What will become of this broken world in light of the curse of sin??? – that is the driving question of the biblical story. Will creation unravel entirely, like a cloth that has been torn inexorably apart? Is the cosmos destined to a fate of death and dissolution? Or can thing yet be set...
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Understanding the Bible 02: Sin in the Garden of Eden
Central to the biblical story is the conviction that something has gone terribly wrong. The world as we experience it is not the world as God intended. In this episode we turn to the biblical explanation why – how humanity moved from the Garden of Eden to a cosmos in which “thorns and thistles” are...
Understanding the Bible 01: In the Beginning… (Creation)
Understanding the Bible in its various chapters and verses requires that we first understand the story as a whole. (Hard to make sense of the details when you don’t know much about the big picture.) So for the next 40 weeks or so, I will do my best to trace the outline of the biblical...