Genesis Chapter 2 Discussion Page 31

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.

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.

I have read this chapter and found a bit of confusion. It is a detailed account of the beginning. God created man plural and then women! From that seed we are all in existence. Lean not to your on understanding, but rather give the holy spirit freedom to expand your knowledge of the truth. God has given us more than just chapters 1 and 2. Just look around us and all the witness he has given us. I find no such witness for evolution! I’ve never seen an ape turn into a man. Evolution is of man and creation of God. I am a living proof that there is one God, and so are you!!

That is very touching.

Genesis 2:
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; … 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” If the seventh day Sabbath was instituted at creation, along with the marriage between a man and a woman: why do people call it “the Jewish Sabbath”, and think that same sex marriage is OK? Could it be that we lost them both and now we are just looking for excuses not to listen to God? What kind of legacy do we leave to our children?

I like what Jane says, God knew us even before we came to be. Even before life was put in us just like before the plants got water to Grow, God knew of our existence. God is just awesome.

Thanking God for his blessing upon us because it makes riches and adds no sorrow.

I think this "mist" formed a vapour canopy over all the earth. It came down to help flood the earth in Noah's time. Since it stayed on the earth a rainbow was seen for the first time.

The first and second chapters of Genesis gave a brief explanation of creation. It’s fascinating how God gives such a cryptic account of the world’s beginning and then the creation of man. What a marvelous act and how can we really understand the full significances of creation and what it meant with such little information. Genesis 1:7 says, “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.” A number of people believe that an envelope of water was formed around the world which formed a condition similar to a hot house that allowed an even temperature throughout the new world. Not only did water exist on the earth but additional envelope of water circled the planet. As far as I know there is no hard proof that supports this theory but sounds plausible to me. Another interesting passage is Genesis 2:7, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” The idea that God stooped down and actually formed man from dust and then breathed into him to give life is mind boggling. Truly the work of creation is marvelous and wondrous.

Chapter 1 sheds a lot of light on not only the creation of the temporal earth but also the spiritual. In verse 1 it adds, "...and all the host of them”. We can ask, who are they? Then in verse 5 it reads "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground". In other words we were created spiritually before we and all the earth were created temporally (physically). Our origins come from heaven. That is why the Lord knew us before we were ever born.

Chapter 2 of the Book of Genesis is a recapitulation of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is emphasizing and giving more light to Chapter 1. Chapter 2 answers the question how God created Man and Woman.

What I am getting from Genesis chapter 2 is that our God is teaching them and holding their hands. Yes, Adam was a man and Eve a women. Without God, they clearly wouldn’t know anything. Our God was teaching and showing Adam and Eve as his own children.

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I have often wondered when studying Genesis chapter one of creation, what the time gap may be as shown in Genesis chapter 2 verse 4. Chapter one states man and woman’s creation and all the creatures being sent forth to multiply. Chapter two shows the creation of Adam and all creatures again as well as Eve and the Garden of Eden.