Halting Toward Zion

Fall of man

event · 17 episodes
229For the Love of Storytelling - Featuring Nate Morgan Locke, the Reformed Mythologist 10 Nov 2025 28:54¶ 90 “When I’m talking about creativity and storytelling, often I’ll go back to Adam and Eve’s first creative work post-fall. The very first thing that…” 29:56¶ 92 “Those coverings may have been beautiful, they may have been amazing, but they were not sufficient. It requires the Lord to make coverings through…” 12:14¶ 42 “It’s only after Adam and Eve sin that the barrier between heaven and earth is essentially created, the threshold with the flaming sword of…”
176The Effects of Sin 15 Jan 2024 4:45¶ 16 “As Christians we believe this is history and not mythology. There was a real flesh and blood woman who stood before a real tree…” 0:57¶ 4 “There are two things we have to address. One is to speak to our brothers in Christ with that question. Are we adopting, as…” 9:58¶ 30 “Some people have been surprised at this. “You mean she was sinning before she ate?” Well, of course. Do you think her hand just…”
175Be Fruitful and Multiply 11 Jan 2024 32:30¶ 107 “In order for this to work there is one thing that is absolutely essential, and that is that man must learn to live by…” 32:56¶ 108 “That brings us beyond to, “So, when man fell into sin did God abort the plan?” Did God say, in effect, “It was a…” 32:13¶ 106 “It would have embraced all of life and all of their activity and everything they did, and everything would be worship and everything would…”
154Dry Bones 23 Jan 2023 21:28¶ 73 “Chapter 3. Eve before the tree is being bombarded with intellectual arguments to push her out of her state of innocence into a state…” 22:24¶ 75 “But I think we need to be careful there because Eve, and then Adam later, when they turned their backs on God, when they…” 22:55¶ 77 “Yeah. That’s where she cut her ties to the life that’s in God. Then what? Some people are surprised when I point out, “You…”
143The Point of No Return 7 Nov 2022 2:14¶ 13 “Eliminate all the apples, yeah. And although yes, we planned to skip to the exodus, it may be well just to ponder here a…” 2:34¶ 14 “If we side with Adam and Eve at this point and say, “Yeah, why didn’t you share, God? It’s actually your fault because you’re…” 2:55¶ 15 “If we can’t see the problem there with such an attitude, then there’s really not much point in going further. How dare God condemn…”
135Conspiracy Theory 12 Sep 2022 15:05¶ 50 “So when we come to Genesis 3, we witness the first conspiracy in human history. It’s not a happy one. Satan sets forth his…” 15:23¶ 51 “Now, is she thinking, “Yeah, me and the serpent, we’re going to be best buds.” I don’t think so. And Satan is not saying,…” 15:48¶ 52 “The old poets had it wrong. Milton had it wrong. This is not Eve seducing Adam to “Come into this little clique with me…”
126The Princess 11 Jul 2022 21:29¶ 58 “Yes, it came from the fall of our first parents, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the catechism says, but it does not say that…” 22:01¶ 59 “The old interpretations like, “Well, Adam ate of the fruit because he realized that Eve was lost to him, and the only thing he…” 22:22¶ 60 “How you feeling, Eve? Feeling any premonitions of sudden death or anything? No? Okay. Yeah, I’ll eat it, sure, because obviously God lied because…”
123Loving Them 20 Jun 2022 26:57¶ 85 “Let’s go back to Eden where all things begin. When the serpent came to Adam and Eve and said, “You shall be as gods,”…” 27:33¶ 86 “God had said, “You’re my image, but you’re my creature.” They wanted to be not simply like God. They wanted to be God. They…” 34:38¶ 104 “Now, in the Fall, man did not become non-human and in that sense not less human, but humanity was corrupted. If man stopped being…”
102The King as Priest 24 Jan 2022 8:01¶ 26 “I’m going to get up on my soapbox here and say this is exactly what Adam did. Saul is in this covenant relationship with…” 9:09¶ 30 “It’s very like Adam in Paradise. Saul is the new Adam for this garden we call Canaan, and this is the beginning of his…” 6:24¶ 22 “This is better than Adam in Paradise. Saul manages to get three things in here. “The people you gave me – if the people…”
69Should Christians Read Fiction? 9 May 2021 33:09¶ 95 “As you look at all of these for any length of time, you see in each case the versus, the conflict, is because of…” 33:50¶ 96 “Think of what stories would be in an unfallen world. We really have trouble here, where there’s no sin, there’s no conflict, no one…” 34:59¶ 101 “The rest of us are sitting here saying, “That’s a story?” On this side of the Fall we don’t understand how story would have…”
43The Secret Theology of Pets 25 Oct 2020 20:49¶ 87 “It’s in this context that the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. In that…” 21:36¶ 91 “It’s an unfallen, harmless, wonderful world full of all kinds of things. Everything was an adventure, excitement, miraculous after a fashion, so here’s one…” 22:02¶ 92 “The beast approaches the woman, the woman her husband, and the husband passes judgement on God. When God comes he reverses the order. He…”
22The Sociology of Dominion 31 May 2020 40:00¶ 153 “That’s a lot of what we’re talking about, and we can draw it back to paradise. Adam is supposed to be the image of…”
11Guilt and Self-Atonement 15 Mar 2020 16:17¶ 57 “Here we have this moment of – I won’t say moral clarity because they’re not clear. Already their thinking is being darkened, stained, and…” 16:45¶ 58 “So first they realized their own nakedness, that is they are conscious of their sexual organs because they realized they’ve just polluted the fountain…” 17:26¶ 59 “When God calls them, Adam comes forward but he lies. “I was afraid because I was naked.” That’s not why he did any of…”
10Myth of Neutrality 8 Mar 2020 2:41¶ 15 “Along comes the serpent and asks a seemingly innocent question. “Has God really said you can’t eat from any of these trees?” but notice…” 3:21¶ 17 “The serpent said, “You will not surely die.” The Hebrew is more like, “Dying you shall die? Not. But God doth know that in…” 3:36¶ 18 “This whole thing is fraught with ethical currents and undertows and overtows and whatever other kind of things you want to throw in there.…”
9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 34:47¶ 94 “Now, having done all that, that’s all great. Before we run out of time we need to start trying to complete the equation because…” 35:53¶ 98 “No, that’s not it. We know that God planned all of these things and for his glory, so what we should see is not…” 37:29¶ 103 “But in the coming of Christ and the redemptive price he paid by his death and in his resurrection, God now has the justification…”
8Man in the Cave 23 Feb 2020 32:31¶ 94 “There’s nothing odd about cave people, except if we don’t want to deal with the reality of sin and the fall and the consequences…” 31:38¶ 91 “There were cities. They were devastated. People fled. They fled out into the wilderness. They ate what they could find. They lived where they…”
2In The Beginning 12 Jan 2020 21:46¶ 80 “These two beings down on the earth thing – this Adam and Eve – they’re gods too. Why don’t I go tell them? We…” 22:08¶ 81 “Eventually when Eve says, “Well, we’ve been told if we eat of this one tree we’ll surely die,” Satan says, “No, you will not…” 28:36¶ 99 “So we’re back in Chapter 3. Eve eats the forbidden fruit and gives it to her husband. They both eat and they both realize…”