We are in a season of looking at the larger context of our life with God, starting at the very beginning. A striking moment in the early stories comes whey Yahveh curses the serpent, promising that the seed of Adam and the seed of the serpent will be enemies and “strike” or “bruise” one another. Later (2nd century) Christian writers assign this scene to Jesus’ triumph over evil in His resurrection. Instead, we look at the related theme of “seed” in the promise to Abraham, that the moving forward of God’s rescue plan is carried by (often very flawed) humans descended from Adam, coming full circle to “the second Adam” of Paul’s writings. In the end, God never shakes His head and says, “Too bad those kids made so many bad choices. It’s a shame they’ll have to suffer the consequences forever.” Instead, He uses our consequences to lead us back to Him, and the compassion with which He treats us is how we are to treat each other.
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