Genesis: The Story We Haven’t Heard (Biblia.com)

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Unfortunately, most of us overlook the dramatic story of God’s work in early time because we read Scripture in disjointed pieces. We miss the suspenseful, sweeping narrative of interconnected events. We miss the nuances of emotion and relationship between the characters. Now in Genesis: The Story We Haven’t Heard, Paul Borgman fits the pieces back together—revealing God’s story as if it had never...

to find as mutual a companion-spirit as possible. Woman’s curse, which follows almost immediately, reinforces the ideal of reciprocity and mutuality: “And for your man shall be your longing,” God says, “[yet] he shall rule over you” (3:16). That no sort of one-way submission could be part of the Ideal Marriage is underscored by what is lost. The wife, now, must submit to the ruling husband. This is part of the “curse.” The focus of the second creation account is on the human condition, and on God’s

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