Jun 04 2024 20 mins 4
Blurb: Charming fairytale, or divine truth? How we sit with the Genesis creation stories shapes how we approach life's biggest questions: on life's meaning, love, the nature of reality, gender, marriage and human suffering.
Excerpt from episode: "...where Adam under the first Tree stood passively while his beloved was ambushed by the serpent, Christ the new Adam, puts his body on the line to protect his beloved from the serpent. You may be interested to know that the translation of the word serpent ‘nachash’ is sometimes translated as dragon. Was it a dragon then, in Eden? It would go to show why men are so obsessed with slaying dragons in world mythology, because that was precisely what Adam didn’t do. Instead of using his masculine strength to fight and defend, he stood by passively … which is the opposite of slaying the dragon. Christ however, restores this masculine genius for men. And for women, Mary’s fiat restores the feminine genius that was lost when Eve failed as the nurturing mother of all living. Through Mary, we learn once again that, “a woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold” – that’s from St Edith Stein. While many woman will be called to biological motherhood, all women are first called to spiritual motherhood… in the same way that all men are first called to spiritual fatherhood (and not merely grown-up boyhood). Jesus and Mary, pray for us, that we may see in you the redemption of our masculinity and femininity, Amen."
Suggested further content:
Dr John Lennox - Confidence in Genesis
Dr Jordan Peterson - Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order
Soundtrack credits: Background music used episode is from, or covers of , the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim OST (Jeremy Soule)
