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Genesis Marks the Spot

Raiding the ivory tower of biblical theology without ransacking our faith.

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Sept. 5, 2025

Living Water & Covenant Union: Hospitality & Power Struggles - Episode 143

Water flows through Scripture as far more than a backdrop — it carries covenant, hospitality, conflict, and even divine judgment. This episode of Genesis Marks the Spot traces how the Bible uses water as a sign of both intima...
Aug. 29, 2025

Allegiance, Baptism, and the King Jesus Gospel with Matthew Bates - Episode 142

In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey Griffel sits down with Dr. Matthew Bates—New Testament scholar and author of Salvation by Allegiance Alone , Gospel Allegiance , and Beyond the Salvation Wars . Together, they...
Aug. 22, 2025

Adam, Christ, and the Fragile Order - Episode 141

In this follow-up to the discussion of J. Harvey Walton’s dissertation, let’s look closer into his reframing of Eden—not as a perfect paradise but as fragile divine order. Carey pushes back on Walton’s rejection of covenant i...
Aug. 15, 2025

Myth of a Perfect Eden: Chaos, Order, and Divine Space - Episode 140

Was Eden ever the perfect paradise we imagine? Exploring J. Harvey Walton’s groundbreaking dissertation on Genesis 2–4. Walton challenges the familiar Eden–Fall–Redemption narrative, arguing that the text’s original audience ...
Aug. 8, 2025

On This Rock: A Christ-Centered Biblical Theology Community - Episode 139

In this special episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey shares the heart and vision behind her new online community— On This Rock —a distraction-free space for deep Bible study, discipleship, and ministry growth. From the b...
Aug. 1, 2025

Zero Female Nephilim: Violence, Symbolism, and Covenant - Episode 138

Did female Nephilim exist? It's a fascinating question—and one that seems straightforward from a modern lens. But this episode takes you deep into the symbolic, theological, and cultural frameworks of the ancient world to exp...

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Sept. 2, 2025

A Divine Council Worldview Bibliography

The “divine council” refers to the biblical and ancient Near Eastern idea that God presides over a heavenly assembly of spiritual beings.  Far from a fringe concept, this imagery appears throughout the Hebrew Bible and Second Templ…

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July 31, 2025

Why 1 Enoch Is Not in the Canon of Scripture

So here's a common question from people who follow Dr. Michael Heiser's work, or really any of the current flurry of interest in 1 Enoch: Why isn’t 1 Enoch in our Bibles? I mean, after all...you've found out that it's quoted in the Bible and…

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July 29, 2025

Stop Ruining Numbers: A Theological Lament

This is just a general rumination (and frankly, lament) because I was led to go on a bit of a research side-trail today due to an interesting question about the Babylonian base-60 number system and if the Bible has anything to do with that.  (Q…

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Carey Griffel

Carey Griffel has a Masters of Biblical Studies with Redemption Seminary and is passionate about teaching about the Bible from a biblical theology perspective with a healthy dose of creative thinking thrown in to the mix.
Carey can be found on Instagram and Facebook. She has her own Facebook discussion group for her podcast and is an administrator and moderator of several other FB groups, such as Reading Genesis 50 Times and Divine Council Worldview, official group of Dr. Michael Heiser.

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