Why did God order a sevenfold punishment for anyone who kills Cain

[WilliamBo]

''If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold'' And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.''

-Genesis 4:15


I feel like Cain was the seed of the serpent, or just the father of evil people in general. But why would God protect Cain like that/ What do you think/

 

[Pilgrim]

Cain must have been marked as being a wild and ferocious man whom others avoided in fear and horror.

Cain's protection (of his life) can be seen as an act of divine deferment in order to help spread Adam's seed. There must then have been a small number of living people.

 

[Cassidy Bennett]

Cain killed Abel bc he was jealous and believed God loved him more. This is a typical lie people feel when they think they are not loved.

God punished him by banishing him from his land and family. Technically an eye for an eye would have been death, but God showed his mercy to him. It would be no different than having a child do something hanous, but still loving them bc they are yours. In a sense he was showing Cain that he never loved Abel more, even if the destruction was done. He was also giving Cain a chance to repent.

 

[WilliamBo]

Cain must have been marked as being a wild and ferocious man whom others avoided in fear and horror.

Cain's protection (of his life) can be seen as an act of divine deferment in order to help spread Adam's seed. There must then have been a small number of living people.

How was Adam's seed protected? God said if anyone hurt's Cain they will be punished sevenfold, not if anyone hurts Adam or his seed... you would think God would put a mark on the other Adams descendants to protect them, not Cain

 

[WilliamBo]

Cain killed Abel bc he was jealous and believed God loved him more. This is a typical lie people feel when they think they are not loved.

God punished him by banishing him from his land and family. Technically an eye for an eye would have been death, but God showed his mercy to him. It would be no different than having a child do something hanous, but still loving them bc they are yours. In a sense he was showing Cain that he never loved Abel more, even if the destruction was done. He was also giving Cain a chance to repent.

That's an interesting way of looking at it. My thought was that God's plan was to have evil in this world to begin with, so he was preserving Cain for that purpose, to keep the seeds of the serpent alive for his grand, glorious purpose

 

[Cassidy Bennett]

How was Adam's seed protected? God said if anyone hurt's Cain they will be punished sevenfold, not if anyone hurts Adam or his seed... you would think God would put a mark on the other Adams descendants to protect them, not Cain

God was protecting Cain from the Fallen Angels. Seth was protected without a mark bc he was not around fallen angels, but was with his family including the presence of God.

 

[Cassidy Bennett]

That's an interesting way of looking at it. My thought was that God's plan was to have evil in this world to begin with, so he was preserving Cain for that purpose, to keep the seeds of the serpent alive for his grand, glorious purpose

I think it's like the weeds and the wheat. There may have been saved individuals from Cain's bloodline.
Although we assume his bloodline died in the flood. May not be that simple.... There could have been saved people from his line even to this day.

 

[WilliamBo]

God was protecting Cain from the Fallen Angels. Seth was protected without a mark bc he was not around fallen angels, but was with his family including the presence of God.

How do you know that God was protecting Cain from fallen angels/ And where does it say that Seth was protected, and his family was in the presence of God/

 

[Tree of Life]

''If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold'' And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.''

-Genesis 4:15


I feel like Cain was the seed of the serpent, or just the father of evil people in general. But why would God protect Cain like that/ What do you think/

God sought to stop the cycle of vengeance. If anyone would avenge Abel's death it would be the Lord himself.

 

[com7fy8]

In order to kill Cain, someone could become of a very bad and dirty spirit of being unloving and unforgiving and possibly self-righteously condemning.

So, God could have been protecting people from starting to become that way.

 

[Cassidy Bennett]

How do you know that God was protecting Cain from fallen angels/ And where does it say that Seth was protected, and his family was in the presence of God/

It doesn't specifically say it. I'm going off these verses.

Genesis 4:13
13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the land and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Overall you have this story of the boys giving offerings and talking with the Lord. Cain gets asked questions like a father would ask their child. You have this sense that they are close. They would have been told stories from their parents about the garden of Eden and such. Cain is deeply upset he will be hidden from God's presence... granted it's more for a selfish reason.

Genesis 6
1When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

The sons of God are fallen angels. Perhaps they were not roaming earth right away but it makes more sense that they were.

 

[Mark51]

It may be that God wanted the vengeance to be righteously fulfilled by him alone. For others to seek vengeance and do so may have made them blood guilty also. Consider the example of David. He would not killed King Saul because Saul was anointed by God. (1 Samuel 26:9, 10) Both were eventually punished. Saul by the Philistines and Cain's "blood line" by the Flood.

 

[pescador]

The answer to the OP is that God is not a racist and abhors violence.