{"id":13944,"date":"2026-01-30T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13944"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:31:30","slug":"the-creation-and-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/the-creation-and-the-fall","title":{"rendered":"The Creation (and the Fall)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we don\u2019t understand the beginning of the story, we will misunderstand everything that comes after it. We won\u2019t understand: who we really are, why the world is so broken, or why Jesus had to come.<\/p>\n<p>Genesis 1\u20133 is not just the start of the Bible, it\u2019s the foundation of reality. If we get the beginning wrong, the rest of the story won\u2019t make sense. But if we get this right, suddenly the beauty we long for and the brokenness we live with both have an explanation. And so does our hope.<\/p>\n<p>From creation to consummation, the Bible tells one great story of a good and holy God rescuing His broken world through Jesus. THE STORY begins\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the book of Genesis, Moses recorded the story of how God created the heavens and the earth, creating humanity in His own image and calling it very good, yet after humanity\u2019s rebellion, He promised a coming offspring who would defeat the serpent who tempted them to fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13945,"template":"","tags":[2022,2097],"series":[2988],"scripture-book":[1268],"scripture-chapter":[1334,1335,1336],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13944","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bible","tag-story","series-the-story","scripture-book-genesis","scripture-chapter-1334","scripture-chapter-1335","scripture-chapter-1336","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13946,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13944\/revisions\/13946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}