This is the Bama Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today I'm with Josh Bosse and now Elgro Vfrix to gather once again around the fire and wrestle with the radical implications of putting the divine image into practice.

Yes, here we are. We're really getting close to the end here and things are about to really get exciting, both because of the content and because El is here.

You know, I know when to show up. We're about to start talking about humans. We're about to talk about Salam. I'm excited.

Oh yes, we're getting into it.

Saving the best for last. Last will be first.

Yes, and these are definitely my favorite episodes. I mean, they build on each other. So this stuff really stretches us in terms of how we can incarnate this whole story.

God's telling in really profound ways. So without further ado, Brent, will you start giving us the text so we can start chewing on it?

And God said let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground and the wild animals each according to its kind.

And it was so God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good. Then God said, let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky.

Over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God, he created them.

Mailing female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and increase in number.

Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

Then God said, I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.

They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground, everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food. And it was so.

God saw all that he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day.

Sounds pretty good. Walking into this recording, I felt like I was going to hide the fact that my voice is feeling a little weird, but as I read that, I'm like, no, there's no doubt.

Something is wrong. So I would like to create those deeper tones.

Yeah, it's very sultry. It's it's sweet. I like it. I think some Johnny Cash does.

I don't need any more of that really. Okay.

Yeah, we'll try and go easy on your voice here today.

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