TADSAILS wrote: ↑05 Jul 2020, 11:38
Apparently I would love to understand what pulled the authors sense of writing to connect biblical stories. Secondly, I would appreciate if he could tell me how he was inspired to give it that title. Did he have an attachment or lesson learned from Cain and Abel?
1st, the story started out with only one pretext, and that was the Cain's mark was an angel. So I started there and everything else literally fell into place. With the one pretext, I added one rule, that rule was Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation for all the events was always preferred. And it just fell into place. It took very little time to write. 4, 5, 6 months and the story was there.
RE: lesson . . . No lesson or attachment really but there was one thing . . . I was listening to a good friend of mine preaching about Cain and Abel and in his sermon he said that no one knew what the mark of Cain was. My friend, Bob Enyart, knows the bible far better than do I, so I couldn't understand how I knew what the mark of Cain was, but he didn't?
Then I started researching the mark of Cain and I was so surprised that no one knew it was an angel, but I did? How is that possible? Finally I came to the understanding that I have no idea where I came up with the idea that Cain was marked with an angel. It will remain a mystery.
As far as the name, Bill O'reilly has a serious of Killing books and well I thought that is a good fit. In addition, in the book, I try to make the point that the first murder changed life on earth far more than eating from the tree of Knowledge. Yes the fall was bad but murder led to the death of every man, women and child on earth in the flood, that is far different than making men work for food.