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Genesis 1-11 Question & Response

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/genesis-1-11-q-r/

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Genesis 1-11 stages the human refusal to receive good from God and the violence that self-defined morality inevitably produces.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

obedience-and-authoritymortalityfaith-and-doubt

obedience-and-authority

Are they going to receive good from God, or take good and define it on their own terms? That's the human experience as far back as we can tell.
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We inevitably redefine good and evil in selfish me and my tribe type of terms — exhibit A, human history.
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The serpent — an icon of chaos and disorder, death in God's good world — tries to lead humans to rebellion.
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mortality

From their perspective, the point is everybody's dying — sin and death bringing about death in God's good world.
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faith-and-doubt

The biblical authors believe in the God of Israel as the one true Creator, and tell these stories from that theological angle.
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The sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful and took wives — the LORD said his Spirit shall not strive with man forever.
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