The Way of Cain
commenting on Romans 1:22-23, Barnhouse writes: When man departed from God, there was an immediate way opened back into the presence of God, a way that was guarded by cherubim sent from Heaven with a flaming sword to keep that way open for man. It was the way of the altar, the way of the blood: a picture of the cross of Jesus Christ. It was not long before Cain took the path of opposition. He did not want to submit himself to God and recognize his own sinfulness. He killed his brother Abel, who was obeying God by faith in bringing the sin-offering of the lamb. That murder was a great picture of human brotherhood. It showed what the brotherhood of man really is: one man killing another who was from the same father and out of the same womb. Do not prate about the brotherhood of man. God has condemned all possibility of attaining any solution of the human problem apart from Himself. Can we proje...