Making Sense of Life Through The Biblical Story Podcast

In this episode we’re going to look how the Story moves from Adam to Noah. In particular, we will see what becomes of the Seed of the Woman.

• In this episode, we continue our look into the Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman. In what we think of as The Curse, God had told the Serpent that He would put conflict between his Seed and the Seed of the Woman. At the time, it wasn’t apparent what these two Seed were, but in the story of Cain and Abel, they begin to come into focus. We began looking at that in the last episode. Today, we want to continue what we started there, and watch these two lines materialize more fully.

• In what we think of as The Curse, God had told the Serpent that He would put conflict between the seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman, and He told the woman that He would multiply her pain and her pregnancies, and that in pain she would bring forth Sons. In this episode, we’ll watch as these elements of the Story begin to play out.

It is commonly taught, at least among Evangelicals, that the Curse impacted how a man and woman would relate in marriage—specifically, that the woman would desire to control her husband, but that her husband would dominate her harshly. But as I've followed the development of The Story, I no longer believe that's true. I believe that Genesis 3:16 is saying something very different—something hopeful, not punitive. In this episode, we'll look at the woman’s desire—what it is, and why it is good, not bad.

In this episode of The Story, we explore the consequences of the Woman's decision to be like God and to pursue the knowledge of Good and Evil independent of Him.  As we watch things play out, we will look at the things that happened as a result of that decision and the consequences of that decision that plague us still today. At the heart of this episode, we want to understand what God meant when He told the Man they would die in the day they ate.

• In this episode of The Story, we’re going to explore the account that is often called The Fall of Man.  As we watch this play out, we will look at the temptation presented to the woman, what was wrong with the woman’s desire to know good and evil, and how the same elements of that temptation challenge us down to today.

In this episode, we’re going to take a look at the special place that God created for His representative, more detail about the role that God gave him in the Story, and the mate provided for him in all of this. In short, we're going to get a glimpse of Life, here at the beginning of the Story.

• In this first episode in The Story, we’re going to see how God brings order to Creation and fills it with Life, and then creates man, male and female, to continue that work as His representative. As we watch this play out, we will get a glimpse of the Fellowship God intended to share with His representatives, and encounter what I believe is a fundamental question that will guide us in our understanding of the Story.

Garth gives the background out of which this podcast grows. Motivated by a frustration with the random and fragmented nature of the Christian faith as he had experienced it, he set out to understand that faith in a cohesive and comprehensive way. In the process, he came to see the Bible, not as a collection of stories, but as a single a Story, and that the key to understanding it is to treat it as such.

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