Introduction To The Hebrew Bible S25

faith-and-doubt

• God is the wise knower and provider of good, but now knowing good and not good is available to the co-rulers, and it's a dangerous kind of knowledge.

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• When God sees what is good, it leads to life. When humans see what is good in their own eyes, it leads to death.

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obedience-and-authority

• Sin is a croucher at the door. Its desire is for you. You can rule it. And Cain rose up against Abel.

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• The woman saw the tree was good for eating, desirable to the eyes, desirable for becoming wise — then the eyes of both were opened and they knew they were naked.

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• Sarai said, may the violence done to me be upon you. Abram said, your slave is in your hand — a damning portrait of Abram.

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self-and-identity

• Every narrative about this man involves deception, lying, cheating — and this is the man called Israel. Non-ideal people that God has to work with.

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