Sunday’s Coming

Abundance and limits (Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7)

Like the first humans, I am far from divine. 

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The Garden of Eden is a place of paradox, containing both great abundance and strict limits. It is an apt image for God's providence and for God's boundaries.