Cain Was Not Cursed By GodUnity Consciousness #451

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Abel Seems To Be The One Who Was Cursed

Abel was the second born son of Adam & Eve. Abel was born to work with animals. Abel brought God an animal offering because that's what he had. God loved it. God loved the animal offering so much, God didn't even care for the plants, fruits and vegetables from Cain. Cain and Abel had a conversation. Abel ends up dead with no descendants. See Genesis 4

Cain Was Not Cursed By God

Cain was the firstborn son of Adam & Eve. Cain was born to work with plants. Cain brought an offering of plants, fruit and vegetables because that's what he had. God didn't like it. God chose to choose one offering over the other rather than choosing both. It's understandable that if you offer God the best you've got and what you were born to do and God rejects it, you'd be upset. Cain took it personally because God made it seem personal.

God pretends not to know what's wrong with Cain and then tells Cain, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?”
God says this to Cain even though God just rejected Cain for doing well.
Cain is so confused, since he can't make any sense of it by talking to God, Cain talks to his younger brother, Abel. Evidently not much was resolved of the conflict within Cain so Cain's lets out his frustrations personally by killing his brother because of his misunderstanding why God like's the second born son better than the first born and the animal better than the plant. Somehow Cain concludes it must be about me and Abel so Cain removes what he considers the problem between him and God.

After his anger is satisfied, Cain knows he has done wrong because Cain lies. God asks Cain questions the way God asked Adam & Eve questions in the Garden. God asks questions God already knows the answer to. This is evident because after Cain tells a lie, God then says, “the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.”

God said the earth has cursed Cain. Now remember Cain was a farmer and was already dealing with the curse on the ground that God gave to Adam and his descendants. So Cain was the firstborn son who was born to work in an area that was already cursed – the ground. No wonder his offering was disrespected by God. God could have simply explained this to Cain but chose not to.

Instead God chooses to spend more time explaining the curse of the earth, than avoiding the need for the curse: “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.” Now Cain, being a farmer, whose destiny was tied to the land said this is too much for me to bear to be cursed and estranged from the very thing I was born to do. Cain said that because he would be a curse on the land, people would kill him because who wants a person who is cursed by the land around when they need to depend on the land?

Now remember, Cain's punishment for killing Abel is to be cursed by the land, but since Cain says, people are going to kill me for being a curse to the land and there's no where I can go, God then decides to protect Cain from part of the side effects of the curse – being killed. God says whoever kills Cain I will punish them sevenfold.

“The Lord set a mark upon Cain” A mark.

Nowhere does it say anything about the mark. Anyone who tries to tell you what the mark is, is making it up.
Nevertheless, whatever the mark is, it's a good mark because that mark protects Cain's life.
Cain leaves Eden and goes and gets married and has several sons and lots of children. He has descendants.
Cain built a city and named it after his first son, Enoch.
This doesn't sound like a curse especially compared to what Abel got.

False Interpretations Added To Cain's Curse That Isn't A Curse

Hebrews 11:4 says, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts:”
This has been explained. Both Abel and Cain's sacrifices were by faith. They did their jobs and brought God an offering of their first fruits which is the righteous thing to do.

1 John 3:12 says, “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.”

This has been explained. Yes Cain was wicked for killing his brother, but of all people, he was incited by God for doing exactly what he was supposed to do to please God and was made to feel worthless.

One Last Reason Cain Was Not Cursed

If Cain was cursed, you would think no one else would bear his name or if they did, they would not prosper. Yet, one of the cities of the children of Judah is called Cain. Is this a city Cain established or one of his descendants or was Cain's name taken by someone not of Cain's lineage? See Joshua 15:57.

What Some Might Say

”God requires a blood sacrifice for forgiveness of sin. A gift of bloodless plants and vegetables cannot cover sin. Abel's sacrifice showed faith in God's word and Cain's did not.”

Where is the blood sacrifice for Adam and Eve's sin? What were the sins Cain and Abel were trying to atone for? The story of Cain & Abel says they were making an “offering” not a “sacrifice” as it was later called in Hebrews.