Genesis Chapter One answered who made the universe. Genesis Chapter Two answers something far more personal — who are you, specifically, to the God who made it?

In Episode 1, we establish the lens for the entire new series. We clear up one of the most common arguments used against the reliability of Genesis — the apparent contradiction between the creation sequences in Chapters One and Two — and replace it with a framework that has held across centuries of Jewish and Christian scholarship: these are not competing accounts. They are two deliberately chosen perspectives, placed side by side so that together they give you a picture neither could give you alone. Chapter One gives you God's power. Chapter Two gives you God's heart.

We also sit with something almost nobody talks about — verses five and six. Before the garden was planted, be ...