Peripatetic Pastor

Category: Riffs on Genesis

  • IS GENESIS 3 A FALL STORY AND DOES IT MATTER II

    They paved paradise and put up a parking lotWith a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spotDon’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you got ’til it’s goneThey paved paradise and put up a parking lot Oh, bop, bop, bopOh, bop, bop, bop – “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell…

  • IS GENESIS 3 A FALL STORY: PART II
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    In my first post in this series, I left you, I hope, pondering whether the knowledge of good and evil is a good thing. Given the choice between the knowledge of good and evil and life without death, as are Eve and Adam in the story, which would you choose? This dilemma at the heart…

  • IS GENESIS 3 A FALL STORY?

    My earlier question, “Does the Bible have a plot?” (see the posts at https://wp.me/Pdfqqo-23 and https://wp.me/Pdfqqo-I) leads to a second question, “Is Genesis 3 actually a fall story?” It is taken as such in the theological tradition of which I am a part. When the Bible is read in this tradition, the first three chapters…