Saved from Chaos: How the Biblical Story Reframes Sin, Space, and Salvation (Image Series)

Voxology

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

How the story of salvation is far more expansive than sin management—unraveling the Old Testament's narrative of chaos, pollution, and broken image-bearing, Mike Erre and Tim Stafford dive into what we're truly saved from. Continuing their deep-dive Salvation Series, this episode explores new creation space, the cosmic pollution of sin, and how Israel's tabernacle points to God's larger rescue plan.

Key Takeaways: • Understanding Sin as Cosmic Disorder – Instead of personal moral trip-ups, sin is described as chaos invading God's ordered creation, disrupting divine image-bearing. • Temple as New Creation Space – How Eden, the tabernacle, and later the temple represent God's ordered space in a chaotic world, and why that matters for understanding salvation. • Humankind's Vocational Failure – What it means that humans stopped imaging God and instead bore the image of creation, upending their priestly and kingly roles. • Sin as Pollution – Ancient Israel's purification rituals show that sin was seen as contaminating space, not just breaking a rule, and why this changes our view of atonement. • A Bigger Picture of "Saved From" – Not just hell or wrath, but from the power of chaos, disorder, and idolatry that fractured creation.

Guest Highlights: Seth Erie – Makes another delightful cameo bringing brightness, humor, and a big 'good morning' to listeners.

Resources Mentioned: • John Walton – Works on Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology • Gregory Beale – "The Temple and the Church's Mission" • Christopher Wright – Theological insights on Old Testament narrative • John Sailhamer – "The Pentateuch as Narrative" • Tim Gombis – Perspectives on Romans and cosmic framing of sin • Michael Heiser – Insights on the spiritual realm and Genesis 6 • Leviticus 16 and Numbers 35 – Old Testament passages on pollution and atonement

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As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Feel free to email in questions to hello@voxpodcast.com, and to engage the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

We're on YouTube (if you're into that kinda thing): VOXOLOGY TV.

Our Merch Store! ETSY

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Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify

Support the Voxology Podcast on Patreon

The Voxology Spotify channel can be found here: Voxology Radio

Follow Mike on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikeerre

Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

Instagram & Twitter: @GoneTimothy

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Voxology podcast. Mike and Tim here. We're glad that you're with us today.
0:06.7	We are delighted, in fact, to be a small part of your life. And so we're going to continue on in a series of
0:15.7	conversations that we've been having around a different way to sort of narrate the biblical story beyond the,
0:23.6	I accept Jesus into my heart and I'm forgiven story that many of us were handed.
0:30.1	Before we get there, though, we have, not surprisingly, some thoughts from our incredibly intelligent audience about missions, which we spent some time
0:40.9	on reflecting on Tim had made a comment. We got some responses. We added comments, and we got
0:48.5	some more responses. I'm getting lots of responses on comments. I think I should also clear the air on the dead ringer since we got so much pushback on that.
1:00.4	Yeah, why don't you start there?
1:02.8	So we shared strange facts.
1:04.7	That wasn't the strange fact, but that was like a side fact that I shared like the etymology.
1:09.9	Is that how you say it?
1:11.3	Did I just make that word up?
1:13.6	Where that phrase came from, being the people eating on lead plates being buried alive,
1:18.7	but it turns out it's really just about horses.
1:23.1	And many people were eager to write it and let me know that I had messed that one up.
1:27.7	The real version is boring, more boring than the version that I told.
1:31.9	So I'm just going to stick with what I have.
1:33.6	Well, not only that, but what was the song lyric or the song that you messed up?
1:37.1	I mean, people are watching you like a hawk, man.
1:40.1	What was it?
1:41.7	That is funny, the things that I get pushed back on.
1:46.4	Yeah, well. Woody Guthrie.
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