In the beginning, God came to dwell with man.

The Bible's first pages, read the way the rest of the Bible reads them: the founding of a covenant world, told in the language of a temple.

We affirm that God created the material universe. The question this site asks is different: what is Genesis 1–3 actually about?

What does "create" do across the rest of Scripture? Every occurrence counted, every claim checkable against the text.

The garden is described in the vocabulary of the tabernacle. See the parallels laid side by side and judge them yourself.

Federal headship, sonship, and the family line Genesis actually traces from the garden forward.