Some of you may already know where I am going with this but here it is anyway. Why would God spare Cain after killing his brother Abel?
Why does GOD spare anyone for their sin? Is murder worse than lying? the disvalue of sin in GOD's eyes is that
sin has an ultimate disvalue; the least sin condemns the non-elect and puts Christ on the cross for the sinful elect.
Matt 13:28 ... So the servants asked him, ‘- Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ [bring down judgement on them]
29 ‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.…[these wheat are sinful elect or they are not liable to the judgement. Therefore to ensure their safety from the judgement, the judgement is postponed.]
30 Let both grow together until the harvest. Why must they 'grow' together? Why not elect sinners on earth and non-elect sinners on Pluto? Well, the elect sinners come to realize the absolute necessity for the condemnation of every non-elect, man, woman and child, to hell by living with the suffering their sin causes. Even just one person in hell proves he cannot repent because if he could, GOD is love and love is patient and HE would wait for a billion years for this person to see his errors and repent if it was possible. Merely suggesting a place like hell proves the possibility that some people cannot repent; they are condmened already,
Jn 3:18.
And what is the harvest? The harvest is the time when the wheat matures. And the only maturity that saves someone from the judgment is a mature holiness, a complete dedication to GOD's plan to banish the non-elect to the outer darkness for the rest of eternity. Anything short of that and we must live with sin and suffering and death until the last sinful elect repents of their idolatry of the people of the evil one (but he really is a good person at heart; or, such all little darling baby) and becomes willing to enter the Promised Land by the destruction of every Amorite, man, women and child as GOD orders,
Gen 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. .... full enough for who? GOD hates them and had already condemned them so it was the Israelites (the Church) who had to learn that their iniquity was indeed full and the time of judgement established.
It is the sins of the elect Church that forces GOD to postpone the judgement and have HIS elect live with Cain, the false Christian who fills our churches.
And who did Cain have children with if his mother and father were the first woman and man?I am not terrible bright when it comes to the Bible genealogy.
Because they are mentioned without any other child being mentioned it is assumed they are the only children and the first children. BUT that is not proven in the text...Genesis 4 is about Cain and Abel, not anyone else, so no one else is mentioned until their story is over.
But if Adam and Eve had a child each year and these children started to have their own children at age 15 or so, in a very short time, 125 years, (out of a 900 year lifespan that is) the exponential increase would be huge with 125 years being between 9 and 10 generations, on the order of between 20 billion and 289 billion people in this model.
So, if Cain and Abel were born during Adam and Eve's 100 year on earth, it might have had a very large population indeed by that time.
Also it is not proven by the text that these two were just kids when the fight happened. All the cutesy little pictures in your children's bible may be bogus as, well, completely bogus. Figments of the imagination and orthodox bias.
This was not just a kid's mistake and childish anger; it was religious war.
Cain was trying to supplant the religion of the coats of skins for righteousness instituted by GOD for Adam and Eve with his first fruits fertility / weather cult of the Ba'als and Asherah (groves).
If they were 25 years old themselves by the time this religious war came to a head, how many more people were populating the earth, given exponential growth?