John 11:4-5

When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

From Background Notes [BN] for July 14^th & 15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Now in the case of Lazarus (and his sisters), the shape of this love looks complicated. After all, Jesus waits two more days before going to Bethany. But in his waiting, Jesus determines that Lazarus will become far more to the world than just a sick man made well.

1 Cor 15:3-4

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

From Background Notes [BN] for July 14^th & 15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The creed reminds us, that “His only Son our Lord” “suffered … was dead and buried … descended into the grave [death].” The human journey is a pilgrimage through life and into death. What the Good News of Jesus tells us…

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment

From Background Notes [BN] for July 14^th & 15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Our suffering, loss, sickness, failure, and sadness are but the signs of mortality. This is a study about death, the inevitable human reality.

Genesis 3:4-5

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

From Background Notes [BN] for July 7^th & 8^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

As far as the humans in this story are concerned, they are dealing with a creature (wild animal), inferior to themselves, that they encountered in the garden God provisioned for them.

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

From Background Notes [BN] for July 7^th & 8^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The ancient texts of Genesis depict human men and women as naturally formed to be toward each other, and the degree to which they are able to live out the richness of that relationship rests with their awareness of each other as formed this way by God.

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning —the sixth day.

From Background Notes [BN] for July 7^th & 8^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Scholars who interact with both science and theology suggest the anthropic principle, that everything about the earliest origins of the universe point to the sustenance of human beings in it. The world has been made for sustaining human beings, and human beings have been made for…

Genesis 3:9 KJV

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

From Background Notes [BN] for July 7^th & 8^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

“Where” is, then, the crucial word in the question, and it has to do less with location and more with condition.