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>but their blood covers mans sin because of their innocence.
The blood of animals doesn't take it away however. The point of Able and Cain is to foretell of a coming dichotomy of 2 types of people that will interact with God. Not only are they real people. It's also talking about believers vs religion. Able simply trusts what God says he's going to do, and offers up the first and finest lamb of his flock, which is a direct allegory for Christ in the old testament, Abel's was accepted, Cain however, trusting in the work he does to mitigate the curse of entropy, farming in his field, uses a bloodless sacrifice, trusting in the work he's done rather than trusting God.
Because of the subtle difference between a believer, in that you can only tell what someone believes if they confess openly to MAN what they believe, Cain gets pissed at Abel, because he cannot see that God doesn't show favoritism, Abel has done something on the inside, (NOT OUTSIDE) that God is specifically looking for, faith.
The gospel is infact preached all throughout the old testament, God giving Abraham his word is infact a guarantee of salvation. Abraham's time before Christ is irrelevant because it's inevitable that God will not fail, meaning anyone who simply trusted God, even though they had no living sacrifice perfect enough to mitigate sin relatively at the time, they were forgiven without consideration to temporal shit.
Now, the book doesn't show a third type of person, meaning atheism is a categorical fallacy to the story, God will see an atheist no differently than Cain in this context, because the atheist is infact trusting themselves over God. Cain openly interacted with God and yet still didn't believe. No different from Judas.
Cain killing Abel, is a snapshot of the behavior you will encounter where religion with apostates will kill believers for simply trusting in the blood of christ to save them, rather than working through law.
