Tag: Genesis 4:1-16

• Reflecting on Genesis 4 1-16

  

  What thoughts and feelings do we have as we read the story of the first murder? Do we grieve for Abel? Find ourselves empathizing, at least a little, with Cain? Or for Adam and Eve, who lose both of their children in a single day? Or do we have thoughts about God’s role in this […]

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  December 31, 2021

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, Cain and Abel, Genesis 4:1-16, God, humanity, reader response perspective, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• Studying Genesis 4 1-16

  

  We will be ringing in the new year with anger, violence, sin, and consequences, because we are studying Genesis 4:1-16, the story of Cain and Abel, for Sunday, January 2. In the context of our lessons this quarter on “justice, law, and history,” we seem to be meant to consider how both divine justice and […]

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  December 29, 2021

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible study, Genesis 4:1-16, reading the Bible, sin and death, violence