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[#25] Summary of Genesis 1 – The Redemption of Religion

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This is a summary episode for everything we have looked at in Genesis 1–2 so far.

Genesis 1 SummaryThe reasons for this summary are numerous:

  1. To remind you of what we have seen so far.
  2. To provide the big picture overview of what we have seen. Sometimes it is easy to miss the forest for the trees, and while my detailed explanations of individual verses are important for the study of Scripture, we don’t want to miss out on the overall theme and focus of Scripture.
  3. New listeners might get overwhelmed with having to listen to 23 podcast episodes on one chapter of the Bible. If you are new here, these summary episodes can help get you up to speed more quickly. Of course, after hearing the summary, you may want to go back and listen to several of the more detailed episodes to the get the fuller explanation of what these verses mean.
  4. Even if you have listened to all the other episodes, you will still want to listen to this one, because in this episode I tie together all the strands and themes that we have looked at so far and present you with the overall big picture truth.

In this Discussion of Genesis 1 we look at:

  • How Christmas, Easter, the cross, and the Gospels helps us understand Genesis 1
  • The truth that redemption is a key theme in Scripture
  • A summary of how Moses interacts with the religions of his day
  • How God sought to redeem the religions of Moses’ day
  • How God can also redeem our own religion – especially the Christian religion

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[#24] Genesis 1 Q&A

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As we worked our way through Genesis 1 and the first creation account in Genesis, numerous people sent in questions about what they were learning.

Before we move on in our study of Scripture, I wanted to take an episode to answer some of these questions. I have already personally answered most of the questions sent in to the people who sent them, but I figured I would ask and answer these questions in a podcast episode as well since you might have similar questions.

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To ask your own questions on future episodes, feel free to comment on the blog post of any episode, contact me through the contact form, message me on Facebook, or send me an email.

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[#23] Genesis 2:1-3 (Part 2) – Liberating God from the Sabbath Rest

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This is Part 2 of our study of Genesis 2:1-3, which is the seventh day of the creation week and the day on which God rested from His work.

In Part 1, we looked at the text itself and considered various key terms and issues in this text, and also began to show how this text serves as a theological polemic against some of the religions in the days of Moses.

I left you with a cliffhanger at the end of the show, and that is where we pick up in this episode.

This study of Genesis 2:1-3 reveals something regarding the Sabbath which you have likely never heard before. If you listen, you will hear something regarding the Sabbath that will likely liberate you from all the religious rules and regulations you worry about regarding the Sabbath.

This study of Genesis 2:1-3 will liberate you from Sabbath bondage. Your Sabbath observance will be liberated from the shackles of religion, and will be brought back into the way God intended it to be. By the end of today’s show, you will be excited to observe the Sabbath, because you will be invited to observe it as God Himself does.

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The Text of Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

In this discussion of Genesis 2:1-3 we look at:

  • How God invited the Israelites to enter into their rest.
  • How the Israelites would have understood God’s rest in Genesis 2:1-3.
  • Why this text is clearly a temple inauguration text.
  • Why God’s rest is not the cessation of activity, but the beginning of real activity
  • How we can participate with God in His restful ruling of this world.

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[#22] Genesis 2:1-3 (Part 1) – The Sabbath Rest of God

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Do you observe the Sabbath? Why or why not?

Lots of people struggle with whether or not we should observe the Sabbath. On the one hand, Sabbath observance seems like a very religious and legalistic thing to do, but on the other hand, God set up the Sabbath as an everlasting covenant (Exod 31:16).

This episode begins to look at Genesis 2:1-3 and Day 7 of the creation week as we begin to answer these important questions.

Genesis 2:1-3 Sabbath
Ironically, this image shows that Sunday is the Sabbath…

The Text of Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

In this discussion of Genesis 2:1-3 we look at:

  • The last day of Creation, Day 7
  • How Moses used this day to set Yahweh apart from other gods
  • Why Moses doesn’t actually use the word for “Sabbath”
  • Why Moses presents God as needing to rest

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[#19] Genesis 1:26 – The Image of God (Part 1)

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What does Genesis 1:26 mean when it refers to humans being made in the image of God?

Does it mean that we have intellect, emotions, and will?

Or maybe, just as God is a Trinity, is it referring to our three parts: body, soul, and spirit.

Or does it refer to something else entirely?

I go with the last option: something else entirely. We begin to see what that something else is in this episode of the One Verse Podcast as we begin to look at the image of God in Genesis 1:26.

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The Text of Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In this discussion of Genesis 1:26 we look at:

  • What it means to be made in the image of God.
  • Why the image of God is not related to the Trinity.
  • Why the image of God is not intellect, emotions, and will.
  • The first (of four) contextual clues about the image of God.

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