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Religion, Anger & Murder

Do you think Adam and Eve ever told their sons about the “good old days in the garden”? According to the account in Genesis there were only four people alive at that time – Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. So, what did they talk about? It doesn’t seem like Adam and Eve would have had a large variety of prior experiences to draw upon, even if they did live hundreds of years back then. By the way, how large would their vocabularies have been anyway?

I wonder if Adam and Eve ever had any arguments or quarrels after leaving the garden.  Do you think the boys ever heard dad say to their mom, “If you just hadn’t eaten that fruit!” Or did their mom say, “Why did you just stand there and keep your mouth shut! Were you afraid of a snake?” Surely, after living in the Garden of God, where all of their needs were met without having to work, those days would weigh heavily upon their minds.

Something, however, would happen that would cause their eldest son to murder his younger brother – immediate after the first recorded act of religious ritual in the Bible?

Read the complete article at --
http://www.biblicalheritage.org/DTB/1011_DTB_Religion_Anger_Murder.pdf

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