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The Wilderness E3: How Do People End Up in the Wilderness?

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/how-do-people-end-up-in-the-wilderness/

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Humans exile each other into the wilderness through deception, oppression, and violence — patterns that precede and illuminate God's later leading of Israel there.

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

trauma-and-survivalobedience-and-authorityfaith-and-doubt

trauma-and-survival

all of the stories before that are of people exiling each other into the wilderness — an honest depiction of how complicated humans are
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she doesn't have any choice in the matter — transferred from one powerful, abusive man to another
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obedience-and-authority

I will multiply your seed… Yahweh has heard your oppression — the Abraham blessing given to Hagar's child
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their exile from the garden is self-caused — they brought it on themselves by not trusting God's provision
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faith-and-doubt

when my body has what it needs, it's easy to forget I'm sustained by something greater — the wilderness tests: do I trust God is enough?
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the wilderness teaches us about the fragility of all life — to be a creature is to be on the precipice
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Illuminates

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