GOD SAID, "WHERE ARE YOU?"
by Steve Zeisler
In the summer of 1971 I was a sort of low-grade hippie. I had hair down
below my shoulders. Jack Crabtree and I lived in an adobe hut near the summit
of King's Mountain, just off Skyline. There was no running water. The nearest
neighbors we had lived in a teepee deeper in the woods, and they often didn't
wear clothes. That was an interesting era, with love-ins, be-ins, flower
children, rejection of technology, and a desire to get back to the land.
Looking back, we can see a longing for Eden in a lot of the thinking of
that era. You might remember the song Joni Mitchell sang about Woodstock:
"We are star dust,
We are golden,
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the Garden."
That's the subject before us now as we study through the first three
chapters of Genesis. The opening verses of chapter 3 are about the deception
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