Bible as Literature Unjust Punishment In the Story of Cain and Able I believe that Cain was unjustly punished for the death of his brother able. How was Cain to know that killing his brother was a sin? His family were the only people on earth and no one had died, so how was he to know that if he beat up his brother bad enough he would kill him. As far as Cain knew …showed first 75 words of 929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 929 total…the blame. So God showed compassion in an attempt to make himself feel better about what he had done to Cain. So clearly the death of Abel is should not rest completely on Cain's shoulder, God should have taken some of the blame and not punished him so severely. If God had been a little clearer to them on death, there is big possibility that Abel's death probably would have and could have been avoided.