₦airaland Forum

Sam Adeyemi, PhD (Organizational Leadership) from Regent University

keneryhark:
The African culture of having to bestow or entrust a late man's wife to a family member which is popularly known in Yoruba culture as "sulopo". What are the advantage and disadvantages? Let discuss?

Advantages in levirite marriage?

If I start my story...

Life happens. I wish the country could get better at least for average Nigerian to experience what it means to be a citizen of country abundantly blessed. Omo eleran to nje egun ( the child of a butcher that eats bone). What a paradox!

21st century goat. Goat wey sabi use him brain pass some ZoneB! E be like say the goat go sabi prices of food commodities.

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DenreleDave:
All these epistles.


Abeg someone shud summarize it abeg

I plead with you to read through!

Twoclans:
Professor C C Soludo I use God beg you just forget this country , Nigeria is irredeemable. You were part of vision 2020 team and you equally had something to do with the NEEDS and SEEDS program.

How far can we say the country has gone vis a vis those two programmes. Nigeria is beyond redemption dont stress yourself

NEEDS was truncated by Yaradua's presidency

Good night baba ' Beyond Pushing Files'. I can not forget your Boardroom dexterity while you served as chairman of a board I was privileged to serve as recording secretary about 20 years ago. Good night baba.

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live4dgospel:
If Cain has good heart, then he would have offered a right sacrifice. In order words, Abel wouldn't have offered wrong sacrifice even if he was a farmer because his heart is good. For instance, he would have borrowed from Cain, if Cain was the farmer. In a nutshell, Cain offering is wrong because his heart is wrong.

That is my submission. I drew this inference because of the statement made by Jehovah in verse 7.

Toyinjones2020:
I agree completely with what you wrote while I disagree with the submission of the op
The bible says God rejected Cain and his offering while he has respect unto Abel and his offering.This brings us to the fact that God is more interested in the person and not necessarily the offering.Do you remember the widow that Jesus commended despite sacrificing little

Thumb up! It was the condition of his heart.

"God spoke to Cain: “Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it’s out to get you, you’ve got to master it.”

Gen 4:7

Reference:
In a way, yes. This particular passage has been the subject of debate in the church throughout the ages because the texts are not detailed enough to make definitive conclusions as to why Abel was accepted and Cain rejected. However the New Testament gives some clues. Three passages, three lessons:

Hebrew 11: 4, speaks of FAITHLESSNESS.
1 John 3: 12, speaks about UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jude 1: 11, speaks of GAIN, PROFIT, MONEY

The only light which runs through the three without fault lines is: COVETOUSNESS.

In all I feel that he Cain probably offered a so called sacrifice to God of inedible produce as if God was a hungry refugee or a prison inmate together with a bargaining chip on his shoulder, the way modern day Christians think they can trade with God as equals in the matters of provisions, wealth and sustenance.

A man who cannot let go in love, expecting nothing in return cannot receive and a man that offers to God what he himself cannot accept is covetous and evil. For only by faith can He be pleased.

Thumb up!

The condition of his heart!

Tobechuckwu:
It's like u still don't understand d difference between a sacrifice nd a gift.
Cain knew wat he offered won't be accepted in the first place nd he knew wat he needed to offer as a sacrifice.
Even if he was a farmer,trade by barter has been since ages he could have exchanged some of his products for a worthy sacrifice.
A sacrifice must cost u something for it to be accepted in the first place.
The questions God asked him showed Cain knew wat he offered was wrong nd him getting angry is also a sign that he knew wat he needed to offer.

You don't give gift to God. You offer sacrifice

Tobechuckwu:
I think u are wrong on this very issue!
They both knew what was required of them to sacrifice nd wat d sacrifice must be made of because the question God ask Cain showed that Cain knew he needed to sacrifice,but intentionally didn't do it.
Read it carefully nd try to see d the questions asked him by God.
It was a sacrifice,not a gift so it must cost him something.
Cain didn't go d extra mile for d sacrifice.

I repeat, it was the condition of his heart. What was alluded to in Hebrews lend credence to this,"...by faith Abel offered a better sacrifice ". What makes it better is not spilling of blood. When David poured water that was fetch him by his men, was that not a sacrifice?

As a farmer that he was, would you have expected him to give what does not belong to him? If Abel were to be Cain, his sacrifice would still be acceptable cos of his heart.

LilBlaze24o:
The Bible account of Cain and Abel making their offerings is very brief. At Genesis 4:3-5, we read: “It came about at the expiration of some time that Cain proceeded to bring some fruits of the ground as an offering to Jehovah. But as for Abel, he too brought some firstlings of his flock, even their fatty pieces. Now while Jehovah was looking with favor upon Abel and his offering, he did not look with any favor upon Cain and upon his offering.”

There is no mention in the Bible that prior to this event Jehovah had given any specific information about sacrifices or about what kind of sacrifices would be acceptable to him. Thus, Cain and Abel evidently made their offerings solely of their own volition. They were barred from access to their parents’ original Paradise home; they began to feel the effects of sin; and they were alienated from God. In their sinful and pitiful state, they must have felt strongly the need to turn to God for help. Offering God a gift was likely a voluntary gesture on their part toward gaining God’s favor.

As matters turned out, Abel’s offering was accepted by God, but Cain’s was not. Why? Was it because Abel offered the right things and Cain did not? We cannot be sure that the type of offering had no bearing on matters, since neither of them had been told what was acceptable and what was not. However, it is likely that either type was acceptable. In the Law that Jehovah eventually gave the nation of Israel, acceptable sacrifices included not only animals or animal parts but also roasted grain, sheaves of barley, fine flour, baked goods, and wine. (Leviticus 6:19-23; 7:11-13; 23:10-13) Evidently, it was not the substance alone of the sacrifices of Cain and Abel that caused God to accept one and reject the other.​—Compare Isaiah 1:11; Amos 5:22.

Centuries later, the apostle Paul stated: “By faith Abel offered God a sacrifice of greater worth than Cain, through which faith he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness respecting his gifts.” (Hebrews 11:4) Thus, it was because of faith that Abel was recognized as righteous by God. But faith in what? Faith in Jehovah’s promise that he would provide the Seed, who would ‘bruise the head of the serpent’ and restore the peace and perfection that mankind once enjoyed. From the statement that the Seed would be ‘bruised in the heel,’ Abel might have reasoned that a sacrifice involving the shedding of blood was needed. (Genesis 3:15) Nonetheless, the fact remains that it was Abel’s expression of faith that made his “a sacrifice of greater worth than Cain.”

By the same token, Cain was rejected, not because he offered the wrong kind of sacrifice, but because he lacked faith, as indicated by his actions. Jehovah had clearly pointed out to Cain: “If you turn to doing good, will there not be an exaltation?” (Genesis 4:7) God did not reject Cain on account of any displeasure over his offering. Rather, it was “because his own works were wicked”​—marked by jealousy, hatred, and finally murder—​that Cain was rejected by God.​—1 John 3:12.

It was the condition of his heart and not the elements of the sacrifice