Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

The curse following also gets interesting as you follow it through Cain and AbelCain and Able shows something different. There are often sons compared through the prophets.Cain and Able"When the LORD accepted Abel's offering but not Cain's the latter became angry. God warned Cain about potential sin. But even so, Cain murdered Abel." (Gen. 4:4-9) And God cursed Cain ...Remember when I said before God we will both stand? One will stand in their own hard hard work trying to please God and the other will stand in God's merit. God favored the devotion of Able over Cain's and it drove Cain to murder Able. But why wouldn't God favor hard labor to please Him? Because the fruits of flesh is cursed. Even the first fruits of cursed flesh can't please God. Because we are born from the cursed ground our 1st fruits regarding anything we do cannot please God!Gen 3 "17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life."18 Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you And you will eat the plants of the field 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground,Because from it you were taken;For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”"22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life."Cain worked harder on his sacrifice, and he sacrificed more because his sacrafice was out of his first fruits of hard hard labor. Cain is working through the curse."23 therefore the LORD God sent him (Adam) out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken." (To cultivate the ground he was taken from that now God cursed) And that would be with thorns and thistles and sweat. The ground he came from will forever fight him, and he will forever fight the ground. So when Cain offered from the ground, he was offering from that which is cursed, as man is dust, dust from ground, groud is cursed.Yet Able's sacrafice from the 1st fruits of his flock pleased God.The flock was a provision by God. He provided the creatures, and He multiplied them. So Able just gave back to God what was given. Able simply cared and nurtured them. Yet his sacrafice pleased God over the fruits of hard labor. Why? Because Able's was from the provision of God, and from simply Able's love of care for the flock and love for God.Cain was working by brute force. Working the cursed ground, toiling against the curse day in and day out working hard against that which is cursed. Cain's sacrafice was his work, his hard work! Abel's sacrafice was from his love and not from hard work at all!