Hello friends welcome back to another episode of Old Testament in the raw this is week three of the

Sunday school class that I've been teaching and in this lecture slash lesson slash discussion whatever you want to call it I feel weird calling it a lecture

it's more than a discussion because it's but mostly me talking so it is sort of a teaching time anyway this week we dug into Genesis 2 and

Genesis 3 I began by summarizing some key things that we talked about last Sunday in Genesis 1, namely how Genesis 1 emphasizes

the transcendence of God while also elevating the high status of humanity in the

Declaration in Genesis 1 26 to 28 that humanity is created in God's image. So we began this Sunday teasing that out a little bit talking about the idle background to the concept of being created in God's image that it's sort of playing off of the

well-known theme in the Old Testament that humans are not supposed to worship idols

and yet the very word image of God,

image of God plays off of that theme of idolatry.

And also only kings in Egypt are created in God's image

according to the ancient nearest mindset and so we

teased that out a little bit as well. Then we dug into Genesis 2 and emphasized or

at least throughout different ways in which Genesis 2 emphasizes the

personalness or the imminence of God and we looked at several things there in

Genesis 2 we we looked at several things there in Genesis 2. We looked at a map where the possible location

was for the Garden of Eden.

We also looked at a major theological point in the connection

between the Garden of Eden and later the later Tabernacle temple, even the

person of Jesus and also the church and then finally

we looked at Genesis 3 and the nature of the fall and Adam and Eve's rebellion

against God so I hope you enjoy this lecture, this Old Testament in

the Raw episode. It did, so the recording again is you know I recorded on a little $10

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