Today ends the introductions to the Bible in a Year podcast series with this third, and last, installment! Fr. Mike Schmitz talks with Jeff Cavins about the early world as it is described in Genesis.
We will see figures like Adam & Eve and their children, along with the Great Deceiver, the Serpent. The Fall of our primordial parents brings sin into the world, and everything changes. We will become estranged from God and Creation by sin. Death also begins to stalk humanity, claiming each one of us at some point in our lives. Growing strife erupts as sin takes hold in the world after Adam & Eve, on up to the days of Noah.
The BIY Companion, Vol I, tells what happens:
The entire world is destroyed by the Flood. Noah, his wife, and his three sons and their wives are saved in the Ark, which is a type (or, figure) of the Church - a place of protection and life-sustaining provision. Finally, due to sin, one language becomes many at the Tower of Babel. (p. 5)
And it all starts tomorrow on Day 1. The Tolkienesque titles will stop, I promise! I couldn't resist for these intro days...
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