Tag Archives: Garden of Eden
Our kids are stressed out! We enroll them in the finest pre-schools to make sure they are on track to be accepted to Harvard. We get them on the best youth sports teams so that they can get a division 1 scholarships. We start talking about the intricacies of sexuality before they can even tie their shoes. What’s so wrong…..
Is the Garden of Eden a real place? While this is a very interesting question, I think what is even more interesting is that everyone seems to want to live there. While our Bible atlases may have difficulty pinpointing its precise geographical location, our spiritual GPS keeps telling us X marks the spot.
Why do we believe that the grass is greener on the other…..
Adam and Eve violated God’s law. They were guilty of mutiny in the midst of bounty by foolishly trying to rest control of the helm of their lifeboat from the Captain of their souls and we, as their offspring, continue to be lost at sea.
Embarrassed to admit we had been handed our…..
The Genesis account describes two specific trees, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God did not forbid the Tree of Life; apparently, its fruit would allow one to live forever. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, represented the relationship boundaries between the Creator and the created. Adam…..
The world has a problem, that’s no secret. The life of every human being can be understood as a search for the proper solution. We need to respect the fact that others have put some thought and effort into this conflict, but we also need to have the decency to tell them a Band-Aid is hardly adequate therapy for a hemorrhaging soul. Adam and Eve had one single rule put before them in the Garden. They were instructed to avoid…..
