Playlist: Imagining the Garden of Eden (sermon series)
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part One)
Using Imagination in Bible StudyThe imagination enables mankind to envision both beneficial and harmful purposes. Imagination is a gift from God that can be used positively or negatively.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Two)
Setting Up the SceneThe best use of imagination would be to assimilate events, principles, lessons, and doctrine from scripture, transforming us into the image of God.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Three)
Dirt and BreathWhatever life is, it derives from a non-material, non-physical, imparted life-force having a spiritual source. God creates and sustains life, as well as ends it.
Imagining The Garden of Eden (Part Four)
God Plants A GardenThe Garden of Eden was probably prepared or planted after Adam was created so he could see God at work, providing him an example of diligence and satisfaction.
Imagining The Garden of Eden (Part Five)
Eastward in EdenEating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil opened the minds of our first parents to evil, the experiential knowledge that comes from sin.
Imagining The Garden of Eden (Part Six)
The River of EdenThe rivers identified in the Garden of Eden were given in the context of pre-flood geography, making the use of modern topographical maps irrelevant.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Seven)
The Nuach RestBoth Shabbat rest (ceasing from activity) and nuach rest (pleasantly creating) are necessary for the proper keeping of the Sabbath.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Eight)
Tend and KeepThe Garden of Eden was the perfect place for mankind to get its start, a place where Adam and Eve could become acquainted with God and developed godliness.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Nine)
Eating The FruitThe command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is universal and for all time, applying to each and every one of us.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Ten)
Death and Being AloneThe statement, 'it is not good for man to be alone,' is the first declaration that something was not good. Being alone denotes separateness.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Eleven)
A Compatible HelperGod's selection of Eve as a companion to Adam took into account the need for a helper as a counterpart—like himself, but standing opposite as complementary.
Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Twelve)
Bone of My BoneAlthough authority over the family unit was given to the husband, man and woman were created to be complementary and supplementary to one another.