The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Cain's Rejected Offering

Pilgrim
As I look at the matter the way you and I see it. I cannot help but think about the Regulative Principle of Worship.
Mainly because I have heard people who don't hold to the Regulative Principle of Worship argue that it is an issue of faith, not what was offered in worship.
The context had to do with a debate between people who hold to the RPW and those who don't. Those who held to the RPW said both faith and right offering were needed for Cain and Abel’s offerings.
While the other side said that there is no indication in Scripture saying that anything other than a heart filled with faith that lead to God’s acceptance of Abel's offering and not Cain's offering.
At the time of that debate I had to sit back and be an observer, mainly because I held to the RPW, yet I wasn't seeing the issue the same way as the other people who held to the RPW.
Of course, I still believe that much of what we see in Churches today is not true worship. But, I don't think the story of Cain and Abel's offering is the argument to use to prove the RPW.

Tom