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The Story of Us and what The Fall wasn’t – Genesis 2:15-3:24

Posted by paulanthonywallis on February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

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SLIDE 1- Moses’ Storyline:

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Innocence, Comfort, Ease, Privilege

Dissonance, Decisions

Identity, Position

Consequences

Broken relationship with Father

Removal from privilege

Exile from ease

Hard yakka

Grace of God

SLIDE 2 – Joseph’s Storyline:

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Innocence, Comfort, Ease, Privilege

Dissonance, Decisions

Identity, Position

Consequences

Broken relationship with Father

Removal from privilege

Exile from ease

Hard yakka

Grace of God

SLIDE 3 – A Universal Storyline?

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Innocence, Comfort, Ease, Privilege

Dissonance, Decisions

Identity, Position

Consequences

Broken relationship

Removal from privilege

Exile from ease

Hard yakka

Grace of God

 

SLIDE 4 – FALLING / THE CHANGES MAPPED BY GENESIS 3-11

Innocence           >             Responsibility, Consequences

Nakedness         >               Self-Consciousness, Covering up

Harmony             >             Gender Conflict

Ease                       >            Pain, Hard Yakka

Mortality + Cure >            Mortality

Harmony             >             Competition, Jealousy, Murder, Enmity

Humanity            >             Interference

Longevity            >             120 years

Harmony             >             We eat animals, they eat us

Sibling society    >             Oppressors & Slaves, Haves and Have-Nots

Harmony             >             Separation of cultures and languages

Harmony             >             Separation of cultures and languages

People can’t understand one another

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SLIDE 5 – What Genesis does not say…

Before the fall humans were inherently good. Human nature was essentially good.
After the fall humans became inherently bad. The fall changed human nature into a sinful nature, incapable of anything good.

 

SLIDE 6 – THE CHANGES MAPPED BY GENESIS 3-11

Innocence           >             Responsibility, Consequences

Nakedness         >              Self-Consciousness, Covering up

Harmony             >             Gender Conflict

Ease                       >            Pain, Hard Yakka

Mortality + Cure >            Mortality

Harmony             >             Competition, Jealousy, Murder, Enmity

Humanity            >             Interference

Longevity            >             120 years

Harmony             >             We eat animals, they eat us

Sibling society    >             Oppressors & Slaves, Haves and Have-nots

Harmony             >             Separation of cultures and languages

Harmony             >             Separation of cultures and languages

People can’t understand one another

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