Three stories of sibling rivalry. Three stories that teach us so much about the nature of God and what God wants us to do in this world. Three stories of siblings who fight, as so many do, but ultimately the will of God is reconciliation.
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The Book of Genesis has two stories about the creation of the world. These stories are not meant to be science or history, but that doesn’t mean they don’t contain truth. They contain a lot of truth, really important truth that we need to remember: theological truths, moral truths, ontological truths, truth about who we are.
Our first reading today comes from the second creation story. But before we talk about that, we need to talk about the first creation story because these two stories are in dialogue with each other. They are in conversation, and we can’t understand one if we don’t understand the other.
