Understanding Genesis: Adam, Eve, and the Fall

Friends, today we continue our series on “Understanding Genesis.” Last time we focused on Creation and today we’re discussing Adam, Eve, and the Fall. How should we understand the creation of Adam and Eve? What actually happened at the Fall? Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt discuss.
A listener asks, why would Mark end his Gospel with the women not telling the Apostles about the resurrection?
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Sounds like you ate from The Tree of Life without knowing it. Indeed, listening to the deeper part of the self is eating from The Tree of Life, which you were already doing. I think God winked at you. We all eat from the Tree of Death when we start to see are differences before or common humanity in childhood. Stay humble.

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@Curtis VanH they as in the evil spirits? If so I wouldn’t go that far because he said it wasn’t an apple, maybe he just felt the need to correct it, but yes that is the not merely the moral of the story

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maybe..but so much is just mythology thrown in with a few facts..amen

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One thing that’s interesting to note is..God had to know that Adam would take that bite out of the fruit. God put that tree of knowledge in front of Adam and pointed to it. So is God saying to humans… the one thing that will destroy you is this. Kind of the big warning you get in instruction manuals..CAUTION you may get electrocuted if you immerse in water. It’s Gods Human Instruction Manual?? So the message is for us… not Adam. I love these discussions. Thank you Bishop Barron for sharing your wisdom.

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His explanation of the Fall is enlightening!

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Thank you Bishop Barron. I will share share this with my son. We’ve talked a bit about this subject already and he was quite surprised to find that the Catholic Church didn’t hold a fundamentalist view of the Adam and Eve story. He’s an unfortunate victim of the misinformation spread through social media as well as my failure to educate him beyond the simplistic literal education he received in 2nd grade Catholic School. He’s an intelligent 23 year old who was smart enough to suspect there was more to the story (pun intended) but just hadn’t been interested enough to look into the subject. Please pray that I can convince him to take the time to watch the video. Thank you. God bless your ministry.

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Thank you !! Excellent explanation

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Powerful breaking open of Genisis. I absolutely love this

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We had a Jersey cow Brandon on our farm, but she got struck by lightning. We’ll be in the market for another milk cow as soon as possible. Good luck with your cow and yes Bishop is right; get into making cheese. I would also suggest yogurt. Keep the whey, (by-product of cheese etc.) get some pigs, and feed them the whey with your pig feed. Excellent show by the way. Maybe we can turn the comments into a homesteading forum.

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Struck by lightening? That sounds horrible.

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I like this interpretation of the Adam and Eve story in Genesis too.

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I love the idea of first focusing on all the 'what we can do' God says to Adam and Eve before focusing on His one prohibition against what not to do (to not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil)

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