Hey everybody this is Tim at the Bible Project and you're listening to the

Bible Project podcast last week John and I started a new conversation about the theme of generosity in the storyline of the Bible.

This is connected to a new video that we're making at the Bible Project.

In the last episode we explored some of Geos' most famous teachings

about freedom from anxiety

and learning about the generosity and abundance

that God has in store for his people.

Jesus walked around with this deep conviction that despite all of the pain and suffering

that he saw going on in the world, despite all the pain and suffering that he himself experienced.

He still believed that Yawe, the God of Israel, the creator of heaven and earth, is an extremely generous

host who has given an overabundance. is an

over abundance of resources and opportunities to all of us.

Jesus was able to manage that tension and think it through

because you can see in his teachings his heart and his mind

were soaked in the Hebrew scriptures and specifically the portrait of the generous God in Genesis

chapter 1 and 2. So that's what we're going to look at today. We're going to explore the creation

story in Genesis 1 and how it portrays God as an extremely generous host who's

packing creation full of abundance and opportunity.

We're also going to look at the story of Adam and Eve how they forfeit and take

advantage of God's generosity and then we're going to go into the next story, outside of Eden.

We're going to explore the story of Kane and Abel.

One way to think about it is a story about one person

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