https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24413490 Hearing the sound of God walking caused fear rather than joy.  Then God asks the first of a multitude of best questions in the Bible: “Adam, where are you?” Adam’s reply to God is illustrative of Adam’s failure and corruption; when misery and death result from Adam pretending to be God, Adam blames God … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 3:8-15

Is Genesis the condensed theology of the whole Bible? Does Genesis contain all the answers to all the most important questions, the solution to every puzzle? Let’s see over the course of the coming weeks. Many of you are joining in on the Genesis study podcasts, which are being posted every weekday.  In conjunction with … Continue reading Is this the best of all possible worlds?

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24392379 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was beautiful and its fruit was good because everything God creates is beautiful and good. Thus, the temptation to eat from it was real. The tree, according to Martin Luther, was the first altar, the place where Adam practiced honesty about dependence on God and … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 3:6-7

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24380988 The silence between Genesis 2:25 and 3:1 is where Adam went bad; this becomes evident as chapter 3 unfolds. Adam has reversed and inverted what the image of God is; from God’s green arc to Adam pretending to be god by inventing a law to impose on Eve, all the while abandoning Eve to … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 3:1-5

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24368229 God creates animals, and Adam names them with divine substantivity.  There is no helper found to remain before Adam, which is proven absolutely by creating all other animals first. God causes Adam to sleep (thus human beings can be anesthetized) and makes a woman from his rib. There is no question of the common … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 2:19-25

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24356118 God explains that is it not good for man to be alone. There are two reasons for this. First, there is one God, yet three persons and a relationship between them. Jesus says a lot about the relationship between the persons of the Trinity in John’s Gospel. God’s nature is love and love gives … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 2:18

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24340758 God forms man from dust and breathes into him the breath of life. With a body, soul, and spirit, man is a living being. God plants a garden for Adam to tend and keep. Historicity evident in description of lands, rivers, and geological riches. Trees for food, tree of life, tree of knowledge of … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 2:7-17

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24318189 Creation at the end of day six: plants produce food for all; nothing dies, there is no waste.  Day 7 is for rest.Gen. 2:4 “History of creation” is a hinge from the big picture preceding to focus on creation of humanity in Gen. 2.

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24306522 What is the image of God?  How are we to know? God revealed in the Bible and by His names/work; God incarnate in gospels; in the details of verses 26 and 27. We delve into the corruption/perversion of concepts and so language in a fallen world: Dominion from a red pyramid rather than green … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 1:26-27

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24294870 The days of creation follow a pattern that progresses and repeats, from raw materials to refined, detailed elements of nature, similar to the way our work often progresses from general to specific. The material world is God’s means of teaching us about the underlying reality of relationships.Day 1—Light and darkness. Jesus is the light … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 1:1-25