Tower of Babel. Group entitlement falls over.
In Genesis 11, when everyone still spoke a common language, we hear of a people who wanted to be secure and stay together, by building a city featuring a tower up to the heavens. We have been calling the ‘Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’ that Adam and Eve ate...
Noah and the flood
This is not just a children’s story. From Genesis chapters 3 – 6 , the effects of sin reach up even into the heavens, with the ‘sons of God’ (some sort of angels?) coming down to human women. God sees that violence is multiplying, and that human hearts are set on evil...
Cain and Abel. God’s grace in a terrible situation. Genesis 4:1-16. Learning to be aware what is happening inside us, and then learning to bring that to God.
In Genesis 4 we glimpse life after Adam and Eve have eaten the fruit from the one tree they were told not to. Thinking of this as the Tree of Entitlement, rather than the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, makes more and more sense the more I reflect on it. ‘I...
