IFS Genesis Creation Course

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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy

Course Introduction

Genesis 1 is often treated as a puzzle to solve or a problem to defend. Debates about science, timelines, and literalism tend to dominate the conversation, leaving little room to hear what the text itself is actually doing.

This course exists to return Genesis creation to its original register.

Genesis Creation explores the opening chapter of Scripture as ancient, poetic, and theological literature. Rather than reading Genesis 1 as a scientific account, the course approaches it as a carefully structured proclamation about God, reality, and human vocation. It is informed by historical context and thoughtfully shaped by an Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed lens, not as therapy and not as psychology replacing faith, but as a way of noticing how meaning, order, fear, awe, and belonging are woven into the text.

This course is for those who want to encounter Genesis creation with depth and reverence without flattening it into modern categories or forcing it to answer questions it was never written to address.

What This Course Offers

This course invites you to read Genesis creation as a sacred composition rather than a technical explanation, one that speaks through rhythm, repetition, and symbolism.

Inside the course, you’ll explore:

Why Genesis opens as poetry rather than prose
What “In the beginning” meant to ancient listeners
How chaos, light, and order function theologically, not mechanically
Why creation unfolds like a temple blueprint
How ancient cosmology shaped the biblical imagination
Why Sabbath is the climax of creation, not an afterthought

Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how human experience appears within the creation story—how awe arises, how fear meets mystery, how order soothes chaos, and how meaning is received rather than manufactured.

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: In the Beginning

Lesson 1: Why Genesis Begins with a Poem
Lesson 2: What “In the Beginning” Really Meant to the Ancients
Lesson 3: The Earth Was Formless and Void — What That Means
Lesson 4: Let There Be Light — But No Sun?
Lesson 5: The Days of Creation Mirror a Temple Blueprint
Lesson 6: The Sky Dome and Ancient Cosmology
Lesson 7: The Image of God — A Royal, Not Just Personal Phrase
Lesson 8: Male and Female, He Created Them
Lesson 9: The Garden of Eden as a Temple
Lesson 10: The Sabbath as the Climax of Creation

How This Course Is Different

You won’t find:

Scientific harmonization or timeline debates
Myth-busting framed as deconstruction
Abstract theology detached from the text

You will find:

Careful attention to ancient literary design
Historical context that clarifies meaning without dilution
An IFS-informed lens that helps illuminate human response while honoring Scripture as Scripture

Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective integrations designed to support slow, attentive engagement rather than hurried conclusions.