Who Told You That? Awe, the Garden, and the Lie That We Don't Belong | Who Told You That? | Chad Belew

What if the deepest question isn't "what do I believe?" but "who told me to see it this way?" Opening with the "overview effect" — what astronauts describe when they see Earth from space and watch borders, tribes, and arguments shrink while our shared belonging grows — Chad launches a new series asking where our maps of God, ourselves, and our neighbors actually came from. Walking back through Genesis 3, he reframes the fall: not first an act of disobedience but a rupture of trust, a lie that made us see God as unsafe and each other as enemies. The cure isn't perfect performance; it's awe that zooms us back out, and a Jesus who prays we'd be one and sends us to go love well.

In this episode:

- The "overview effect" and Dr. Keltner's research on awe — how zooming out exposes how artificial our divisions really are

- Paul's "in Adam / in Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22): a story of shared humanity, shared wound, and shared rescue, not just private faith

- Genesis 3 reread: the lie came before the bite — "Did God really say…?" and the rupture of trust that birthed shame, hiding, and separation

- Rethinking sin: missing the mark as believing less about yourself than God does, and the difference between guilt ("I did wrong") and shame ("I am wrong")

- A story from Iraq — "lucky" and his Sunni neighbors — and the haunting question: who told us those people were the threat?

- Jesus' prayer in John 17 "that they may be one," and why loving your enemy only makes sense if separation isn't the final word

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