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why not? does He change someone's heart and they change it back? is His will thwarted by a man's?

i am not sure about 'before' - - wouldn't that be tantamount to saving me?

it's really about Pelagianism. do we have any part in saving ourselves or does God alone save us, in every aspect?

not sure why you think it's rational to believe that forgiving sin means endorsing sin. Matthew 6:15 if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

a male child is circumcised, if an 8th day falls on a 7

then they were a typology - a shadow, not the substance :)

not if what they were doing was commemorating salvation by mercy ;) i think they had done this for dozens of years, and that Cain had always accepted a sheep from Abel before that day. that Abel, the family shepherd, had been providing a lamb for each of them. that Cain did not wish to be...

don't you at least agree though, that what is recorded vs. what is not recorded in scripture, is by God's design? for His purpose?

i think he brought figs

whether God indeed turns the hearts of men where He wills like water ((as scripture says)) or not, the account of Cain and Abel would not be recorded in Genesis if it did not testify of Christ. all their lives are undocumented except for this. why? because the Bible isn't about them. it's about...

it is the intention of God, not the intention of mankind, that matters. Psalms 94:11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they [are] futile.

because we specifically know they did not understand the things they prophesied, we know the motives of the humans in recording the scriptures are immaterial - it is what God intends that matters, and the scriptures themselves say that the scriptures are the testimony of Christ - of God pitching...

God does not respond to Cain that he should 'have a better internal intention' but that he should 'do' what is right.

the point is that blood was shed in his offering, not that the blood itself was offered - and that Cain's gift was correspondingly bloodless. these events are related to us immediately after we are told about great sin involving the fruit of the ground and great mercy involving the shedding of...

7 verses previous to this we have God shedding blood and making garments to cover Adam and Eve: the first sacrifice in all of scripture. it is not unrelated that 'in the process of time' - indicating a set period - Abel sheds blood and offers parts of those things which God had likewise...

the testimony of the person and the work of Christ is always the main intent of all scripture. the salvation that has been revealed is about what - Who - we believe, not about we do. John 5:39 Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which...

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Yes, the law of Christ is greater than the law of the marriage covenant with Israel :)

i will mention again, in Genesis 4 a principle of firstfruits is present. yes. i argued it's prevalence with my pastor, and lost. the shedding of the blood of The Lamb is the core and focus of all of scripture: all scripture testifies of the person and work of Christ. that is the very purpose...

you missed the part, shedding of blood. the shedding of the blood of an innocent nephesh chayya. this is what saves us, this is how we are covered, this is the only way we can present ourselves before God and be accepted, this is The Way, from the beginning, the spirit of prophecy. perhaps...