WHY DO MEN HATE?
by Ray C. Stedman History, as we know it, is the story of the wars, battles, and bloodshed of mankind. History is the space in which Cain’s ax ultimately becomes machine guns and napalm, hydrogen explosions and guided missiles. Why is this? Why has humanity throughout the entire space of its history wrestled unendingly with this terrible problem of human hatred and bloodshed? There are many shallow answers which have been given, but these superficial answers — economics, adventure, greed, power politics — all have long since been shown to be insufficient, though you still hear them echoed from time to time. But Scripture says that the key to our twentieth-century dilemma lies in this story that took place at the dawn of history, the story of two brothers, Cain and Abel. Let us read the account, from Genesis 4. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keepe
