Genesis 2: Digging Deeper in the Garden

Back up the train.

We're not there yet.

We're at Genesis 2.

And Genesis 2, we start off there in Genesis 2.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done.

And he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Mm-mm-mm.

And I love the, well, first of all, I love this idea of rest.

But I think, as we've talked about here a lot in Bible Study Besties, like the scripture is written for us, but it was not written to us.

And for us to understand maybe that, you know, to more deeply understand scriptures, it's really, we just have to tune in maybe a little bit to how an ancient listener would know and understand the scripture.

The analogy that I've used before is like going to a foreign country and, you know, they, they, They have words and pieces of their culture that you are not going to understand initially.

And you will eventually become fluent in it, in the language and the culture.

But it's something that will feel very foreign to you initially.

I

have said something.

Can I put a point in there too, Heather? I have said also too, when you understand the culture, you understand the Bible better.

Yep.

That's exactly right.

Right.

Because when you're understanding the culture that the Bible is written in, it comes more alive.

Because like I said, we've talked about this several times on episodes, but we're reading it from a Western lens.

Well, we don't have all the culture things that they have in the Middle East.

And so reading it from that cultural lens really helps you understand and interpret rightly.

So thank you for letting me put a pin in there.