IFS Genesis Course: A Sacred Journey Through the Book of Beginnings
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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
Genesis: A Sacred Journey Through the Book of Beginnings Internal Family Systems (IFS) Course
Genesis is one of the most familiar books in the Bible and one of the most misunderstood.
For many, it has been reduced to debates about science, morality tales for children, or distant origin stories disconnected from lived faith. But read carefully, and Genesis reveals something far richer: a sacred text about presence, trust, rupture, mercy, and the God who keeps drawing near.
This free course explores the Book of Genesis through Scripture, historical context, and an Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed lens, not as therapy, but as a way of engaging the text with greater honesty, depth, and compassion.
It is designed for Christians who want to encounter Genesis again with fresh eyes without abandoning faith, flattening Scripture, or forcing modern answers onto ancient stories.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to read Genesis as it was meant to be read, not as a science textbook or a moral scoreboard, but as sacred literature shaped by meaning, memory, and relationship.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
Creation as sacred order and divine dwelling
The image of God as vocation, not sentiment
The Fall as a fracture of trust, not the end of relationship
Judgment stories shaped by mercy and covenant
A God who continues to see, accompany, and bless...even in exile
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how these ancient stories still interact with the human inner world, how trust fractures, how shame hides, how fear protects, and how mercy keeps finding its way through.
This approach does not replace theology. It does not turn Scripture into psychology. It simply offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Beginnings and the Breath of God• Lesson 1: In the Beginning — Creation and the Image of God (Genesis 1–2)• Lesson 2: The Fall — What Really Happened in the Garden (Genesis 3)
Chapter 2: Violence, Mercy, and the Shape of Judgment• Lesson 3: Cain and Abel — Worship, Violence, and the Mark of Mercy (Genesis 4)• Lesson 4: The Flood — Judgment, Covenant, and the Rainbow (Genesis 6–9)
Chapter 3: Scattering and the Seeds of a People• Lesson 5: The Tower of Babel — When Unity Becomes Idolatry (Genesis 11)• Lesson 6: The Call of Abraham — Promise, Land, and Faith That Waits (Genesis 12–17)
Chapter 4: Blessing, Banishment, and the God Who Sees• Lesson 7: Isaac and Ishmael — The God Who Sees the Outcast (Genesis 16, 21–22)
Chapter 5: Identity, Struggle, and the Limp That Blesses• Lesson 8: Jacob the Wrestler — Deceit, Dreams, and a Limp That Blesses (Genesis 25–35)
Chapter 6: Providence in the Pit and the Palace• Lesson 9: Joseph’s Dreams — Betrayal, Providence, and Forgiveness (Genesis 37–45)• Lesson 10: From Famine to Favor — God’s Hand in the Family Line (Genesis 46–50)
How This Course Is Different
Scripture-centered, not speculative
Historically grounded, not academic overload
Theologically serious, not devotional fluff
Informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), without turning the Bible into therapy
Designed for reflection, not performance or certainty
Each lesson includes historical notes, gentle reflection prompts, and optional ways of engaging the material through writing, creativity, or embodied noticing — always invitational, never forced.
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