In this episode, we have Dave Aldridge join us as an elder and ex-chaplain to men and women in Addiction Life Recovery. We start with an overview on the first 2 chapters, talking about the difference between the first 2 accounts. The first is the macro specific an literal, yet general and abstract. Then the 2nd account is the micro, focusing on the personal and intimate story and themes of God and his intentions for humans.

We also ask difficult questions like: how can we trust the Bible for telling us the truth, when it's trying to tell us things like God made us out of physical dirt?

When it comes to the topic of the man and the woman, we discussed how the Bible both describes/explains but also seems to be prescribes/imply a pattern for relationships, sex, and family all in the matter of the last verses of chapter 2.

**Correction: Multiple times it was quoted that in the episode that Genesis doesn't use the actual word paradise; however, in the Greek Septuagint, this actually is the word used to describe "garden/orchard" it is the word "παράδεισον", as paradise and garden are synonyms in the Bible because of the Hebrew/Greek interchange.