Why Does God Allow for Cain to Murder His Brother Instead of Preventing It?

03/24/21 • 14 min

Not only does God meet Adam and Eve with grace and redemption after their rebellion, He allows them to live. With the infection of sin growing will it spread? How quickly and will the choices of others be similar. Ch. 4 and 5 follow the unfolding disaster, begging the question, of why the God of order would allow this rebellion to grow.

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By the third chapter in Genesis the whole “good” creation falls apart after mankind’s choice to rebel. Looking into God’s response tells us a lot about Him.

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Why does God allow things to get so out of hand?

And again, the answer must go back to the foundational issues. If humans were designed to be corruptible, sin must be a possibility. If sin is a possibility, oppression will exist, eventually on a large scale. If God were to wipe out the possibility of oppressive tyrants, he would have to wipe out sin; and to wipe out sin, he would have to eliminate corruptibility. If God were to eliminate corruptibility, we would be nothing but robots. That has not been his design.

God’s procedure throughout these early chapters is generally not to eliminate the problem totally, but to isolate, limit, or restrict it in some way.