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5.03.2010

GENESIS 2:4-25

For NIV reading click here http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A4-25&version=NIV

We can go ahead and read the next section...I might come back to Friday's reading, though, and make more comments on the text and its theology. It's in many ways foundational to the rest of the Bible, certainly the rest of Genesis-Deuteronomy and Joshua.

One of the things I'd really like to encourage us to do is to come to some theological conclusions about the text we are reading. That just means answering the question: based on the reading, what are some things you could say are true about God and His relationship with us (including commands, promises, saving activity, grace, etc.)?

Have a phenomenal day!

Prayers,
Matt
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3 comments:

  1. AndyMay 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    In my short 45 years, 7 or which reading the bible nearly daily, I've come to only one hard theological conclusion. There is a GOD and I'm not HE. Furthermore, we may as well give HIM our life, because HE'S got us by the scruff of the neck anyway. It is hard to kick against the goads, if I may quote the AUTHOR of the WORD.

    Up until Eve and Adam partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, everything was good. The simile seems evident to me. It's all good. It's not all easy or pleasant, but it's all for GOD'S eternal purposes, and thus good.

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  2. MattMay 3, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    Some scholars have had a difficult time reconciling Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. In some ways, this is understandable. But read as theological documents, inspired writings about God and how God has brought all things into being, they are not only compatible, but complimentary. Genesis 2 is God getting into the gritty details of forming man, man's recognition of his need for woman, woman create as helper (not subordinate...'helper' is also used of God), a glorious life with every need abundantly provided, enjoyable work that is beautifully fruitful rather than a struggle, and a giddy ad-hoc poem upon first glancing the beautful woman. Quite a chapter! Thanks be to God!

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  3. Dave WybleMay 4, 2010 at 9:48 PM

    I like your interpretation Matt. I don't have a problem with the differences between the two stories, but I never really knew what to make of this second one. After reading it several times over a few days, I was really hoping for some inspirational observations, but all I came up with was this comment.

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