Thomas Jefferson High School Case: Changes to the admissions policy at this top-tier Virginia school caused Asian American ...

Consider the challenge Cain and Abel gave Adam and Eve. Then the terrible predicament Abraham was put in as a father, when ...

We see echoes of this civilizational transformation in ancient traditions, such as the the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible, where Abel offers animal sacrifice and Cain offers fruit—an allegory of ...

So many of the sacrifice stories in scripture end up in violence or near violence, starting with the first known sacrifices in human history, those of Cain and Abel. Cain brings a second-rate ...

For reasons that remain unclear (although generations of rabbis tried vainly to identify them) God had accepted Abel’s sacrifice and rejected his. Along with Cain’s angry and disobedient ...

but God rejected that of Cain and accepted Abel’s sacrifice because “by faith (Abel)offered to God a more excellent sacrifice. In spite of the corruption, defilement and contradiction of ...

Abel was an active innovator and creator ... This explanation explains why Cain’s sacrifice was rejected, but it does not necessarily reflect negatively on Cain’s personality.

In the book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are brothers and are the sons of Adam and Eve. Abel is a shepherd, while Cain is a farmer. Each offers a sacrifice to God: Abel presents the best of his flock, ...

First, Abel merely follows Cain’s example in making a sacrifice. There is no suggestion that his offering is superior to his brother’s. Second, while Cain has followed in his father’s career ...