Eden Wasn’t Perfect

But most Christians think it was.

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Many confusions about the Biblical story can be traced back to a questionable view of what happens in the first few chapters of Genesis. While it’s nearly ubiquitous for Christians to think that God created a perfect world, that view misunderstands Genesis while at the same time providing an unhelpful framework for properly understanding everything that follows in the Biblical narrative.