Episode 77: Cain's Rejected Sacrifice (Shon Hopkin)

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🗓️ 1 April 2023

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Cain needs no introduction for most of us as Latter-day Saints. He hearkened to the voice of Satan and murdered his brother, Abel. However, is there more to the experience than just that great sin? Professor Shon D. Hopkin of the department of ancient scripture takes us back to one of the earliest episodes in the scriptures to help us understand why God requires us to have not only clean hands but also pure hearts and motives in order to come unto Him.

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0:00.0	Heather, my Wired Religion Friends, Professor Anthony Sweat here from BYU Church History
0:03.8	and Doctorant and Welcome to episode number 77 of the Wired Religion Podcast, where we
0:08.9	bring into a podcast format some of the recent publications from BYU Religion Department.
0:14.9	As you can see from the title of today's episode, it has to do with Cain.
0:19.8	Now Cain needs no introduction for most of us.
0:23.4	The son of Adam and Eve, he harkened to Satan's voice and murdered his brother Abel.
0:29.1	The book of Jude in the New Testament, however, has this really interesting phrase regarding
0:35.6	some who in the New Testament Church were following after Old Testament figures who had
0:41.7	gone astray from the Lord.
0:43.5	Listen to what Jude writes, quote, woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain
0:50.4	and ran greedily after the error of Bailem for reward and perished in the gains saying
0:55.6	of CORE and of quote, that's Jude 111.
0:59.5	Well, what is the way of Cain as Jude phrased it?
1:04.3	I personally don't think that the way of Cain is the sin of murder.
1:09.7	Cain's way is not his outward action, but it's his inward attitude.
1:15.4	Moses chapter 5 verses 16 to 38 classifies Cain's inner inclinations.
1:22.0	He rejected God's words.
1:23.9	He loved the adversary more than God.
1:26.4	He chose to follow Satan's words to offer his own erroneous offering, and then he got
1:31.1	angry inside when God rebuked him for it.
1:34.2	He, quote, rejected the greater counsel end of quote that he received.
1:39.0	He made secret covenants with Satan.
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