Genesis 9:8-17

Ancient Lens

What can we learn from the historical context?

How did we get here?

When relationships disintegrate and fall apart it is a fair question to ask. The question may come on the brink of disaster or sadly, more often as a postmortem analysis of a relationship too far gone for repair. Like a pebble thrown up by the wheel of a semi truck into the windshield of an oncoming car, the decision of Adam and Eve to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, put the chip into God’s relationship with humanity that over time would shatter the windshield of communion with God. From beautiful promise to broken peace, humanity moves yet further away from their Creator by every decision to choose self over…