Session 7: The Stuff We're Made Of

In Genesis 6-8, couched within the tale of a grand cataclysmic reset that fails to alter the human make up (Gen. 6:5 and 8:21), we encounter two contrasting options for a humanity suddenly aware of its mortality. There is the way of obsessive planning and the way of walking with God for its own sake. Man the Planner views the entire world as so much raw material to bend to his project of making a name – producing surrogate immortality. Walking with God, by contrast, is engaged in for its own sake and takes the humdrum stuff of everyday life as fit occasion for interacting with God.