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Exploring the Old Testament 14: Faith, Circumcision, and the Near-Far Framework
James Spencer and Ashish Varma turn to Romans 3 to clarify what covenant membership was and wasn't designed to do — arguing that circumcision was never meant to confer righteousness, only proximity…
Exploring the Old Testament 13: Circumcision, Covenant, and the Priesthood of a Nation
James Spencer and Ashish Varma work through Genesis 17 — the deepening of the Abrahamic covenant, the name changes, and the sign of circumcision — arguing that circumcision is less about ethnic…
Exploring the Old Testament 12: Abram, the Heir Problem, and the Covenant That Unfolds
James Spencer and Ashish Varma trace the Abrahamic covenant from its roots in the aftermath of Babel through Genesis 15, unpacking why Abram's real concern isn't military victory but who comes after…
Exploring the Old Testament 11: From Babel to Abraham — How the Covenants Fit Together
James Spencer and Ashish Varma map the relationship between the Noahic covenant and those that follow — arguing that the Noahic covenant functions as the broad-scope framework for all of creation…
Exploring the Old Testament 10: Evil, Aroma, and the God Who Draws Near
James Spencer and Ashish Varma dig into Genesis 8 and the nature of human evil — arguing that "the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth" is less about moral depravity in the extreme sense…
Title: Exploring the Old Testament 9: Covenant, Dominion, and the Second-Best Option
James Spencer and Ashish Varma work through Genesis 9, tracing how the post-flood blessing recontextualizes rather than replaces the original creation mandate — and why dominion exercised through the…
Exploring the Old Testament 8: The Flood as Decreation — Technology, Obedience, and the Soft Reboot
James Spencer and Ashish Varma read the flood narrative not as a Sunday school felt-board story but as a decreation event — God folding the waters back over a humanity that has multiplied evil rather…
Exploring the Old Testament 7: Cain and Abel — A Power Play, Not a Fit of Rage
James Spencer and Ashish Varma reframe the Cain and Abel narrative as a calculated power move against God rather than a story of sibling jealousy — and trace how it pulls through the self-sufficiency…
Exploring the Old Testament 6: The Fall and Its Consequences: Reading Genesis 3 Without the Apple
James Spencer and Ashish Varma work through Genesis 3 — what the serpent is actually doing, why Eve's independent judgment is the real crisis, and how the post-fall curses are better understood as…
Exploring the Old Testament 5: God, Land, and People: The Organizing Triangle of Biblical Theology
James Spencer and Ashish Varma introduce a framework that runs from Genesis to Revelation — the triangular relationship between God, humanity, and the land — tracing how the tree of life at the…
Exploring the Old Testament 4: Naked and Unashamed: Vulnerability, Dependence, and the Logic of Genesis 2
James Spencer and Ashish Varma pick up where they left off in Genesis 2, tracing how human vulnerability — far from being a flaw — was the very mechanism of flourishing in the pre-fall order. From…
Exploring the Old Testament 3: The Breath of Life: Work, Worship, and the World of Genesis 2
James Spencer and Ashish Varma open Genesis 2, tracing how the toledot formula bridges the creation account into the story of humanity's vocation — and why the Hebrew words for "work and keep" carry…
Exploring the Old Testament 2: Made in God's Image: Blessing, Dominion, and the Calling to Be Gardeners
James Spencer and Ashish Varma unpack two of Genesis 1's most misread concepts — the image of God and the blessing to fill and subdue the earth. Drawing on ancient Near Eastern kingship imagery and…
Exploring the Old Testament 1: Creation, Sovereignty, and Wisdom: Reading Genesis 1
James Spencer and Ashish Varma open a new series on Old Testament theology with Genesis 1:1–2:3, examining how the text establishes God's sovereignty, wisdom, and love as the framework for all of…
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