19 - Who Told you that you were naked
Who told you that you were naked? Eating of the tree gave Adam and Eve new and uncomfortable knowledge about creation. First of these lessons is that everything in creation is not working in your fav…
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18 - The Founding Trauma
The Founding Trauma It genuinely is PTSD. Adam and Eve have experienced trauma. For the first time, they experience malicious manipulation. An individual with more power has for the first time used…
17 - The Great Inversion
The Great Inversion Power is the basis of all the mimetic rivalry Girard believes drives society. The serpent, the accuser introduces the new normal in desire and imitation. When these were once rul…
16 - The Accuser
The Accuser When we look back, the first time we see Adam and Eve confronted with their own limitation as creation is not by God asking if they ate of the tree, but when the serpent confronts them i…
15 - The true fall
The true fall When we look back, the first time we see Adam and Eve confronted with their own limitation as creation is not by God asking if they ate of the tree, but when the serpent confronts them…
14 - The serpent god
The serpent god God never left. There was never some great chasm created by sin that we could not cross (without the cross). God was always directly behind us, always pursuing. However, we turned …
13 - Eve and the serpent
Eve and the Serpent Eve encounters a serpent who promises her an actual good, to help in imitating God. Because it is an actual good on offer, Eve shares this good thing with Adam. And on the surfac…
12 - Mistakes were made
Mistakes were made Imagine a person who has never experienced hostility or deception, only benevolent service and love. This is Eve in the garden encountering the serpent, she had no reason to distru…
6 - Temptation of power
Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you ar…
5 - It shall not be so among you
You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, a…