Week 5: Paradise Lost (WBC)

At the end of Genesis 2, we found ourselves in a perfect garden, an ordered creation pronounced unequivocally good by its Creator. But human experience tells us that we are far from such a place now. In Genesis 3, we are given an explanation for the brokenness, sorrow, and travail that are the common experience of all who have lived on God’s green earth. Is it a story as familiar as temptation itself, but it is not a story devoid of hope. (Genesis 3)