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God told a man exactly how to stop the worst thing he'd ever do — and he did it anyway.

Genesis 4 through 6. Cain and Abel, the first murder, and how the world went dark fast. This episode we get into the stuff underneath the story: the difference between your first and your leftovers, and why God saw it in the very first offering ever made. The predator picture God gives for sin — "crouching at your door" — and the gap where you still hear that same warning today.

Then the slide. How one man's fed jealousy becomes, four generations later, a guy bragging about violence — and a whole world where every thought was "only evil all the time." Sin doesn't stay the same size. It compounds.

But the dark isn't the last word. There's a thread of people who still call on God's name — and three of the most important words in the book: "But Noah found favor."

You've got a gap between what you feel and what you do. This one's about what you do in it.

Next episode — Noah, the flood, and the God who shuts the door.

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