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Meditations Vol. 1: Genesis

The True Myth (Genesis 2:9)

Meditations on Genesis #8

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Genesis 2:9b

The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

People who read Genesis 2 as myth miss out on their actual connection to God, to others, and to the world around them; but people who read Genesis only as history miss out on the moral lesson it presents. That’s why I like to think of Genesis 1-3 …

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