A non-admission of the need for the Redeemer from sin and guilt does not free a sinner from his sin and guilt. Just what many think of as a sign of their faithfulness to God - their religious service - reveals precisely their non-reconciliation with God.

Let us remember Cain and Abel and their religious service:

"In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell." (Genesis 4:3- 5)

Both Cain and Abel offered their sacrifices in their service to God. As among different religions in the world, so among those two services there was not an apparently significant difference. Either offered what he had with regard to the conditions in which he lived.

We often hear the assertion: "Let everyone serve God in his own way, God accepts every service on condition that it is sincere and from the heart!"

By this assertion it is often tried to justify the religion of the sinful and self-righteous human heart which scorns God's law in the name of respecting human customs (which stand for a covering for sinful heart and unclear conscience. It is forgotten that real love is not a blind course of some motives which come out from the interior of our being. Love is a reasonable and purposeful answer to the needs of the environment and requirements of the Heavens. If I come across a wounded man on the street I will not give him a bouquet of flowers to show him in that way that I love him, but I will help him as much as possible. There are no differences in character with men, except those caused by sin, which might prevent men from acting in the only purposeful way in the meeting with a person who needs love (in this case - help). In the same way and in the relationship with God, there exists adequate, already defined way in which man should show his love to God (the first 4 commandments of God's law speak of it).

In the Garden of Eden we see that the man should have expressed his love toward God through the obedience the ban on eating the forbidden fruit, then through the acceptance of the holiness and blessing of the Day of Rest, and after the Fall, we see the ceremonial sacrificing of animals which represent the prophecy of Christ's sacrifice.

Differently from Abel, Cain offered as sacrifice fruit and vegetables which surely cannot be the ceremonial prophecy pointing to Christ. So, Cain's service revealed his unconsciousness of the need for the Redeemer of the sin and guilt. God could not accept such service as pleasant.

"And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 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: ..." (Genesis 4:4-8)

Differently from Abel, Cain still did not kill anyone but in his heart the sin was conceived. His attempt to, by criticizing and self- justification, soothe his conscience, did not bear results. Therefore, when they were in the field, Cain murdered his brother (Genesis 4:8).

"The deserved karma happened to him because he killed innocent animal" Cain probably thought, having established his "peace" and "justice on the Earth". But the peace of his conscience he still could not establish.

When God then appeared to him, Cain said to Him:

"Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me." (Genesis 4:14)

Cain was afraid of what he deserved. The fear of confrontation with his own conscience he transferred to the fear from confrontation with the environment. He ascribed his aggressive tendencies to others and to God his character of not forgiving.

In His grace, God did not take Cain's life immediately after the sin committed. He left him alive and offered him a chance to repent in the meantime. However, Cain, with his conscience burdened, was afraid that the punishment he had deserved would befall him immediately. The fear befell him for he had rather accepted to bear the heavy burden of his conscience, than the easy yoke of God's mercy. "So the first will kill me that I meet" said Cain.

God did not want to torment Cain by karma, i.e. by the burden of guilt and the fear of coming judgment, in order to made him thereby obedient to God.

"And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him." (Gen. 4:15)

We should respect man's right to serve his deity in the way he wants it, but that does not mean that God will accept man's arbitrary and self-righteous service.

God accepts only a service which is the expression of man's obedience. It is worth before God because it reveals the love of the one who is moved by it.

But, let us note that God accepts only voluntary obedience. When Cain decided to go his own way, God did not block that way of his.

The one who is saved will not be with Christ because he had to be so, for, maybe, he had had troubles in the life, but because he voluntarily decided to love his Lord.

Every human being is given the opportunities to choose to whom he will serve.

According to the teaching of those who believe in reincarnation everyone will be saved sooner or later. Their resistance to God only postpones the time when they will be, through an expiation for their sins, cleansed and be with God again. That is compulsory salvation.

Let us imagine a man who say to the girl he wants very much: "Dear girl, I want to be intimate with you but I respect the freedom of your choice. You do not have to be with me! But, I will beat you so much and you will suffer so much until you finally agree with my requirements!"