This occurred to me when I finally decided to read the bible through and started with the book of Genesis. When I read the account of Abel and Cain, I first thought "how could Abel kill an animal" supposedly humans weren't allowed to kill animals until after the flood. Abel must have only been raising them for the wool not for the meat. How did Abel know that he could kill an animal, shed blood, and that god would accept that. Cain raised vegetables, sacrificed to god and that wasn't accepted. I looked it up in the WT publications, the Insight book and read this convoluted explanation. "God expressed favor toward Abel’s offering but not Cain’s. How the approval and the rejection were manifested the record does not show, but it was undoubtedly evident to both men. (the record does not show, why then does the WTS infer or add to the scripture) Some point out (The WTS is doing that) that Abel’s offering is specified to have been of the “firstlings of his flock, even their fatty pieces,” whereas Cain’s offering is not said to be of the choicest fruits (What implying that Cain offered inferior things?) Did Abel think that shedding the blood of a living creature was a more valuable sacrifice, perhaps meditating on the divine promise at Genesis 3:15 concerning the seed, whose blood would have to be shed? Many centuries after Abel’s time, the sacrifice of an unblemished lamb was used to picture the sacrifice of God’s own perfect Son.(John 1:29) However, much of that surely lay well beyond Abel’s understanding. The reason for God’s approval of only Abel’s offering is made clear by later writings. (If not clear based on the account, why assume that Abel and Cain knew why one sacrifice was favored and the other not) The apostle Paul lists Abel as the first man of faith, a Hebrews 11:4, and shows that this resulted in his sacrifice being of “greater worth” than Cain’s offering. By contrast, 1 John 3:11,12 shows Cain’s heart attitude to have been bad (so God knew what Cain would do before he did it, that there was no hope Cain would not follow through on his thought?); and his later rejection of God’s counsel and warning, as well as his premeditated murder of his brother Abel, demonstrated this." Well, this started me asking questions about other accounts like this and looking up what the WTS had to say about it? By the time I got to the end of the book of Genesis, I had looked and researched 20 topics, and I realized that the WTS had their own slant on things, (where the record did not show).
