Discuss Genesis 2 Page 42

I feel the power & love of God

I thought that Adam & Eve were the only humans?

vs 5-6 show that there was no rain on the earth just because there was no any person to cultivate the land. Gen 1 tells about God's plan while Gen 2:7 tells us about achievement of God's plan of creating a man

It is a glorious day to recall the glory of God's creations,especially the celestial system (ps.19:1).It is worth remembering the God of Glory on this day by resting from our worldly p***ions.

Wait,
Genesis 1:11-12 and 1:26-27 Trees came before Adam.
Genesis 2:4-9 Trees came after Adam.

Genesis 1:20-21 and 26-27 Birds were created before Adam.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 Birds were created after Adam.

Genesis 1:24-27 Animals were created before Adam.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 Animals were created after Adam.

Genesis 1:26-27 Adam and Eve were created at the same time.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:21-22 Adam was created first, woman sometime later.

please help me with an answer whether Adam and Eve are the first human beings that God created?

Notice how God (Yahweh) creates the Garden of Eden AFTER creating the rest of the human race in the previous chapter. Adam and Eve weren't the first humans on Earth, Adam was created to tend the garden, and Eve was there to keep him company.

it is a great book to read, the book history, is good book.

Yes, the calendar has had several changes, but always in dates(numbers), never in days. The 7th day is the same as it always has been and God santified the 7th day (set it apart for Holy use) He kept the 7th day Sabbath and gave it to man long before the 10 commandments were given.

The tree was only a symbol of obedience, Man chose to eat and disobey their creator.The part I concentrated on was that Adam did not die in the literal day that he ate from the tree thus allowing a day to mean a period of time

I like this verse. To me it means the couple become each other's closest friend and confidant. They can trust each other. Scripture is handling the mother in laws right here! LoL The wife and husband become each others counsel and they choose together the things of their household.

As Jesus was Begotten of the Father,Eve was Begotten of Adam (flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone (the presence of blood is mentioned only after the sin, as prior to sinning it was the Holy Spirit that was in them )As God and Jesus is one,Adam and Eve is one...Eve was subject to Adam due to her disobediance and subsequent curse by God.

i want to categorically say that, Genesis 1 was about God alone and his creation.... Genesis 2 was about God and mankind, while Genesis 3 was about God, Mankind and the Serpent. For us as human to understand the basis of our existence and the purpose for which we were created, then we need to go back to these 3 chapters and trace back our origin (The source).

i believe the word "rest" used here is of more significance since GOD rested from creation work and embarked on a Sabbath observance.Here he ministered to his creation hence sanctifying this very special day to be an inheritance to the human race.

I,m wondering if,genesis-2-12 is really describing,the " quality " or the "quantity" of gold in that "Land"

As to the creation of Adam, it has always seemed to me that the race of man was created in the first chapter. Then in chapter two God created a garden (vs. 8) with the tree of life and the tree of good and evil. Adam and Eve were created especially to care for the garden and not a second creation of man.

Alan, I agree, in chapter 1 God had already created man and woman. When God formed Adam from the soil of the earth (already His creation), Adam was the image and likeness of God Himself (both male and female and also neither). Adam must have been one confused individual because as human he could not cope as God could. When God removed a rib, (the female part) from Adam all the sudden he awoke no longer confused. And when God presented Eve to Adam, he understood!!! A man and a woman separated until God joins them back together in marriage. I think this could also explain why the male chromosomes (XX) and the woman's is (XY).
And also explains where Cain's wife came from, she was a descendant of the "first" people (plural) created by God. Just a few thoughts of mine...

i believed on verse 3 that God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, and not the first day.

I am so proud of you people for these questions i couldnt even come up with them. Thank you so much

these are really good questions :)

Is it in the realm of possibility that Adam and Eve were in Eden for longer than we usually think? What if they had an entire civilization going when Eve took the fruit? They could have been in Eden for hundreds of years, seeing as there was no death. That would explain why Cain was worried that someone would kill him if they knew him, and where he got his wife.

Help means to assist and "meet" comes from the Hebrew word,opposite.It means that she will complement or correspond to him.

I always thought verse 18 said help mate till i considered it carefully. Help-meet what does that truly mean?

In paragraph 7 god created the man by using the dust of the ground. But man had already been created in chapter 1 of Genesis, paragraph 26, God created man, male and female, in his own image. So where am I wrong? cause according to what i read God created man twice

In the bible, it says
1) God made Adam
2) He then made the animals and then
3) He made Eve.

Did he make only male animals and then Eve and female animals or the female animals came before Eve?

By the time God made the earth, there was already a disagreement between God and the Devil.

Why did God make a law which if transgressed was deemed to be evil and the punishment of death given for the transgression, when at that stage Adam and Eve did not have the knowledge of good and evil?
How were Adam and Eve meant to understand good and evil when they had no knowledge of it?

I find it very intriguing when people ignore the obvious, and yet, they can develop a whole theory based on assumptions! The obvious: Man was “formed of the dust of the ground”, and after God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”, he “became a living soul” ( Genesis 2:7). He was not created “an immortal spirit” as there is no Bible support for that: but rather made of flesh, blood and bones. When Adam met Eve for the first time, he did not exclaim, “This is spirit of my spirit” but: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man ( Genesis 2:23). And, with all their sanctity, beauty and perfection, our first parents were given the First Commandment, under the penalty of death: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” ( Genesis 2:16, 17). Their very existence depended on their obedience to God. It’s a pity that Eve believed “the serpent” instead of God! But I guess we are no different today… God says: “THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, (at creation) and not man for the Sabbath” ( Mark 2:27). And, “I rested on the seventh day from all My work which I had made. And I blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it” ( Genesis 2:2, 3). But man says: “It don’t matter to me, the Sabbath was made for the Jews only”.

I cry!

Genesis 2 is similar to Genesis 1. They both deal with one Subject. The Subject at the core of these chapters is God, Creator. He does not allow man to be the central idea there. It is God. To be created in His image and likeness is to be created as essentially spirit, like God is ( John 4:24). We are at our core, spirit. The flesh is an outward shelter which is temporal. The spirit is what can know God and it is eternal.
Concerning the sabbath (rest). God was modelling what was good for man ( Mark 2:27). But God did NOT institute a sabbath commandment there at that point. He modelled the rest, and Adam and Eve in this place of heavenly oneness with God, free from sin, were at rest. The commandment came later.

This is one of the powerful chapters which exhibit the power given to man by God. The million dollar question is WHY DID GOD REST FROM HIS WORKS? It is clear when God thought of creating man with the same image as God and after his likeness, he transferred all power to man. Image means we look like God. This means when God was down in the Garden of Eden there was no difference between God and man. Secondly likeness, the power to create was given to man. God had to rest from all his works because he had created a man in his image and likeness. There was never any mention in the bible where God created a new thing except that man started to make cars, aeroplanes, houses, ships and new technologies. Man was given dominion over everything which God had created before man. Whatever we do not have it’s because we are not creating with our own mouths. God was pleased with his own masterpiece man who was to continue creating on his own behalf. He could have continued to create to the tenth day but chose the seventh day. The day is not important but what is important is why did God rest.