Bible from an American, you know, a modern American, you know, Western perspective. And so for us, when we read Genesis chapter one, we’re essentially reading an account where God makes something out of nothing, right? And just know, yes, God is the one who creates something out of nothing, but Genesis 1 isn’t telling that story. Genesis 1 is actually telling a way more fascinating story. In any ancient Jewish person would have understood Genesis one not as a story of God creating something out of nothing, but God creating order out of chaos. Genesis 1 starts. God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was formless and void. And the spirit of God is hovering over the surface of the deep. What’s the deep? Well, it’s the abyss. It’s the chaotic watery abyss. And then there’s darkness and then there’s the water spirits over the water. So we got the deep, we got darkness, we got waters. This isn’t nothing. And So what does God do? Over the course of 7 days? He rolls up his sleeves and he does something that I had to do with my mother. He started to create boundaries. The. Sea represents chaos. The dry ground represents order. The knight represents chaos. The day represents order. The wilderness represents chaos. The garden represents order. So God doesn’t eradicate chaos. He doesn’t just do away with the sea or do away with the knight or do away with the wilderness. No, no, no. He creates a boundary, and he says that order is going to begin to govern chaos. We assume that the Garden of Eden’s perfect. Yes. A massive assumption that we made. We even preach it all the time. It’s perfect. It’s perfect. It’s perfect. Yeah. Yeah. But God never called it perfect. Genesis doesn’t call it perfect. There’s a there’s a word that God uses for. Called it called it good. Good OK. And guess what good means. Good means there’s a beast in there that’s ready to tempt you. God says that’s good. Good is work. Good is like there’s a job to do. OK. So if if God had created a perfect garden. Adam and he wouldn’t have, they had nothing to do. Most of the most of our images of Eden is like. You know, paradise sipping on pina coladas, you know, just use vacation. But it’s not vacation. Interesting. So what does God do? He puts Adam and Eve in the space to sustain the order that He’s created. So there’s work to do. And their job really was to spread the order so that the garden would overtake the wilderness. But instead of overtaking the wilderness with the garden, they decided to partner with the beast of the wilderness. And then the wilderness begin to overtake the garden. This is the general.
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