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Origins of Genesis 1–3 studies the claims of the biblical text in these first chapters of Genesis. Focusing closely on the ancient Near Eastern context of the text, professor Walton helps students see how Genesis 1–3 would have been understood by its original audience and leads students to examine the function of the creation story and the issues between science and the Bible.

and God is the center and source of order and of wisdom. The fall was not so much people disobeying, though they did. It’s not so much them eating the fruit of a tree, which they did. The fall is that they decided that they wanted to be like God. That doesn’t mean that they wanted to be omnipotent. It means that they wanted to make themselves the center and source of order. And there is no room in that sacred space for two sources and centers of order and so they forfeit that order that God had provided
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