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Larry Pratt:
With Conceal and Carry, Would Cain Have Slayed Able?



Genesis 4: 6-11

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

According to Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, if there would have been conceal and carry rights when -- according to the Bible -- the only people on Earth were Adam, Eve, Cain and Able, Able could have taken out Cain. Had this been the case, the murder rate would have been the astronomical rate of 1 out of four. (Adam + Eve + Cain + Able = 4; less Able). Likewise, after Able's death, one out of three people were murderers.

Continuing on with the story of Genesis, it quickly becomes obvious that God is a bleeding heart liberal. Did God whip up Adam and Eve to go out and kill that murdering bastard Cain? No. In fact, He warned that anyone taking out Cain would pay big time. Read the following:

Genesis: 15-17

And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

(I'm not sure where Cain's wife came from. But Cain went over the hill and he began to multiply quiet prolifically. I'll leave off here, because we don't want to have to indoctrinate you children with sex education and have to explain all the begating that takes place for the next group of verses.)
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Here's how Larry Pratt interprets the Cain and Able story:

The underlying argument for gun control seems to be that the availability of guns causes crime. By extension, the availability of any weapon would have to be viewed as a cause of crime. What does the Bible say about such a view?

Perhaps we should start at the beginning, or at least very close to the beginning--in Genesis 4. In this chapter we read about the first murder. Cain had offered an unacceptable sacrifice, and Cain was upset that God insisted that he do the right thing. In other words, Cain was peeved that he could not do his own thing.

Cain decided to kill his brother rather than get right with God. There were no guns available, although there may well have been a knife. Whether it was a knife or a rock, the Bible does not say. The point is, the evil in Cain's heart was the cause of the murder, not the availability of the murder weapon.

God's response was not to ban rocks or knives, or whatever, but to banish the murderer. Later (see Genesis 9:5-6) God instituted capital punishment, but said not a word about banning weapons.
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Below is Genesis 9: 5-6, does anybody see any contradictions here?

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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Read more by Larry Pratt on why God wants his followers to be able conceal and carry in church on Sunday. Obviously, it's alright, cause the Bible tells Larry Pratt so.

What would Jesus carry?