Back to the Garden Podcast

In episode 5, Shai Beloved introduces a special guest who shares her perspective of growing up Christian and what intimacy with God looked like for her. Together they dive into a discussion about how Jesus actually came for sinners and the one thing that makes Christianity different than other religions. They explore themes of Grace, redemption, and the beauty of intimacy with God that brings us back to the garden!

In this week’s episode Shai Beloved tells her story of how God found her. She opens up about what her life was like before, and how God literally chased her down and met her in a personal way. 

In this week’s episode, Shai Beloved quickly recaps about the original intimacy of the garden, and the sin that caused the separation between God and His creation. Then, she dives in to the need for atonement, explaining what that means and why the Old Testament law was necessary. She follows this with the good news of Jesus coming in the New Testament and what that meant for the system of sacrifice, and why it’s still the good news of redemption for us today.

In this second episode, Shai Beloved continues talking on the theme of intimacy with God, how humanity had it, and what happened to disrupt it. She discusses the reality of human nature and a broken world and why there was a separation between God and His creation. She also introduces the topic of Gods plan for redemption to bring us back to the Garden.

In this first episode, host Shai Beloved shares a bit about herself, why Back to the Garden, and what kind of content you can expect from future episodes. She also discusses the difference between Deism and Theism and what that means for us personally in relation to a divine God. She explores questions like: “ Is God interested in us personally? and, “What does intimacy with God even mean?”.