What did God say to Cain?

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."
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What was God's response to Cain?

God challenges Cain's answer and tells him that Abel's blood is calling to God from the ground. God says as his punishment that the ground will resist Cain's tilling; it will not yield its produce to Cain. Further, Cain is to become a ceaseless wanderer.
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How did God punish Cain?

The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain by condemning him to a life of wandering. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod (נוֹד, 'wandering'), where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch.
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Why does God reject Cain's offering?

Cain's premature offering from fruit trees symbolizes his rejection of God's ownership of the earth and emphasizes the perception of him as a greedy individual.
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What is the main lesson of the Cain and Abel story?

While filled with tragedy, the story of Cain and Abel teaches us a valuable lesson about living with sincerity. Through their example, we learn how not just our actions, but our attitudes matter to God – and how devastating sin's consequences can be.
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Who obeyed God?

Moses obeyed God's commandments, and I can too! Memorize Exodus 19:5.
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What is the burden of the mark of Cain?

The Mark of Cain was said to be placed on Cain by God so "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold, and the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him." (Genesis 4-14).
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Why did God send the flood?

The flood wasn't an act of wanton destruction by a capricious God. God was acting to restore the goodness of his creation. God preserves one family through the flood and elevates Noah as a new Adam, placed once again in a garden on a high mountain paradise with the commission to be fruitful and multiply.
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Why was the Lord mad at Cain?

Satan knew Cain's offering would not be accepted, and he was pleased that he had led someone to do wrong. Cain was angry because his offering was not accepted, but the Lord still loved him. The Lord told Cain that if he would make the right kind of offering, He would accept it.
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How did Cain feel?

So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell” (Genesis 4, 5). The New Dutch Bible translation gives Cain's reaction to this unexpected and random rejection as one of fury and anger: “Cain then became furious and his countenance darkened”. His anger appears to be a sign of envy.
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Did Eve go heaven?

But how can they be saved to heaven if they disobeyed God? With this line of reasoning, though, every believer would be excluded from passing through heaven's gate. Adam and Eve were sinners, as are each one of us. If Adam and Eve are excluded from heaven, so are every one of us.
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Who married their sister in the Bible?

Isaac and Rebekah's second son Jacob married his cousins Leah and Rachel, who were both sisters and daughters of his mother's brother Laban.
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Who is the wife of Cain?

According to various Abrahamic traditions, Awan (also Avan or Aven, from Hebrew אָוֶן aven "vice", "iniquity", "potency") was the wife and sister of Cain and the daughter of Adam and Eve. In the Book of Jubilees she is called Awan; however, in other Abrahamic texts (Cave of Treasures) she is called Qelima.
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Why did God send the 10 plagues?

Because Pharaoh refused to set the Israelites free, God decided to punish him, sending ten plagues on to Egypt.
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Why is Noah chosen by God?

In the story of the Deluge (Genesis 6:11–9:19), he is represented as the patriarch who, because of his blameless piety, was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the Flood. A righteous man, Noah “found favour in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8).
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Why did God destroy the Tower of Babel?

He wrote that he was told when the light of the sun first appeared upon the land, giants appeared and set off in search of the sun. Not finding it, they built a tower to reach the sky. An angered God of the Heavens called upon the inhabitants of the sky, who destroyed the tower and scattered its inhabitants.
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What does the Bible say about Cain?

But the LORD said to him, "Not so ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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What does the Mark of Cain do to Simon?

Weeks after, Simon was attacked by men under the orders of the Greater Demon Lilith. His mark burned white, and the assailant was struck down by a heavenly force that reduced the man to a pile of salt while leaving Simon completely unharmed.
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Is Kane immortal?

Within the Brotherhood, Kane is viewed as a prophet and considered an immortal, as he has lived through over one hundred years without aging.
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What does God promise if we obey him?

God has made incredible promises and has linked them to our obedience, it's the “if,” and “then,” promises of the Bible. If we obey what He says, then He promises that He'll save us, watch over us, take care of us, and give to us our needs.
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How old is the Bible?

The first Biblical stories were passed down orally and only written down later by various authors. Most Biblical scholars believe the Book of Genesis was the first book to be written down. This would have happened around 1450 BC to 1400 BC. So perhaps about 3400 years or so ago.
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Who was the first person to go to heaven alive?

Catholicism. Sacred Scripture teaches that Enoch and Elijah were assumed into heaven while still alive and not experiencing physical death.
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