Genesis, Chapters 4, 6-9

          I could certainly see how Cain would feel the way he did—he made an offering to God, just the same as Abel did, but it was completely disregarded and put to the side and he wasn’t given any reason why. God even asks him why he is angry, like he has no idea. I’m not surprised Cain was as upset as he was. Especially since they were brothers; siblings are kind of more predisposed to be jealous of each other, so God’s disregard for Cain’s offering made him that much more angry. Getting no reason why his offering wasn’t liked would have just added fuel to that fire, would have made him want to know what he had done wrong to disappoint God, which was all he was trying to do. Justice will always be unfair for someone, because everyone wants to be in the right and have their actions be validated. When Cain says to God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”, he’s just showing more of his anger at the fact that his brother was chosen over him. But at the same time, God reminds him a little that he still has a responsibility for his brother no matter what, especially since he works with the soil and the ground.

            It’s a bit extreme that God was so ridiculously unhappy with what man was doing on earth that he decided to wipe out absolutely everything that lived to fix the problem. Maybe it would be a little easier to start over with everything to get rid of all the bad, but that doesn’t let anyone learn any lessons from their wrongdoing and attempt to try again and be better…because everyone is dead. In these chapters God is more angry and wanting the people to listen to him, but it’s not necessarily working as well as it had been in the past, so he just decides to get rid of everyone because everything is corrupted.