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Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/the-wilderness-of-the-sea/
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What this book knows
Wilderness and garden are the Bible's two poles of creaturely existence — death-without-God versus life-with-God — and every biblical story navigates between them.
faith-and-doubt
When they go into the wilderness, they face a crisis of life and death, and they meet God, and they trust him. And then what they get in the wilderness is Eden.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-001If a new creation moment is about God creating Eden out of a hopeless environment — it looks like we're facing another situation of non-life.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-021God says: I am making all things new. I will give to the one who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. Infinite water, infinite life.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-024mortality
If God doesn't continue to supply generously the water and the stable ground, we will turn back into that wilderness once again. And that is de-creation.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-015You are dust and to the dust you will return. From the wilderness, back to the wilderness. Thorns and thistles become a primary symbol of the wilderness.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-018self-and-identity
The wilderness is a way of saying: For created beings, we come from the dust — and if... For anything whose existence is conditional, there must be some one greater.
BP-THE-WILDERNESS-OF-THE-SEA-RC-0146 published passages · interview · research analysis
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