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Genesis Marks the Spot

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

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Nov. 21, 2025

Between Glory and Ashes 2: God Is a Consuming Fire - Episode 154

In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey continues tracing the theme of fire through Scripture—this time by pairing it with the biblical theme of glory and the language of God as a “consuming fire” and “jealous God.”...
Nov. 14, 2025

Between Glory and Ashes: Fire at the Boundary - Episode 153

This episode launches a new mini-series on the theme of fire in Scripture and how it works as more than just a judgment or “end times” metaphor. Fire marks boundaries, tests fitness for nearness, guards holy space, and signal...
Nov. 7, 2025

From Magic to Presence: Prayer, Baptism, and Protection - Episode 152

In this sweeping synthesis episode, Carey zooms out from Mesopotamian exorcism texts to contrast ancient magic/technique with the Bible’s holiness/presence frame. We explore how Scripture attributes sickness and calamity to G...
Oct. 31, 2025

Purity before Sinai 3: One Goat to Clean Them All - Episode 151

Concluding the mini-series reading from Udug-hul (Udug-hul) Tablet 12 , a Mesopotamian exorcism/purification text, and tracing how a single goat in this ritual ends up doing several jobs—substitute, container of breath, apotr...
Oct. 24, 2025

Purity before Sinai 2: Sacred Technology of Cosmic Repair - Episode 150

This episode continues last week’s deep dive (Ep. 149) into Udug-hul Tablet 12 , exploring how ancient Mesopotamians understood purity, sacred space, demons, and ritual —and how that compares (and collides) with the Bible’s w...
Oct. 17, 2025

Purity Before Sinai: Subverting Storm Demons - Episode 149

Today we step before Leviticus into Sumerian and Akkadian worlds to see how ancient people thought about purity, danger, and the sacred—and how Israel both echoes and upends that world. We sample Udug-hul exorcism tablets (in...

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Nov. 20, 2025

God is a Consuming Fire: How “Glory” and “Fire” Frames Help You Read …

If you’ve been around church for a while, you’ve heard about God's glory, maybe scratched your head wondering what, exactly it was. And you've probably heard the line: “Our God is a consuming fire.” For some of us, that…

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Sept. 15, 2025

Not the Author of Evil: How the Bible Holds Sovereignty and Agency To…

In episode 60, Who Causes Sickness? - Episode 060. I explored the question: "Who/what causes sickness?" One perspective that has been prevalent throughout Christian history is the notion that Satan, as a biblical entity, may be involved in causing s…

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Sept. 11, 2025

Two Creation Accounts in Genesis 1-2?

Are Genesis 1 and 2 separate creation accounts?  Is Genesis 2 a zoomed-in sequel?  Or might there be something else entirely going on?  It’s a fair question, and one that has animated debates among scholars, theologians, skepti…

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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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