5/27/2018 session 9

session 9: What does the Garden of Eden have to do with us? session 10: Bait and switch? session 11: What is the true source of the brokenness around us?

Amazing Facts about the Earth Africa’s Sahara Desert covers about one-third of Africa and is constantly growing. The Earth is not actually round. It’s slightly flattened at the north and south poles and is called an oblate spheroid. Pass the salt? If you could evaporate all the ocean water and spread the remaining salt over all the land on Earth, you would have a 500-foot layer of salt. About 1 million earthquakes happen around the world each year, the majority of which are never registered. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 136 degrees in Azizia, Libya in 1922.

session 9

1. What did God give Adam and Eve in the garden? Genesis 1:28–31 Genesis 2:8–15

2. What was the purpose of God’s good gifts? Genesis 1:28–31 Genesis 2:8–15

3. What was required of Adam and Eve? Genesis 2:16–17 Revelation 22:1–3, 14

God’s good and generous character and our place in So, what does the Garden of Eden have to do with us? It teaches us about God’s good and generous character and our place in the story he created for us.

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