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Book of the Fall

Genesis 3:7 – How famine unbalanced masculine and feminine

The famine of the Fall profoundly unbalanced the human psyche. Masculine aspects were amplified by the all-consuming quest for food, while feminine aspects were avoided, denigrated, punished and repressed to…

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Genesis 38:9 – Onan, spilled seed, and levirate marriage

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Book of Parables

Genesis 38:9 – Onan, spilled seed, and levirate marriage

Genesis 38:9, the story of Onan spilling his seed on the ground, is one of those Bible tales that many people know, yet don’t necessarily know its context. Judah, one…

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Genesis 19 – The strange tale of Sodom and Gomorrah

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 19 – The strange tale of Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 19, the account of God’s destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot’s escape, is one of the best-known yet also strangest tales in the Bible. The…

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Genesis 22 – Child sacrifice was a trauma response

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 22 – Child sacrifice was a trauma response

What are we to make of Genesis 22, God’s demand to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, his only child? In Essential Torah, George Robinson describes Genesis 22 as “the most terrifying…

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Genesis 17 – God traumatises His own creation

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Book of Parables

Genesis 17 – God traumatises His own creation

Genesis 17 is one of the most provocative chapters of the Bible—God’s instruction to Abraham to circumcise himself and his people as a promise of faithfulness. The Bible account relates…

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Genesis 5:1-2 – The myth of Adam as the first man

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 5 – The myth of Adam as the first man

Genesis 5:1-2 states that “God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants…

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Genesis 3:16 – The rule of masculine over feminine

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 3:16 – The rule of masculine over feminine

Genesis 3:16 records one of the critical consequences of the Fall—the domination of the masculine over the feminine which laid the patriarchal foundation for what we call civilization, and which…

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Genesis 1-2 – The Law of 7 and the process of creation

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 1-2 – The Law of 7 and the process of creation

As a historical account of creation, Genesis 1-2 may seem to have has little to offer the modern world. Yet behind this frozen façade, these verses reveal one of God’s…

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Genesis 3 – Original sin = generational trauma

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Book of the Fall

Genesis 3 – Original sin = generational trauma

When I was growing up, one of the things that really bothered me about Christianity (aside from corporal punishment at a Catholic primary school in Switzerland) was the doctrine of…

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Book of Childish Things

Matthew 7 – Seeing God through a cracked lens

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