Episode 3 — What if the entire Western understanding of salvation rests on a word the Bible never uses?

Genesis does not say Adam was created perfect. It says he was very good.

In this episode, we explore how that distinction reshapes everything:

• Was Adam created finished — or with potential?
• If humanity was perfect, why probation?
• Why command Adam to subdue the earth if creation was already complete?
• Why is Scripture filled with imagery of ascent — Jacob’s ladder, mountains, transformation “from glory to glory”?

We examine:

• The early Church Fathers (Irenaeus, Athanasius, Basil)
• Conditional immortality and participation in divine life
• Augustine’s shift toward inherited guilt
• How Covenantal probation assumes growth
• Calvin ...