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The Book of Genesis Course: What You Were Never Taught


A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy





Genesis is one of the most familiar books in the Bible and one of the least carefully taught.

Most people encounter Genesis as a collection of stories meant to explain origins or reinforce moral lessons. Over time, its layered structure, ancient literary design, and theological depth are often flattened into debates about science, timelines, or simplistic answers to complex questions.

This course exists to slow the text back down.


The Book of Genesis: What You Were Never Taught explores Genesis as ancient, intentional Scripture written with sophistication, pattern, and purpose. It approaches Genesis through careful historical context and an Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed lens, not as therapy and not as psychology replacing faith, but as a way of noticing how trust, fear, shame, protection, and rivalry operate within the biblical story itself.


This course is for readers who want to engage Genesis honestly, without abandoning faith, flattening the text, or forcing modern assumptions onto ancient Scripture.



What This Course Offers

This course invites you to read Genesis as it was written to be read not as a scientific timeline or a moral scoreboard, but as sacred literature shaped by meaning, repetition, and relationship.

Inside the course, you’ll explore:

  • Why Genesis opens with two creation accounts — intentionally

  • How the image of God functioned as a political and theological statement

  • Why the seven days of creation mirror a temple, not a timeline

  • What the serpent represents in Genesis — and what it does not

  • How genealogies function as theological and prophetic maps

  • Why sibling rivalry drives the structure of the entire book


Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how the human inner world shows up in Genesis how trust fractures, how shame hides, how protection emerges, and how relationship is strained and restored across generations.


This approach does not replace theology. It does not turn Scripture into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.



Course Outline

Chapter 1: Genesis — What You Were Never Taught

  • Lesson 1: Why Genesis Has Two Creation Accounts

  • Lesson 2: The Image of God Was a Political Statement

  • Lesson 3: The Seven Days Mimic a Temple, Not a Timeline

  • Lesson 4: The Serpent Isn’t Satan — and Never Was in Genesis

  • Lesson 5: Why Cain’s Offering Was Rejected

  • Lesson 6: Genealogies Aren’t Boring — They’re Prophetic Maps

  • Lesson 7: Why God Keeps Asking Obvious Questions

  • Lesson 8: There Are Two Falls in Genesis, Not One

  • Lesson 9: Why Genesis Ends in Egypt, Not the Promised Land

  • Lesson 10: Why the Story Is Told Through Brothers



How This Course Is Different

You won’t find:

  • Literalist harmonization of conflicting timelines

  • Reduction of Genesis to psychology or self-help

  • Abstract theology disconnected from the text

You will find:

  • Careful attention to ancient literary structure

  • Historical and cultural context that clarifies meaning

  • A respectful IFS-informed lens that helps illuminate human response without reframing Scripture as therapy


Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective integrations designed to support slow, thoughtful engagement with the text.



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