Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started, and when we get started, just a moment, we're picking up in

Genesis Chapter 3.

So, nothing really eventful is going to happen here.

But we don't have a lot to recap, because we're not that far into the Bible

so and I won't belabor things too much I always belabor things a little but not too much

so I'm not going to go through our whole big long introduction to the Torah, introduction

to Genesis and all that again.

Genesis 1, obviously, through 1-1 through 2-1, we read the creation of the world, right, structured around seven days.

Genesis 2, we read about the creation of humanity, first of man, then of woman.

That really brings us to chapter three.

Is that the quickest review ever?

Because if I go any more into that,

we'll have less time for chapter three.

So let's just go ahead,

unless anybody has any leftover questions or comments

or Christmas goodies they want to give me.

We'll go ahead and get started in Genesis chapter 3 verse 1.

Now the serpent was more cunning than all the wild animals, the Lord God made on the earth.

And he said to the woman, has God indeed said, you shall not eat from every tree of the garden.

So, we'll start here.

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