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Episode 182: Pete & Jared - The Evolution of Adam

The Bible For Normal People

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What do we have the right to expect from Genesis in terms of information about how things began? And my answer is really very, very little, other than it's a god thing. The assumption that the adam and eve story is another creation story like genesis one is not true at all. They're two different types of literature doing very different kinds of things. I think this is intentional the part of the editors a the two views of god you're going to encounter throughout the rest of the hebrew bible. God is so far off and aloof but ten y other minute, sort of, you feel god's presence close by to you. That's, that is the normal, sort of

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