Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-3:20
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Verse 17 stood out to me today. In our OT Survey class, we discussed that parents should avoid making rules before they’re needed, lest the child get ideas from the rules. For example, if you tell your kid he cannot put peas in his nose, you may have just given him an idea that never occurred to him. So when I read verse 17 today, I appreciated that God, being a fantastic Father, tried to keep us from the knowledge of good & evil. If only we would have listened!
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Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Trinity in Marriage 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I wrote this paper for a recently seminary class. It is pretty lengthy, but I loved writing it, if you have time, enjoy:-) Trinity in Marriage INTRODUCTION There are several mysteries in the Christian faith that are hard to explain in human terms. Some of them include Jesus being 100% man and at the exact same time being 100% [...] -
Toriano Mayo wrote a new blog post: Why Do You Try to Save Yourself by Works: Yes You Christians 1 year, 5 months ago · View
You know, something has been striking me recently as sort of surprising, and really disturbing. There are so many people who claimed they are saved by grace, but then they go on living, as if they were saved by works. We see this same problem in Galatians, and for some reason we think we are far [...] -
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
Its interesting that we often forget about ”the serpent” in our everyday life. We’re busy, we’re stressed, we’ve got things to do. We may not see the deception that is slowly spoken over us throughout the day – lies, empty promise, provocative thoughts. We shrug these off as our own thoughts, maybe our own brokenness. Praying that God would help me to distinguish His voice and say ”NO!” to the lies of the serpent.Genesis 3:12-13 = BLAME
When we are in a compromised situation, it is so easy to pass the blame off to others. ”She told me to do it.” ”I was decieved; I didn’t know.” ”It is not my fault.” But, God knows. He knew that while Adam & Eve were decieved, they both gave into a temptation of pride, jealousy, desire. They wanted to be like God. Praying that God would help me to see my true heart intentions behind my everyday actions. -
Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: The Oldest Lie in the Book 1 year, 9 months ago · View
Perhaps you’ve heard the cliché “the oldest lie in the book” referring sometimes to “the check’s in the mail” but “the oldest lie in the book” is literally in the Book of Beginnings, the book of Genesis. It is spoken by the “father of lies”, satan. Satan’s opening line, posed as a question (Gen 3:1), [...]
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SMeeks posted an update about Genesis 1-2: 1 year, 9 months ago · View
Creation:
(1) Heavens + Earth + Light (= Day + Night)
(2) Sky + Water
(3) Dry Land/Earth + Seas + Vegetation
(4) Sun + Moon
(5) Ocean Animals + Birds
(6) Livestock + Earth Animals + Man
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: A LABOR OF LOVE 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. (Lamentations 2:19) LET THE CHILDREN There is a sinister, ugly spirit, a [...]
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natalie wrote a new blog post: the “Genesis” of my Biblefox reading plan! 3 years ago · View
Genesis 1:27 - God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. What a good thing to recognize that God not only created us, but created us in his own image . I recently read part of a book called Designed for Dignity . It was good in that it really stressed [...]
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Alan Collins wrote a new blog post: Gods last words to mankind 3 years, 1 month ago · View
Reading the last entry in our series for essential 100, Revelation 21-22 I was struck how like every great story the ending was connected back up with the start. Just read about the Tree of life in Genesis 2 before reading the last chapter of the last book. There are many similarities between the New [...]
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Hannah Venable wrote a new blog post: Childbearing and Women 3 years, 5 months ago · View
As I read many of these stories, I am struck by the importance of childbearing. It seems like one of the primary callings for women is to bear a child. And it seems like it is one of the main ways that God wants to use them. In Judges 13-16, we saw how God gave [...]
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Richard Venable wrote a new blog post: A Bible in Every Blog 3 years, 6 months ago · View
In the first post on this development blog, we mentioned how we are using Wordpress as the core of our website, giving us incredible blogging tools right out of the box. So, what features have we added on our own that set us apart from other blog services? Basically, we put a Bible in every blog… Scripture [...]
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Philip Harvey wrote a new blog post: Action 3 years, 6 months ago · View
Just a couple of things I was thinking about as I read it. 1) As Exodus was the first book of the Hebrew scripture it is interesting to think that this is perhaps the first event that involved God and all of Israel in action with each other. Passover (and the following consecration of the [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable commented on the blog post Ruins of the Tower 3 years, 6 months ago · View
When satan asked Adam and Eve “Hath God said?” in Genesis 3, he sowed those seeds of suspicion. He then implied, reading between the lines, that God was withholding his best from Adam and Eve, not permitting them to “be as gods.” So those first seeds of suspicion of God’s goodness have been multiplying ever [...]
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Alan Collins wrote a new blog post: The Fall of Man and the Grace of God 3 years, 6 months ago · View
Its interesting reading where God curses Satan and says He’ll put enmity between him and the woman, and between his seed and her seed”. This is intersting because as far as I’m aware a woman doesn’t provide a seed with reproduction. Its the man who has the sperm which is the seed. The only man [...]
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Richard Venable wrote a new blog post: The Vast Array 3 years, 6 months ago · View
“The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.” (Gen 2:1) God created the vastness of the heavens, which expand beyond our comprehension. He lit billions of stars, clustered them into galaxies, and tossed them into the deep darkness, painting it with fiery colors. But this “vast array” isn’t limited to the heavens, [...]
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shireen wrote a new blog post: The impact of Genesis 3 3 years, 6 months ago · View
This passage has really challenged me to consider the impact and consequence of that decision that Adam and Eve made in the Garden of Eden. Too often when we talk about sin… its in little letters and rather understated. But the SIN as the notes say caused the perfect relationship that man was to have [...]
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feebs wrote a new blog post: what? no mutated babies? 3 years, 6 months ago · View
as a science student, the bizarreness of Eve being made out of Adam’s rib, thus having the same genetic structure (no wonder there was no rejection of the tissue transplant!) and then managing to procreate and produce perfectly “normal” kids (unlike what would happen if i made babies with my brother) is just amazing! and [...]
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Hannah Venable wrote a new blog post: Stumbling Around 3 years, 7 months ago · View
After Crossroad on Sunday night, some of us walked outside to see a drunk man stumbling about. He had such a lack of control that he fell into the street. Providentially, there were no cars coming on Queen Street and he was able to pick himself up and get out of the street before he [...]
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I like the connection with your thought and Genesis 2. I hadn’t seen how it was God’s kindness to us to keep us from the tree. I like the pea example.
Peas in your nose? Did David tell you about his brother doing that?