Eaten out of house and home!

Genesis 2: 1-24

The joke goes something like this, Adam and the boys were out foraging for food one day when one of the boys looks across a field and see a beautiful garden, a literal paradise, they ask their Dad “Who lives there?”, He replies that is where we use to live before your mother ate us out of house and home. Yeah yeah, I know your groaning. That is a funny simplistic answer, but far from what really happened. Before all this let us look at the creation of man again, GOD formed the man out of the dust of the ground and breathed life into him. This process was far different than the fish, birds, and the animals as was mentioned previously. Then GOD places the man he created in a beautiful garden he had already prepared for him to tend and watch over. There was preparation and there was a plan. Next GOD laid out for the man everything he could freely eat except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The free choice is made available to Adam, he could remain in community with God. Man could look to God the true judge, of what is good and evil, or he could eat the fruit and make his own choices. To decide for himself what is good and evil, right and wrong and become like God in that respect but reaping the consequences for any of his own bad choices. This also would break his relationship with God, who is the source and sustainer of life. No source, no life, plain and simple. The death or separation would be relational and spiritual, physical, and eventually eternal. The last thing to look at was what GOD said about it was not good for the man to be alone. None of the animals were suitable, do not miss that one. So, God put the man to sleep and preformed the first surgery ever, took out one of the man’s ribs and made a woman from a part of man. After the man woke up in post-op and was properly introduced, GOD called her woman. A side note in all of this is Man had been naming all the animals and she was not called Eve at this point. This is the name it claim it authority I was referring to. For everything else except the woman, the man was given authority over and to rule, under God’s authority. When you look through the lens that she was created from bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh, she is part of him, equal in purpose and authority. God did not declare his image, his reflection good until they were both made.

Take away from all of this is Mankind, humans (man and woman) were created in the image of God, as a community, just one of them was not enough or good, this speaks about God, by looking at what he has created to be his representative on earth, through this we can learn a little more about our creator.

Next up, staring a little deeper into the reflection.