Knowing your origin story matters. Understanding Eden’s grand potential (Genesis 1-s), helps you understand the colossal fall in Genesis 3, and helps shape your understanding of the world and where you’ve come from, and where the story is headed.
Think about if you walk into a movie halfway through, or open a book in the middle. You don’t understand what’s broken or missing. You can’t understand what’s been lost.
It’s like being slightly sad at the funeral of someone you never met, but secretly wishing the funeral would be over so you can get back to whatever you wanted to do with your day. Contrast that with grieving over a person you deeply loved; someone you knew from the beginning of their life until the end; someone you long to see again.
We experience loss differently when we know the full story. We long for resolution differently.
Guest: Nancy Guthrie
Bible Passage: Genesis 1-3
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Recommended Resources: Amazon Storefront for the Genesis Series
Mentioned Resources:
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- Even Better Than Eden
- Blessed (new book on Revelation)
- Help Me Teach the Bible Podcast
- Biblical Theology Workshop for Women
Music: Cade Popkin Music
Welcome Back
Welcome back to another series of Live Like It’s True! Here in season 4 (and I can’t believe we’re already at season 4!) we’re looking at the True Story of the Beginning. Our origin story.
Eden’s Fall
Today, in our conversation with Nancy Guthrie, we’re going to look at the Story of Eden’s Fall. We’re going to consider what has been lost by backing up to look at the opening scene of Creation. But then, we’re also going to look at why we’re not just trying to get back to the garden and regain what was lost; our hopes are pinned on something better than Eden.
Joining me is Nancy Guthrie, author of Even Better Than Eden, which is one of our recommended resources for this season. Today, our conversation will be more of an overview of Genesis 1-3. Then in the coming episodes, we’ll look at different sections of the story:
- Kelly Needham will return to talk with me about Male and Female in Genesis 1.
- Mary Kassian will return to talk about Man and Wife.
- And Courtney Doctor and I will talk about the Lying Snake in Genesis 3.
We have a fabulous lineup of guests and so much to discover. I hope you’ll stick around for the whole season.
Nancy Guthrie
Nancy Guthrie teaches the Bible at her church and at conferences around the country and the world—including her Biblical Theology Workshop for Women. She is the author of numerous books, including our recommended resource, Even Better Than Eden. Nancy hosts the Help Me Teach the Bible podcast at The Gospel Coalition. She and her husband host Respite Retreats for couples who have faced the death of a child and are co-hosts of the GriefShare video series.
- NancyGuthrie.com
- Help Me Teach the Bible Podcast
- Blessed Podcast – Conversations about Revelation
