Creation & Sin

Pastors Ashley Mathews and Isaiah DeVyldere begin their discussion of what the Bible has to say about the roles of men, women and the Gospel with an exploration of creation and sin in Genesis 1-3.

SHOW NOTES

• The drone vs. go-pro analogy for the different perspectives of creation in Genesis 1 and 2 is from Nijay Gupta in chapter 2 of his book Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
• The language of the “vandalism of Shalom” is from Cornelius Plantinga in his book Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
• More from Tim Mackie and BibleProject on “pain in childbirth” in Genesis 3:16: Does God Punish Women with Pain in Childbirth?

BIBLICAL REFERENCES

• Genesis 1-3, 4:7
• Romans 5:14, 15

OTHER WORKS REFERENCED

• Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination  //  William G. Witt
• Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters  //  Iain Provan

• (00:00) - Tempo: 120.0
• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:39) - Point 1: God creates humanity, male and female, in his own image, and then he blesses them with the mutual responsibility of ruling and stewarding creation together.
• (23:45) - Point 2: God creates woman as a distinct and yet corrosponding partner for man. This is a partnership centered on sameness rather than difference.
• (30:41) - Point 3: Genesis chapter 3 describes the consequences of humanity's sin rather than prescribes God's original design. Sin is making wrong what God made right.
• (49:26) - Conclusion