Understanding Genesis: Adam, Eve, and the Fall

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Bishop Barron just said something that is going to change my life from this day forward: "The negative is a...privation of what ought to be there. Being, and positivity, is always more ontologically basic than negativity." Basically, suffering is not a thing! God's goodness is all there is, and any suffering, sadness, pain that appears is, I guess you could say, the absence of what is real and true, God's love. And that only happens with our permission; hence, the Fall. Up until I heard those words just now, I gave suffering a place of honor in my reality hierarchy, when actually it doesn't belong on there at all. Mind blown.

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[@johnpro2847]

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

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[@gloriavaldez3754]

Beautiful insight by Bishop Barron on genesis May God bless you and Brandon Vogt.

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Lastima que no entiendo ingles. Pero me imagino que es majestuoso, como todos sus sermones. El Señor los bendiga

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[@viscomfa]

I had this life changing dream about 20 years ago, where I was in the garden of Eden and darn if I didn’t bite the apple! That is when I realized that it was part of my human nature to seek out life under my own terms. Controlling my desire to control and practicing the art of submission to God’s will changed everything. Only then did I begin to recognize what God would make of me.

[@bottomhead2518]

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.

[@ericholmberg2963]

It wasn't an apple...

[@Desta4508]

@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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[@bizarte24_]

@@ericholmberg2963 I heard it was cherries.

[@chellesblackman4082]

Just starting reading Bible in a Year again with Fr. Mike. This is a perfect way to delve into Genesis deeper. Thanking Bishop Barron and Brandon for helping to deepen my Faith!

[@deussacracommunioest2108]

"Sin turns the Garden in a Desert" Thanks for that, your blessing!

[@marypinakat8594]

*"I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."* -JESUS (John 10:10) NRSV

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I like what Bishop Barron said about see God’s original plan as good. We use to focus on in the original sin and the suffering.

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[@STRENGTHFROMABOVE]

To everyone watching this, pray and agree: Loving God, I pray that you will comfort us in my suffering, lend skill to the hands of my healers, and bless the means used for my cure. Give me such confidence in the power of your grace, that even when I am afraid, I may put my whole trust in you; through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen

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[@imnotanalien7839]

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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So timely. May our people hear and understand!

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Thank you Bishop Barron for the great insight into this passage from

[@stumblingstonemusic6519]

Genesis. May God bless you in your life and work.

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Thank you Fr Barron. I like your explanation to focus on the prerogative of God to decide what is good and evil.

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thanks bishop may god send forth his holy spirit to give you more wisdom to teach us more about the bible may god be praise amen

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Thank you Jesus Praise the Lord

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Great, I love it. God bless.

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Thank you Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt ….Great intellectual explanation that is comprehensible

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Three years now from the first time I started to listen. From this show I would have loved to listen Bishop Barron talk about the issue of Man being created before the Woman.

[@stevelizzul4575]

His explanation of the Fall is enlightening!

[@trainerfjk6269]

Always great to hear the discussion turn 'Theodrama' vs 'Ego-drama'. Strong discussion, look forward to more

[@IONov990]

I forget God wants us to enjoy life instead of restricting us from happiness. I wonder how beautiful the Garden of Eden was. I wonder how beautiful Adam and Eve were because they were the only humans personally handcrafted by the hands of God.

[@annette4660]

I forget that, too. Being reminded that the natural state is happiness, and suffering is the absence of something, is so helpful to me.

[@IONov990]

@@annette4660 It is easy to think God wants to deprive us from happiness. Sins seem so much more enticing than being a saint.

[@annette4660]

@@IONov990 It's actually not possible for God to deprive us from happiness, because He is only good. Only we ourselves can do that. It only us turning away. All He can do is love us.

[@IONov990]

@@annette4660 I think people sin because they are in search of happiness

[@annette4660]

@@IONov990 I agree.

[@STRENGTHFROMABOVE]

God is saying. your steps are ordered by God from here on. Nothing stands as a barrier on your way of progress. every generational curse will be removed from you life. the mark on you has exempted you from failures and let downs

[@funnynickline]

It is a distant mirror indeed from now on till to the next of the generations to come until then we all meet this story in reality in God's time amen🙏☦️🙇‍♂☦️🙏.

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Muchas gracias, saludos desde la ciudad de México

[@bottomhead2518]

Yeah, eyes that see good and evil are blind to the innocence beyond, and forgiveness becomes very difficult.

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Thank you Word on Fire for producing this! Wonderful!

[@francesbernard2445]

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

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This show brings me peace.

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Thank you for your very helpful comments on how to use the first book of the Bible as a basis for a living faith in God in our times.

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[@notdonaldst]

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.

[@DrewMureiko]

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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The glory of the father is the child fully alive, to point out an earthly reflection of the divine truth.

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Thanks Bishop Barron for the great lesson on Genesis.

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Thank you Bishop Barron! Dios mabalos po!

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Thank you, Bishop and Brandon.

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I love this series. It helps me see more into what I have read. It clarifies information for me and it keep me wanting to learn more about God and his Creation.

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God gave us everything we need to live, but he also gave us free will, the ability to turn away in spite of everything he gave to us.

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So practical and informative - many thanks for your contribution.

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Looking forward!

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Waiting for this

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This is very enlightening. God bless the both of you!

[@OrigenisAdamantios]

So good! Εὐλογεῖτε! 1 Corinthians 15:28 - “And, when all things have been subordinated to him, then will the Son himself also be subordinated to the one who has subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.”

[@johnkalbert2014]

Jesus

[@AmericanGuy7654]

What Bishop Barron says about suffering and original sin seems to me fundamental in the Buddhist-Christian dialogue. As far as I am aware Buddhism begins with the premise “all life is suffering” and falls into the mistake Bishop Barron mentions of beginning with the negative. Suffering implies that there is a good, a positive good, that is not being attained, whether that is physical suffering or mental suffering. In a way this a point of contact between Buddhism and Christianity, the Buddhist recognition of suffering is like original sin, a recognition that the world as it exists is not the way it should be. However by starting off a negative footing, Buddhism, as it seems to me at least, can’t articulate a positive vision of how the world will be set aright, aside from a passive acceptance of suffering and a turn toward interiority. Again I am no expert on Buddhism, and hope I am not misrepresenting its doctrines.

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Thanks so much for providing this. Blessings and peace.

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Thank you !! Excellent explanation

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Thank You Bishop Barron you are a real gem and hat's off to your knowlege and the way you explained it!GBU!

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[@jtlp493]

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)

[@elizabethM85]

Powerful breaking open of Genisis. I absolutely love this

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“They may have had a Theophany of extraordinary power?” Big clue right there for the taking!