Chasing Aslan in the Real World
In the depths of his suffering, guilt, and despair at being cut off from the land, his family, and the Lord, Cain grieves. He declares that he is now condemned to be a vagabond and a wander, and whomever finds him will try to kill him because of what he has done. There is... Continue Reading →
Sometimes we look at the Bible and see something that isn’t there. Our brains are information gathering and pattern recognizing machines par excellence. I say that at the outset here because I’ve noticed something in the narrative with Cain and God’s punishment of him and I’m not sure if it means anything at all. What... Continue Reading →
The murder done and the body presumably in the ground, Cain walks away. I’ve often childishly imagined Cain as sociopath. In my mind he clubbed Abel over the head, and buried him with out a regret, without grief. He was evil and sin incarnate in my little head as I watched a rage faced paper... Continue Reading →
We have no way of knowing how long it was between God’s warning to Adam and the actual eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Eve and then Adam. Similarly, we have now way of knowing the length of time between God’s warning to Cain and the... Continue Reading →
As is usual in the narrative of Genesis, decades and sometimes centuries pass from one sentence to the next. Here in verse two we learn what becomes of Cain and Abel as they mature and grow into their occupations. Abel becomes a shepherd. Cain chooses to continue in the occupation given man in the garden... Continue Reading →
And so, the LORD God drives out the man and installs a pair of Cherubim with flaming swords that turned every which-way to guard the way to the Tree of Life. I’ve been chuckling a little to myself all morning as I’ve imagined this scene given the popular conception of cherubim/cherubs. The image of two... Continue Reading →
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