Even Better Than Eden by Nancy Guthrie
Week 1: Introduction — Better than a Return to Eden
Read the Introduction of Even Better than Eden. Primary passages: Genesis 1–3; Revelation 21–22.
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Before diving into the nine themes, Guthrie sets the stage with a vital question: what exactly are we hoping for? Take time this week to consider how you have previously imagined the end of God's story.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Guthrie opens by challenging a common assumption — that the goal of redemption is simply to 'get back to the garden.' Before reading this book, how did you picture eternity or the new creation? Was your mental image closer to a restored Eden or something else entirely?
2.The book's central claim is that the new creation will be 'even better than Eden.' What initially strikes you as surprising or even difficult to believe about that claim? What would need to be true for it to hold up?
3.Guthrie argues that how we understand the end of God's story shapes how we live today. Can you think of an area of your own life — a grief, a longing, a temptation — where a clearer vision of the new creation might actually change something practical?
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