What Is Goodness in the Bible? (GH) | Ep 117

What is goodness in the Bible?In this Greenhouse episode, Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc continue the conversation from Episode 116, “What Is Love in the Bible?” That episode offered a working definition for Season 6: love is seeking someone’s goodness based on God’s ideas. Episode 117 presses into the question underneath that definition: what do we mean by goodness?The conversation begins in Genesis 1, where God repeatedly calls creation good, and then very good. But what happens after Genesis 3? Is creation still good? Are human beings still good in any sense? Or has sin so corrupted everything that goodness only exists somewhere else, someday later?Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc explore original goodness, the corruption of sin, the goodness of creation, the image of God, and the danger of reducing people to “dirty rotten sinners” without also remembering that God made human beings with glory, value, and purpose. Sin fractures relationship, but it does not erase the goodness of what God made or His desire to redeem and restore it.They also discuss the phrase “Love is love,” the problem of moral relativism, religious formulas, Romans 8:28, tragedy, pastoral care, cohabitation, Zacchaeus, and the mysterious way Jesus seeks goodness in particular people and situations. Love and goodness are not simplistic. Jesus does not operate by formula. He loves with wisdom, patience, truth, compassion, and stunning relational shrewdness.This episode helps set the groundwork for Season 6 as Soil & Roots explores the complex, beautiful, surprising Jesus — the One who defines goodness because He is good.Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠https://soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/