Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

woman is a theologian. Hi friends, welcome back to Verity Podcast. This week

we're going to be talking about a question that I know a lot of you have asked,

did God set Adam and Eve up to fail when he put them in a garden with the option of

sinning against him? This seems like a super-specific question, but a

surprising amount of people ask it and struggle with it, and so we're going to be talking about

that today, and this question at its core is cosmological. It has to do with cosmology or

the philosophy or theology of creation in the universe, which then also crosses over with anthropology,

the study of or theology of humanity, and bonus theology, hematiology, which is the theology

of sin. So in dealing with this question, we're actually dealing with three different

theologies, and all three of these theologies are talked about in chapter three of my book

Every Woman of theologian. And so this mini series we're doing, these eight weeks is

concentrating each week on a different chapter of every woman of theologian, and I'm touching

on some of the high points of the chapter, but it gets into a lot more of the nitty-gritty details

and answering those questions in the book. So this week we're going to concentrate on Adam and Eve,

and what was happening in the garden. So as I already said, cosmology is the study of the origin

and purpose of the universe. Cosmology is not a strictly Christian discipline, there are a lot of

secular scientists and philosophers who also study cosmology, but the Christian religion can't

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