Ep 117: What is Love? (Baby, Don’t Hurt Me) (GH)

What is goodness in the Bible? In this Greenhouse episode, Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc continue the conversation from Episode 116, “What Is Love in the Bible?” That episode offered a working definition for Season 6: love is seeking someone’s goodness based on God’s ideas. Episode 117 presses into the question underneath that definition: what do we mean by goodness? The conversation begins in Genesis 1, where God repeatedly calls creation good, and then very good. But what happens after Genesis 3? Is creation still good? Are human beings still good in any sense? Or has sin so corrupted everything that goodness only exists somewhere else, someday later? Brian, Handsome Kyle, and Doc explore original goodness, the corruption of sin, the goodness of creation, the image of God, and the danger of reducing people to “dirty rotten sinners” without also remembering that God made human beings with glory, value, and purpose. Sin fractures relationship, but it does not erase the goodness of what God made or His desire to redeem and restore it.