I. M. Duguid, ‘The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden is the archetype of all subsequent exile (Gen. 3:24).’23 Genesis 4–11 tells the sorry story of humankind’s decline into evil: Cain slays Abel, Lamech is a man of vengeance, the flood generation is full of wickedness, and Babel shows the overreach of human arrogance. However, even so humanity remains in the divine image (e.g. Gen. 9:6 and Jas 3:9), but, as Scot McKnight suggests, we are now ‘cracked eikons’.24 The Paulines provide
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