SLIDE 1- Moses’ Storyline:
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:
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?
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
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
Paul Anthony Wallis 