Cain and Abel 2

-God called him on it. Again, God interacted with Cain. Do we have evidence that God interacted with Cain and Abel before this? Not clear. Yet somehow Cain knew that God accepted Abel's offering but not his.

-It appears that Abel was the one who did the right thing but God seems to be spending most of his time interacting with Cain. We have God loving two children differently, not more or less, just different.

-"If you do what is right..." We assume Cain knew what was right. Why? because God is just? Because Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Not clear.

-God asks, "Where's your brother?" Cain feigns ignorance. We assume both Cain and God knew where Abel was. Abel's blood was already crying out to God.

-"[How would I know!] Am I my brother's keeper?" Attitude!

Things keep getting worse, here. Cain managed to earn his own curse. I'm not saying that God cursed him, I'm saying that Cain's actions left him "under" a curse.

To Cain, God says,
"What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."

Adam and Eve lost two sons that day - one trying to do the right thing and one chosing to do the wrong thing.