“You assume that Cain challenged Abel to a fight...”
Do I, now? How did I do that? You are assuming facts not in evidence.
“The Bible says that Cain rose up and slew his brother. Hard to stop a murder if you have no idea it’s coming.”
How do you know Abel had no idea it was coming? The Bible just says that they were in the field, and Cain slew Abel,
apparently out of jealousy.
Do you just make shit up for kicks; or is it a habitual foible that you can’t break?
In any event, my original comment was that “Might makes right” went out the window with that murder, because God punished Cain by putting a curse on him and banishing him. If “might makes right,” then God would not have punished Cain. But, God DID punish Cain, because what Cain did to Abel was NOT right.
**Do you just make shit up for kicks; or is it a habitual foible that you can’t break?**
Classy! (No, I won’t go to the mods. I’m probably thicker skinned than you.)
My point is you APPEARED to assume that Abel was weaker than Cain, in your comparison to the Uke-Rus tragedy. There is no scripture that points to Abel being weaker than Cain. And there is no scripture that shows they locked horns. The Bible says that Cain rose up and slew his brother.
There had been no murders yet. I believe Abel had no reason to expect something that had never happened. And being jealous about who had presented the better offering certainly wouldn’t appear to be anything close to the stunt Jacob and Rebekah pulled on Esau. I don’t blame Esau for being angry about how that turned out.
Stay classy.