The Eden Podcast with Bruce C. E. Fleming

This first marriage, and the description of marriages to come, was the ideal pattern for all men and women to follow, a pattern with four points: Each member of the union to be, separately, first knows God personally . The man (not the woman) leaves his birth family  and together with his wife they establish a new family unit. His primary allegiance is no longer to his parents but to her. When the...

Cook's helper or Partner?  In Genesis 2, when God creates the woman, she is described in relation to the man. In two Hebrew words packed full of meaning, ‘ezer kenegdo , God describes how the two are designed to go together. They are made for each other, just hours apart. Once together, they are to be a resourceful and satisfied pair, at home together in Eden. Modern language versions of the Bible...

It turns out that there’s been a lot of pollution dumped into Genesis 3:16 by translations into the modern languages we use today. They mix new ideas into the verse and cover over the ideas God put there in the original Hebrew words of the verse. Translations make it look like God cursed the woman when God cursed neither the woman nor the man. The translation of that verse has been incorrect. So,...