Tucked above depictions of Adam and Eve, the haunting images of Cain and Abel in the Ghent Altarpiece underscore the wages of ...

Did God say not to eat of any of the trees?” When the woman correctly states what God commanded, the devil then proceeds to ...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s first week as President, the Democrats opposing him are reported to be stunned, paralyzed, and ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, tries to elicit ...

Biblically, a catastrophe can be seen as a consequence of a mockery. In 2025 and 2023, two mockeries and two catastrophes took place existentially; and a third ...

Music has always been a powerful medium for conveying messages, emotions, and stories. Throughout history, many musicians ...

Instead, Cain murders his brother, Abel. Thus we have the failure of a first-born son who is supposed to have a priestly primacy in the family after the death of his father. (cf. Genesis 4:3-8 ...

Adam and Eve are procreators, and it is Eve who acknowledges that their first son, Cain, is God’s gift—"I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord." (Genesis 4:1) Likewise, Eve saw the hand of God ...

Such spirits are sent to earth through the lineage of Cain, the mark put upon him for his rebellion against God and his murder of Abel being a black skin (Moses 5:16–41; 7:8, 12, 22).

They would have told him the story of Cain his uncle and how he killed his other uncle Abel and how the earth cried out. The Psalms speak of children as blessings and the Genesis text reads in 5: 9 ...