Genesis Marks the Spot

Marriage according to the Bible:  What was adultery in the Old Testament?  Why is it only for women? 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
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Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Marriage according to the Bible.  Beginning a survey of passages about marriage and defining marriage in the ancient Near East: what is a concubine and how did marriage "happen"?  What's inheritance got to do with it?  Why are polygamy and other "unsavory" practices in the Torah?    

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Marriage as Covenant:  https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Covenant-Biblical-Developed-Malachi/dp/1620324563/ref=sr_1_1?crid=326QZJ7E4KXN1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2VI_JoGMAM15Uncw5k4sJS-hmOkmatHID5o8OZxfpNg.vERNi8IIY233ESckoVK-wgA63eQTbcLLIFifw_vzPhM&dib_tag=se&keywords=marriage+as+covenant+hugenberger&qid=1727381819&sprefix=marriage+as+covenant+hugenberge%2Caps%2C277&sr=8-1

Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Continuing the conversation about sexuality with a detour into the topic of physical embodiment as seen from Jesus, the gospel, sacrament, and community.  Do you see creation as cursed?  Are the sacraments "just" symbolic?  Two connected questions that with the message of the gospel can help us address our discomforts with our bodies. 

**Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com 

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The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale: https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Gender-Christian-Theory-ebook/dp/B0B788FF4P/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZGFZ2I8ZMQCK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.j1LrLhnaMWMJu3WjdTEGlB3UVYx9h4HoH58TsSXYfQTkHO9FN87x7HTCwtdkxODFnjylTt4LAmPTk8NiRdU26W8RwfPwgoFua5pOsLJUh8aOfYlcnAWvbA3a2ggvmi7FNxgBrEtMFguSn2RiODZQAAr0BczXD7oUTF3BSkkH-vQM9Y-C2dcUGWr5UuXnBL-6b1Qv7IsXYDKQMR2dvvCSi43y3LQWFqJlPd181RQ02yY.mUGQ-bHZL2moVXEI-3j5Iq6zX0zW3DUr2kpCMf0Y6MA&dib_tag=se&keywords=genesis+of+gender&qid=1726187422&sprefix=genesis+of+gende%2Caps%2C413&sr=8-1 

Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self:  https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism-ebook/dp/B089DNYCDY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JEO4LXC43NL8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n7ClJSV_Ak5yIAAOfQjcZbTbWGEAai2Zs3V-T1OjaMQkNAAKwHG4O8z7t-S0sT6UWnN24LEVuXwVgsfDhDGeFqXgvpo88nhNf3hsx6kg0TR7yeh5z4A0qbDZOovf2T2_zRTOad6N7jh2NIPXK03M69bVL9owaZDmcTjbPCOL--C0DqD9YEHaZo_8ZPhBhhpJ.TvWT7w7_mCC4bJS0fSd2PsohBqEQ9OHOSXRdRC_WQq8&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+rise+and+triumph+of+the+modern+self&qid=1726803170&sprefix=rise+and+triump%2Caps%2C248&sr=8-1 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

How do we understand gender identity from a biblical perspective? 

Focusing on the topic of gender and how it came to be today, I discuss the book the Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale.  She explains the "gender paradigm" and encourages us to see a "Genesis paradigm" in relation to how we see ourselves and our bodies. 

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The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale: https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Gender-Christian-Theory-ebook/dp/B0B788FF4P/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZGFZ2I8ZMQCK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.j1LrLhnaMWMJu3WjdTEGlB3UVYx9h4HoH58TsSXYfQTkHO9FN87x7HTCwtdkxODFnjylTt4LAmPTk8NiRdU26W8RwfPwgoFua5pOsLJUh8aOfYlcnAWvbA3a2ggvmi7FNxgBrEtMFguSn2RiODZQAAr0BczXD7oUTF3BSkkH-vQM9Y-C2dcUGWr5UuXnBL-6b1Qv7IsXYDKQMR2dvvCSi43y3LQWFqJlPd181RQ02yY.mUGQ-bHZL2moVXEI-3j5Iq6zX0zW3DUr2kpCMf0Y6MA&dib_tag=se&keywords=genesis+of+gender&qid=1726187422&sprefix=genesis+of+gende%2Caps%2C413&sr=8-1 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Seeing the cosmos as an interconnected whole does not come naturally to us today.  This is a source of many of our struggles with understanding the divine council worldview, the image of God, and the deep meaning of ritual.  A discussion on science, its nature and uses, and kicking some ideas around to stir up our minds to get that ancient context in our heads as we read Scripture.  The raqia, thresholds, boundaries, and carrying our biblical imaginations from today into yesterday. 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Responding to Doreen Virtue's critique of Dr. Michael Heiser.  Definitions, definitions, definitions.  Elohim, polytheism, divine....what do they mean?  What did Dr. Heiser mean by them?  Can a functional view of these terms help clear the waters? 

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Previous Critique Review on Faith Unaltered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmO60IOeUXg 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

The giant questions: what is the seed of the serpent, who are the Nephilim, and how is it that the flood didn't wipe them out? 

Intersecting with the concepts of the divine council worldview and the identity of the sons of God (are they different from Genesis 6 to Genesis 11/Deuteronomy 32, and were they always rebellious?), and how all this fits in with the gospel of Jesus Christ and the body of Christ! 

Come listen to some answers in Genesis from TJ Steadman. 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Couldn't resist another episode about notetaking, highlighting, and Bible translations!

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Should Christians read the book of Enoch?  What use could it have?  Can a book not in our canon of Scripture contain the gospel?

A conversation with Anthony Delgado ranging from the exile to the end of time. 

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan

Genesis interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the "Words of the Luminaries": (4Q504) and a "Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus" (4Q422). 

The Words of the Luminaries is a set of weekly liturgical prayers and the Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus is in the genre of "rewritten Bible," perhaps used as or with a homily.  These are excellent texts to investigate how the people of Qumran and other Jews were thinking about the creation account.  What aspects were they bringing out for use and application outside Scripture?  Some of the points might surprise us, and they can lead to some interesting conversation. 

Bonus topic for this week: an encouragement for liturgical prayer!  

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Music credit: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan 
Link to Wintergatan’s website: https://wintergatan.net/  
Link to the original Marble Machine video by Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q&ab_channel=Wintergatan