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Kingdom Expansion   What Was Wrong with Cain's Offering?  This
question comes from Genesis 4.3-7 where Cain, the firstborn of
Eve and Adam, takes an offering of his crops to the Lord and
Abel took a first-born lamb. God accepted Abel's offering, but
not Cain's. In the course of the story Cain becomes angry and
was apparently saddened, but God offers no explanation of why
the offering wasn't accepted. Instead God says to Cain, "Why are
you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well,
will you not be accepted?" (Genesis 4.6-7). In the end, Cain's
anger and jealousy gets the best of him and he murders his
brother Abel.  So, why was Cain's offering not acceptable?  We
turn to both the Old and the New Testaments to find our answer.
Cain and his deed is mentioned three other times in the Bible,
outside of the Genesis story. The writer of Hebrews attributes
Cain's lack of faith as the reason for God's rejection of the
offering (11.4). John