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Recap - Adam and the Garden of Eden - Genesis 2: 04 – 25 · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, recaps through the Bible.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Adam in the Garden of Eden, Genesis 2, 4-25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 2 brings us closer to humanity's beginning.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 1 showed mankind created in the image of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we see the man formed from the ground itself, with life coming directly from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That connection to the ground becomes important.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: The man is formed from it, placed in a garden, and later given responsibility to work and keep it.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Work is already part of humanity's purpose before sin enters the story.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: God plants the garden in Eden and places the man there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trees are described as both pleasant to the sight and good for food.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Eden is not simply useful, it is a place of provision and beauty.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Two trees are singled out, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: At this point, Genesis does not explain everything about them, but one of them soon becomes the center of God's first recorded command to the man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before that command, the passage also describes a river flowing from Eden and dividing into four rivers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Tigris and Euphrates are recognizable names, while the locations connected with the Pishon and Gihon are much less certain today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The land of Havilah is described as having gold, onyx, and bedelium.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bedelium is usually understood to be a fragrant tree resin, although its exact identification is uncertain.
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  SPEAKER_00: These details help present Eden as a place surrounded by abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God places the man in the garden to work it and keep it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God gives him freedom to eat from the trees of the garden with one restriction.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: He must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: The command begins with generosity before introducing the prohibition, but the warning attached to it is serious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Disobedience will bring death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then something happens for the first time in the creation story.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says, It is not good that the man should be alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: The animals are brought to Adam, and he names them, but none is found to be a helper fit for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: God then causes Adam to fall into a deep sleep and forms the woman from his own body.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: When Adam sees her, he immediately recognizes the connection between them.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is not simply another creature living beside him.
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  SPEAKER_00: She shares his human nature.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Genesis then gives the pattern that grows out of this first union.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: A man leaves his father and mother, holds fast to his wife, and the two become one flesh.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: The chapter ends with a simple statement that becomes especially important once Genesis 3 begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: The man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no hiding, fear, or shame between them.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Humanity is living in relationship with God, with one another, and with creation without the brokenness that will soon enter the story.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Adam and the Garden of Eden, Genesis 2 4 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 3 and the fall of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.