Taking Responsibility and Bearing Guilt

Extra Credit Podcast · Aug 31, 2023 · 1h

This week we discuss God’s conversation with Adam and Eve after they have taken and eaten the fruit (Genesis 3:8-13). We look particularly at the problem of Adam’s and Eve’s blame shifting (which is our problem), and the way Christ overcomes the problem. Christ is the one who takes responsibility for the world. He is the one who bears the guilt of the world—yet without sin. And as the body of Christ we are called into the same vocation: taking responsibility not only for our own sins but also the sins of the world, and bearing guilt for the sake of our neighbors.

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