Upon This Rock (9): Robbing Christ of His Honor (1)
Don Doezema examines the nature of Cain's sin in Genesis 4, exploring whether his rejection of the bloody sacrifice constituted merely disobedience to divine prescription or also involved a conscious despising of Christ as prefigured in the sacrificial type. The article investigates how much comprehension of Christ the Old Testament faithful possessed regarding typological worship, engaging with John Calvin's assessment of Jewish worship and earlier Reformed theological discussions on this matter.
Previous article in this series: January 15, 2013, p. 182. The Adult Bible Study Society in Southwest Church is studying the book of Genesis. A few weeks ago we came to chapter 4, Cain and Abel. An interesting question was raised by one of the members. He prefaced the question by giving a brief statement of the distinction between Abel's offering of a bloody sacrifice, unto which the Lord had "respect" (v. 4), and Cain's offering of a bloodless sacrifice, unto which the Lord had not...
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