by David Long
"In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous" (1 John 3:10-12).
Why did Cain murder Abel? Because Cain's works were evil and Abel's righteous. Read Genesis 4 and Hebrews 11:4. Abel obeyed God and was accepted while Cain disobeyed God and was rejected. Cain wanted to do as he pleased and be accepted by God. Sorry that's not the way it works. Instead of repenting and doing what God said do, he killed Abel. Don't know what he thought he would accomplish by killing Abel but it just made matters worse.
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