But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. Genesis 4:13
Bono’s pontificating is obviously selective. Why is he not speaking out against the genocide?
The globe is bleeding, yet “I stand with the sons of Cain, burned by the fire of Love ” from the ultimate sacrifice to stop this mess. “No Greater Love!” John 15:13
Whether from Gaza to ‘Christian Nationalism’ in the most corrupt West, to tribal cultures trying to break free! But why is the Cain and Abel story and the successive ‘mark on Cain’ so important? Who are the sons of Cain?
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Two Adams, Two Seeds: The Forgotten Lineage of Genesis 5
The blood still cries from the ground. Abel’s silence was not the end—it was the beginning of a divine indictment, a cosmic unraveling. And when Cain, the firstborn of the earth, spilled that blood, the Lord did not crush him. No, He marked him. Not for death—but for wandering. A sign of preservation and judgment, a living parable. “My punishment is too great to bear,” Cain said. And God agreed. Why?
Seven generations later, the line of Cain gives us Lamech—a man of violence, boasting of murder and immunity. The line of the Fretterside, as ancient tribal memory often recalls: the broken brotherhood, the cursed proliferation of fractured men. These are the sons of Cain, the builders of cities, makers of tools, founders of empires. And yet beneath it all—restlessness, vengeance, and a fear of annihilation.
But Scripture does something strange. After this spiral, the text shifts—“Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and named him Seth, for God has appointed another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.”(Genesis 4:25). And now this Adam becomes the head of a new lineage—not just biologically, but covenantally. A second Adam within the same frame. Righteous Seth is not just Abel’s replacement; he is a reset of history.
Two lines. Two Adams. Two humanities.
What if Genesis 5 is showing us something more than genealogy? What if it’s the tale of two priesthoods—one from Cain, marked by violence and innovation without worship; and one from Seth, who inaugurates the calling upon the Name of the Lord?
Cain’s children built civilization. Seth’s children built altars.
And so we must ask today: which lineage do we stand in? The mark of Cain may still be on the world—in systems, in wars, in ideologies of domination. But there is another Adam. There is another Seed. And from that Seed comes the One who bore all marks upon Himself—Jesus, the Final Abel, the True Seth, the Son of Man who conquers not with revenge but with resurrection.
This is the Evangelion—the Announcement of the End of Ungodliness. The Rod of Iron that strikes not flesh but the principalities. The proclamation that the Fretterside has met its end in the cross, and a new humanity is rising.
Let the reader discern: Two Adams. One road ends in ashes. The other in Zion.
