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Sermon Clip: That, Not How

The Genesis 1 creation story has always left people with questions. The main one being: Is Genesis 1 a literal story of how God created our universe?

In this sermon clip, Greg Boyd talks about how when he was young, he wrestled with this question as a Christian.

In the full sermon, Greg presents three reasons why he believes that Genesis 1 was not intended to be taken as a literal account, but rather a narrative to express important truths about who the early Jews were and who their God was.

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The Suffering of God

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Sermon Clip: The Cross and the Tree

In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses how Christians should react to the world with love. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They did this because they didn’t understand that God was protecting them. In this sermon, Greg…

Podcast: How Will God Fix the Mess We Made of Creation?

Greg considers the relationship between human redemption and the redemption of creation.How will God keep his promises to creation? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0082.mp3

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The Root of Broken Relationships

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Trying to Acquire What You Already Have

Image by Joshua Earle The lies Satan told to Eve in the garden made eating from the forbidden tree (the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) look desirable. On the one hand, the lies caused her to question God’s trustworthiness. And correspondingly, on the other hand, they also caused her to question whether it is…