“By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.” Hebrews 11:4 Raised by the same parents, no doubt Cain and Abel had been told the story of their parent’s failure in the Garden of Eden and how God had sacrificed an animal to make an atonement for their sin. They had probably participated year after year as their parents built an altar and sacrificed a lamb. I can imagine them building their altars side by…