Works can NEVER earn salvation

Abel "did" and was accepted.

Cain "did not" and was not accepted.

Clearly it is you who is spinning.

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. Hebrews 11:4

It was the offering that God spoke well of, not Abel's faith. He was commended as righteous when God spoke well of his offering.

Man, you just don't get it.

Yes, we are blessed in that way.

But what could Cain have done before the Cross, to be saved just like Abel was? Everyone can quote that Hebrews 11 passage about Abel but I am asking a simple question, what did Genesis 4:6-7 say?

Cain could have had faith in God. And by this faith, be saved like abel. And through this faith, also do like God asked. Instead of trying to pervert Gods grace and offer human good.

If you notice heb 11. Abel had FAITH, Cain did NOT.

How do we as hmans know who had faith?

Abel did what God asked, Abel rebelled and did his own thing.

God also required Abel to show his faith by offering the correct sacrifice. He told Cain to follow what Abel did, and promised that he will accept Cain if he did so, as stated in Genesis 4:7

Christ did away with the need for us to make sacrifice, EXCEPT for the sacrifice of our heart. Obviously, by it's very nature, it has to be a Spiritual sacrifice.

You have raised a good point At that time, faith must be demonstrated by the correct work, which involves offering an animal sacrifice.

God was gracious enough to give Cain a second chance to offer the right sacrifice. Some interpretation of verse 7 says that God even provided the correct sin offering for him, waiting outside his door. He just need to take it and do the right thing by sacrificing that offering.

But alas Cain would not obey and choose to murder his brother instead. It reminds me of non believers nowadays where they just need to believe in the finished work and cease from their works, but many prefer to work their way to God.

1 John 4:20
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

We have to answer these question to know what is the fruit of faith

1. Can a man have faith in God but not love God

2. Can a man love God but not love fellow man

3. Can a man have faith but do not have love

1. I do not think so. If a man have faith in God he must love god, if a man hate God he he do not have faith in God

2. No bible say if a man say love God but not love other he is liar

3. No if a man have faith he must have love or he is liar.

Salvation is by faith alone, but faith that save bear fruit of love, not fruit of hatred. Jesus in a man of faith manifest Himself in love the enemy.

A man of faith will go to the direction into act like Jesus/Christ like

The whole point of James was to contrast “real” faith with pretend faith. He said nothing different, only worded it differently.

There is no pretend or spurious faith.

Faith is faith
Just like belief is belief.

I agree, but---

Faith in Jesus, or in self--

Belief in what Jesus did, or in what self is doing--

The difference is eternal life, and eternal death.

Faith must be placed 100% in Jesus for salvation or else we are 100% lost. Sadly, there are many "nominal" Christians who also place faith in self/what self is doing and NOT IN CHRIST ALONE.

There is no pretend or spurious faith.

Faith is faith
Just like belief is belief.

Don't understand "nominal Christians".
Can a person truly be saved if not 100% faith in Jesus and 0% in self?

God also required Abel to show his faith by offering the correct sacrifice. He told Cain to follow what Abel did, and promised that he will accept Cain if he did so, as stated in Genesis 4: 7 [\quote]

God requires perfection

Good luck with that

Why expect if He is doing everything including selecting people to be saved?

In such forums, if people refuse to read and learn for themselves, you cannot make them do so.

Abel’s offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, but his offering did not make him become a righteous man. It was by or "out of" faith that Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, but that was not the point/moment of becoming righteous. Through his sacrifice, he was shown to be righteous (not accounted as righteous) just as Abraham offered up Isaac on the altar in Genesis 22 and was shown to be righteous (James 2:21) but he was accounted as righteous many years before that based on his faith and not his works. (Genesis 15:5-6; Romans 4:2-3)

The blind man was cured of blindness after he washed in the Pool of Siloam. He was not saved by faith + the merits of washing in the Pool of Siloam. Can you not truly see this? What I see is you continuing to peddle salvation by faith + works.

Cain was not told to have faith but to do in order to be accepted.

The fruit does NOT produce the tree. The fruit IDENTIFIES the tree. Works Salvationists simply can't wrap their heads around this very simple concept.

Luke 6:43-45 New King James Version (NKJV)
A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil [a]treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.