sin his mother had infected him with and deliberately offer fruit?
After all, Adam had been required to til the soil and Cain was following that tradition.
GENESIS 3 .KJV . context
17 [God speaking to Adam] Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
The picture shows Abel with his lamb. In
Genesis 9 God explained about eating meat, but before that would Abel have had any reason to consider killing a lamb without inspiration from The Lamb Of God who had created his mother not so long ago? And if that inspiration was not also available to Cain then Cain could hardly be in any transgression so my question is, was Cain being deliberately blasphemous if comparing Jesus to vegetation?