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God In The Story Of Cain And Able In Genesis

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For my second response paper I would like to revisit the claim that I made in my first response, god is maturing and evolving as he to deals with certain situations. As god dealt with the Cain in the story of Cain and Able in Genesis chapter 4, a since of an inexperienced God is portrayed. He plays favorites and in doing so Able is slayed by his brother and thus Cain is condemned but this is a direct reaction to God playing favorites. With this story I believe God starts to mature and learn from his “mistakes”. Second looking back at Exodus chapter 33, God is made to seem to be regretting the fact that the Israelites are his chosen people. They way he uses his words displays an inexperience in interaction with his creation, calling them stiff necked and then claiming that he would not travel with them least he destroy them. There are many different ways to handle this situation and I believe that in this case God made a mistake by using the wrong words when talking with his chosen people. …show more content…

Here we have yet another time how God handles and reacts to being questioned. The first time we see God questioned was by Abraham when God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Here God handles himself much differently after the rabbi’s refuse to believe that what rabbi Eliezer claims is true. In the story God is quoted as to say, “He laughed [with joy] exclaiming, My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.” (Babylonia Talmud) What happens next is much different than what happened to Abraham when he questioned God about destroying the two sin filled

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