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You can learn answers to life’s greatest questions through FREE informative Bible guides.  CLICK LINK FOR YOUR FREE GUIDES.  Read Genesis 4:3-7 . What do their two different sacrifices symbolize? The sacrifices symbolize the difference between attempting to work one's way to heaven represented by Cain’s offering and the realization that salvation is by grace alone, made available to us only through the merits of a blood sacrifice which is the symbolism of Abel’s offering.   Abel’s offering pointed toward eventual salvation through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. There was a difference in the offerings they brought: Abel’s was a more excellent sacrifice than Cain’s.   “…the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:   But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect…” (Genesis 4:4-5).    Cain’s offering was only a sacrifice of acknowledgment that God was the creator.   But, Abel brought a sacrifice of atonement, for his ...

Death has probably been on the mind of every human being since the time when Cain killed his brother Able. Adam and Eve were living under the first lie that Satan told them, that “...“You will not surely die”...”. In the very beginning God told Adam and Eve a very basic truth. That truth is the fact that man is not immortal. Man can die!   And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2: 16-17) But Satan told Eve a different story . Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’? And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You...