Episodes
July 25, 2025
This One Goes to 11: Rethinking Referent and Affirmation - Episode 137
What if the Bible talks about things it doesn’t actually affirm? That’s the question John and J. Harvey Walton explore in their referent/affirmation hermeneutic—a method that seeks to distinguish between what Scripture uses c...
July 17, 2025
Our Interpretive Toolkit: Framing How We Read Scripture - Episode 136
Venturing deep into the world of biblical interpretation—exploring the methods that shape how we read Scripture, how we understand righteousness, holiness, and obedience, and why John Walton's work continues to spark both adm...
July 11, 2025
Torah and the Two Ways: Wisdom unto Life, Not Legal Death - Episode 135
This episode of Genesis Marks the Spot centers on an example of biblical theology, reframing how we understand law—not as rigid legislation, but as wisdom anchored in covenant relationship. Drawing from The Lost World of the ...
July 4, 2025
Torah on Trial: Rethinking Law in Ancient Israel - Episode 134
This illuminating episode of Genesis Marks the Spot dives deep into the nature of biblical law—just in time for the Fourth of July. What is law, really? Is the Torah a legislative code or a curated teaching tool for ethical f...
June 27, 2025
Carved in Covenant: Bronze Age Sinai and the Making of a People - Episode 133
Walk through the ancient Near Eastern background of biblical covenants to arrive at the archetypal Sinai covenant. Picking up where Episode 132 left off, Carey explores the formal elements of Late Bronze Age treaties and how...
June 20, 2025
Covenants Before Contracts: The Ancient Near Eastern Frame - Episode 132
In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey takes listeners beyond prooftexts and into the deep structure of biblical meaning by asking: What kind of thing is a covenant? Drawing from ancient Near Eastern treaty forms, ...
June 13, 2025
Covenant Theology, Baptism, and Biblical Imagery - Episode 131
What connects wine, wrath, baptism, and the flood? This powerful bridge episode toes out into the deep waters of systematic theology that will lead to biblical theology in order to explore how God's covenantal signs—from the ...
June 6, 2025
The Cups of the Cross: Cana, Gethsemane, and Golgotha - Episode 130
What does it mean that Jesus drank the cup—and said he would not drink again until the kingdom came? What is that mysterious cup that Jesus didn't want to drink? In this final episode on alcohol in Scripture and with the help...
May 30, 2025
The Cup of Wisdom: Drinking in Creation’s Order - Episode 129
In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey uncorks the surprising biblical connection between wine and wisdom. What begins as a reflection on the interconnection of John Walton’s New Explorations and a survey of wisdom...
May 23, 2025
Goodnight, Adam. Goodnight, Eve. Goodnight, Functional Ontology. - Episode 128
Reviewing John Walton’s newest entry in the Lost World series: New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis . With clarity and candor, Carey explores Walton’s theological evolution—particularly the move from “functional” to ...
May 16, 2025
Wrath and the gods: Deut. 32 and the Mirror of Judgment - Episode 127
What does it mean when the Bible speaks of gods being judged? Is wrath just God's angry impulse, or is it the just consequence of misplaced allegiance? In this episode, Carey dives deep into Deuteronomy 32 , reading it not ju...
May 9, 2025
The Cup of Wrath: Inheriting Your Desire at the Banquet - Episode 126
What does it mean to drink the cup of wrath ? And why does Scripture use the language of vineyards, vintage, and wine to describe divine judgment? In this richly layered episode, Carey walks us through the biblical vineyard—f...
May 2, 2025
Between the Vines: Soil, Symbol, and the Cups of Consequence - Episode 125
In this mid-series episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey takes a step between the Cup of Joy and the Cup of Wrath—into the vineyard itself. With the help of Mark Scarlata’s Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible an...
April 25, 2025
The Cup of Joy: Wine, Blessing, and Sacred Celebration - Episode 124
In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , we trace the theme of wine as joy in Scripture—what it means to share in divine abundance, and how the vine tells a story of provision, blessing, and worship. This is the first of (...
April 18, 2025
Wine, Judgment, and the Second Adam: Rethinking Noah’s Fall - Episode 123
In this compelling follow-up to our discussion on Noah and the relief of the cursed ground, we examine the puzzling aftermath: Noah’s drunkenness. Was it a relapse into chaos—or something else entirely?
Come walk through the deep theological and symbolic threads tied to wine in Scripture. Dra…
April 11, 2025
Eden to Ararat: A Ground-clearing Look at the Genesis Curse - Episode 122
Did the Flood reverse the curse of the ground? Carey builds a compelling case for a concept that’s often overlooked—or outright dismissed: that the Flood narrative in Genesis 6–9 isn't just about judgment, but also about restoration—specifically the cleansing of the cursed ground from Genesis 3. …
April 4, 2025
Devil in the Details: Rest, Relief, and Frame Semantics - Episode 121
In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot, we finally dive into a long-anticipated topic: frame semantics—a cognitive linguistic tool that could revolutionize how we approach biblical texts. From exploring how the word "rest" is more than just a Sabbath nap, to rethinking the identity of the Satan …
March 28, 2025
Noah’s Name and the Rest of the Story - Episode 120
You know his name. You know the flood. You might even think you know why Noah was given that name in the first place. But what if I told you… there's some strange artifacts with ‘rest’ in Genesis 5:29? What if the comfort Lamech longed for wasn’t exactly what Noah delivered? Or maybe it was more t…
March 21, 2025
Twu Wuv, Twoil, and the "Curse" of Genesis 3:16 - Episode 119
As You Wish… Or Maybe Not? Rethinking Genesis 3:16.
Genesis 3:16 has been a theological battleground for centuries—was Eve cursed? Does this verse establish male rule? And why did the ESV change its translation again? In this episode, we dive deep into the Hebrew text, ancient interpretations, a…
March 14, 2025
There and Back Again: Scripture in Both Directions, with Spencer Owen - Episode 118
A conversation with Spencer Owen about reading the Bible from the OT to the NT and from the NT to the OT. Do we need Jesus in order to read the Old Testament?
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March 7, 2025
Slavery: The Upside-Down Kingdom - Episode 117
Isn't it a bit weird that Christians are called slaves? Isn't slavery a bad thing?
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Feb. 28, 2025
Tyranno(saurus) Rex: Do We Only Rule Animals? - Episode 116
Genesis 1:28 - Is human rule meant only for animals and not for other humans? What is biblical government? Tying in some modern social psychology with Jonathan Haidt's moral foundation theory, I offer an encouragement to political engagement in a self-giving way rather than engaging in one-up-man…
Feb. 21, 2025
Not to 50!: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? - Episode 115
What if we've all got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance? How are guilt and justice portrayed in the Bible, especially in relation to God's character? What does shame have to do with (legal) guilt? How do these concepts develop? And...why does Genesis 1-11 seem so Mesopotamian??
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Feb. 14, 2025
Nakedness, Shame, and Guilt - Episode 114
What's up with shame in Genesis 2 but not 3, and why were Adam and Eve naked in the garden? What were the garments of skin (and what's with these garments of glory)?
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