Genesis 1:27

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."


In the last lesson, I took you back to chapter 5. Let's look at it again, just for a quick review. Genesis chapter 5 verse 2. This is a recap. This is a summarization.


Genesis 5:2

"Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."


He doesn't refer to the woman. He doesn't refer to Eve, He merely says He created THEM and called THEIR name Adam. They were both in Adam.


Come back and let's pick up the creation of woman. Turn to chapter 2. We will come back to the earlier verses, but just to pick up the appearance of the woman. She won't be called Eve until after the fall, she is only referred to as the woman.


Now in chapter 2, Adam has just given names to all the other living creatures and as I mentioned, then he must have had an inkling of what it would be like to have a help meet as he saw all of these creatures already with the female and the male and their mates.


God realized that He needed a help meet, such as up in verse 18. Now in verse 21 after Adam has named all the species of the animal kingdom and the birds and what have you, it says:


Genesis 2:21-22

"And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: (first instance of anesthesia, isn't it? So he put Adam to sleep and is going to do some surgery on the old boy!) 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."


I, for one, like to take the Scripture as logically as we possibly can. I know that we take it by faith, and I don't want anybody to come up and say you can't take Scripture logically. I think a lot of times we can. And, especially from the scientific side. There is so much pure science in Scripture that most people miss.
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