Genesis narrates our origins as God’s people. The book traces humanity’s story with God from its origin in God’s spoken word that initiates and completes creation. The story moves through our first ancestors’ disobedience to God and their consequent exile from God’s presence. Once outside God’s garden, humanity immediately finds itself mired in sin. Murder, shame, and immorality begin to abound in the story of God’s once perfect world. From the first
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