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🗓️ 2 January 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today we read about the First children, Kane and Abel. And speaking of children, if you have any nearby, you may want to preview this episode before sharing it with them. So just a heads up on that. |
0:22.0 | Kane and Abel carried out the |
0:23.9 | sin nature of their parents. The thing about being not God is that we're by |
0:27.8 | nature less than perfect. Yesterday when God finished creating he declared it |
0:32.1 | very good and he blessed man. |
0:34.4 | But being very good and being blessed are entirely different than being perfect and complete. |
0:39.6 | There is zero chance that imperfect man would live up to God's standard of perfection, and we saw that |
0:44.9 | played out today when Cain murdered his brother Abel. |
0:48.4 | What's interesting to me in this passage is that this murder happened about 2,500 years before God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. |
0:55.2 | But Cain still knew murder was wrong, even though it hadn't been written out on the tablets. |
1:00.4 | Those stone tablets weren't necessary for mankind to know right from wrong. |
1:04.0 | Kane even knew what justice required. |
1:06.0 | He knew there would be a natural consequence for his actions, |
1:09.0 | because in 414, he feared other people killing him in response to him killing his brother. |
1:14.9 | One of the things people often ask when they read this story is, where did Kane's wife come |
1:18.8 | from? |
1:19.8 | Because we see in 417 that he got married. |
1:22.3 | Scripture points to all humanity being descended from Adam and Eve, |
1:25.7 | so it doesn't seem like God created a bunch of people |
1:28.0 | independent of them. |
1:29.4 | However, scripture does tell us that Adam and |
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