Beginnings
Genesis, from creation to Joseph
Fifty chapters that set up everything after them. This path covers the creation accounts, the flood, the call of Abraham, the covenant, and the long Joseph story, with the disputed questions named as disputed.
Built for the days between Sundays
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
What you'll come away with
What this path is for
Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.
Read Genesis 1 and 2 carefully
Two accounts, two purposes, one God. You will know what each is claiming, and where Christians disagree about how the chapters relate to the age of the earth.
Follow the covenant with Abraham
Chapters 12, 15, 17, and 22, read as one developing promise: land, offspring, and blessing for every family on earth.
Handle the difficult narratives
Hagar, Sodom, Dinah, Tamar. Genesis reports appalling things without approving them, and you will learn to tell narration from endorsement.
See why Joseph gets thirteen chapters
The longest single story in Genesis is about providence working through betrayal. You will be able to say what it is doing at the end of the book.
How the tutor works
A tutor, not a search box
The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.
Questions first
Open a passage and Trinity asks what you noticed. Your reading comes first, then the explanation.
Greek and Hebrew, one tap away
Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.
Follow the thread
Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.
Context that clicks
Who wrote it, to whom, and why. Get the background the first readers already knew.
A plan that bends
Miss a week and nobody guilt-trips you. Your plan fits the time you actually have and picks up where you left off.
Bring your doubts
Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.
Pick up the thread
Every session ends with a short recap of what you read and what's worth coming back to.
Every side, fairly told
On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.
The path itself
What you'll study, in order
Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.
Creation
What Genesis 1 is claiming, and what it is not
The seven-day structure
Genesis 2 and the garden
Image of God and human vocation
Where Christians disagree: young earth, old earth, and framework readings
The fracture
Genesis 3 and its consequences
Cain and Abel
The flood, and ancient flood accounts
Noah's covenant and the rainbow
Babel and the scattering
Abraham
The call in chapter 12
Egypt, Lot, and the mess in between
The covenant ceremony in chapter 15
Hagar, Ishmael, and a promise delayed
Sodom, and Abraham's argument with God
The binding of Isaac
Isaac and Jacob
Rebekah, and a bride from far away
Two brothers and a stolen blessing
Jacob at Bethel
Laban, Leah, Rachel, twelve sons
Wrestling at the Jabbok
Joseph
Dreams and a coat
Sold, and sold again
Potiphar's house and prison
Interpreting Pharaoh's dreams
Testing the brothers
You meant evil, God meant it for good
I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.
I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.
I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.
Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.
I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.
I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.
I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.
I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.
I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.
I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.
I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.
Before you start
Questions people ask about this path
Christians answer this differently and it is a genuine dispute, not a settled one. Young earth, old earth, and literary framework readings all have serious defenders. Trinity lays out what each claims and what it costs, and does not vote.
Also disputed. The text has been read both ways, and the ancient Near Eastern parallels matter to the discussion. Trinity presents both readings and the evidence each leans on.
It is the hardest chapter in the book and the path does not rush it. You will look at what the text says, what it withholds, and how Jewish and Christian readers have wrestled with it for a very long time.
About eight weeks at three sessions a week. Genesis rewards slow reading, so Trinity keeps sessions short rather than pushing you through ten chapters at a time.
Start this path today
The first unit is free, and you do not need to know anything going in. Trinity will ask what you noticed before it explains a thing.
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