Genesis 4:8 “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
So was this premeditated murder after Cain mulled and stewed over his conversation with Abel, or did the conversation take place in the field too, and Cain just lost control and flew into a spontaneous fit of murderous rage? Either way, the text seems to make a connection with the conversation between the two brothers and the following scene of the crime.
What did Cain have to say to his brother after his talk with God? Whatever Abel’s response was, Cain must not have liked it one bit. Some people say dialogue solves all differences, but that claim doesn’t hold up well in the laboratory of the great controversy between good and evil where Satan has mastered the manipulation and mixing-up of human thoughts and emotions to render them caustic, volatile and destructive.
Cain chose to ignore God’s warning, and may have even misinterpreted and twisted the last part of it to further his own ends: which ended up being the premature, though temporary, end of his brother, and a decisive turn toward his own eternal end. What a disastrous outcome.
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