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Am I my brother's keeper?

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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 . ( Genesis 4:8-10 ) ) What we can learn from a Homeless Man Scripture above records a very perverted account of a relationship between two brothers. And depending on how we perceive the scripture to interpret brotherhood,  we may very well be playing out  this murder of our brothers over and over again.  The thing that metaphysically calls us Cains is our  defining of the word brother.  How we answer the question  " Who is my brother? " makes a different in the level of hypocrisy in which we walk out our Christian faith.  Do we limit brotherhood to those ...