Genesis 1: order and function
• Previous material overview
• New explorations in the first creation account
• What is each day about?
• Image of God- what is it about?
• Creation out of nothing?

Genesis 1: Cosmic temple and rest
• Previous material overview
• Spreading order vs Spreading sacred space
• Ruling vs relaxing on the 7th day
• 7 day inauguration?
• Literary vs. Chronology
• what does this means for human priesthood?

Genesis 2: The Garden and Trees
• Previous material overview
• Should we consider the garden to be a pristine paradise?
• Should we think that we are headed back to eden (Revelation does have some parallels to the Gen 2 account)

Genesis 2: Adam and Eve
• Previous material overview
• Nakedness and the clothing of flesh
• What does it mean that they are archetypes? Does this mean they were not “real”?
• Humans created immortal?
• Were they “perfect”?

Genesis 3: The Fall
• Previous material overview
• Serpent- How should we understand his role?
• Death before the fall?
• Is the origin of sin the focus of Gen 3? Are Adam and Eve being punished for sin?
• Romans 5- How is Paul using the Gen 3 account there?

Genesis 3: The Pronouncement
• What is going on in Gen 3:16?
• Should we consider it messianic?
• Why the guardian with the sword?

Genesis and science
• Previous material overview
• What are some of your new explorations in this area?
• Is the Bible compatible with evolutionary models (godless models)?
• Is there a war between science and the Bible?