Catholics Acquit Cain

CATHOLICS ACQUIT CAIN

We have here from the REUTERS DISPATCH a report from Venice, Italy, where we read, “Cain, history’s first recorded killer, was found innocent of premeditated murder yesterday at a mock trial by Biblical scholars, historians, magistrates, and criminologists. The nine member, all CATHOLIC Jury voted five to four in favor of Cain. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VERDICT said that Cain had acted out of inevitable human emotion dictated by other reasons of a social nature.”

This shows you the gap between Catholic theology and the Bible. In the Book of GENESIS, Cain killed his brother Abel because he was jealous of Abel’s offering, and in 1 JOHN you are told that Cain killed Abel because his brother’s work was righteous and his was evil. It is interesting to note that we have used Cain and Abel (see the BIBLE BELIEVER’S COMMENTARY ON GENESIS) for more than thirty years as an illustration of salvation by grace with BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY compared to sacramental salvation IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. We would expect them to justify Cain. “HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING” (John 8).