In this essay, I will take the position that God waited to create Eve because this impediment would ultimately reveal the pivotal plan of redemption. As we look throughout the Bible, there is a reoccurring theme written through the very fabric of each narrative. The theme of restoration and love endlessly iterates to convey the astounding message of Christ, our ultimate Savior. Even if we trace back all the way to the beginning, Christ is etched in every chapter and syllable. As we observe the patterns found between the love story of Adam and Eve, and the heart-warming tale of Christ, we will discuss the significance of the delay, the educational plan, and the connection between the husband and wife, and Christ and the church. The icon Adam …show more content…
In Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, why did God create the heavens and earth first? He could have created light and darkness first to theoretically help Him see when He made the heavens and earth. Or better yet, He could have created man first so there would be extra help for the of creation. The fact that God deliberately created everything in a specific order shows that God has perfect timing and an agenda He’s following. If we use the example of Christ’s first coming we know that God did not send Him right away. God knew that all was not good, and that the people of Earth desperately needed a Savior. Familiarly in Genesis chapter 2, verse 18, God verbalizes that the creation of Adam without Eve was ‘not good’. So why did God execute an action that could preposterously be considered imperfect if God runs on a flawless schedule? Thus re-iterating the fact that this temporary seeming malfunction is matter of factly part of God’s ultimate plan, a blank canvass too grand and extravagant for our human brains to …show more content…
This irrevocable pattern is not put into place fortuitously, but is purposely integrated throughout the Bible, beginning with the tale of Adam and Eve, and ending with the second advent of Christ. Yet intertwined throughout this big picture of redemption is the underlying details and lessons God wants us to learn. Something so utterly imperfect will at the end show itself to be without fault. In perspective to Adam, Eve could have been created in the same time frame as he was. Logically speaking it makes sense and even God acknowledges it, but it was delayed, creating a pragmatic opportunity for Adam to live for himself and to uphold the duty God laid upon him. Lastly the monumental moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived. God created Eve, a suitable helpmeet for Adam. Finally cherishing the intimate occasion together, they became one, united and made whole. This delay was divinely and consciously made, this becoming the first foreshadow of God’s intricate plan for Christ and His
In Genesis, god created merely by speaking. It was god who created the heavens and earth also known as cosmos. Water was already pre-existent matter; everything else was created by god. It all began when god spoke in the darkness and said let there be light and there was light. God saw that the light was good. During the day there would be light, and the darkness would be at night. By the second and third day, god created a firmament (dome) which separated the waters from the waters. God called the firmament heaven and said that all the waters under heaven should be gathered as one allowing for dry land to appear. This created one place for the water and another place for dry land. It was the dry land that beca...
MacArthur, John. The Battle for the Beginning: The Bible on Creation and the Fall of Adam.
In this book, there were no characters so I chose to write about the most interesting topic in chapter one called “excuses, excuses.” The author here explains about the very first fight between husband and wife and the excuses Adam and Eve gave to cover up their sin in the Garden of Eden. When God asked them of their crime, they tried to put the blame on each other. In all fairness neither of them lied but they did try to cover up the truth, literally. (Genesis 3) Both of their excuses were true but they were very lame. They both refused to take responsibility for their actions and lied straight to God’s face.
Where Genesis I describes a more ordered creation - the manifestation of a more primitive cultural influence than was responsible for the multi-layered creation in Genesis II - the second creation story focuses less on an etiological justification for the physical world and examines the ramifications of humankind's existence and relationship with God. Instead of Genesis I's simple and repetitive refrains of "and God saw that it was good" (Gen 1:12, 18, 21, 25), Genesis II features a more stylistically advanced look at "the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens" (Gen 2:4). While both stories represent different versions of the same Biblical event, Genesis II is significantly more complex than its predecessor and serves both to quantify the relationship between God and his creations and lay the foundation for the evolving story of humankind as well.
We can see the poem deals with the entire story of man's fall from grace, including background for Satan's motives. In Paradise Lost, Eve was tricked by Satan, who assumed the form of a serpent, into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Satan had whispered into her ear when she was asleep, and when he spoke to her later, he used his cunning to mislead her:
New Revised Standard Version. New York: American Bible Society, 1989. Print. The. Russell, Eddie.
The Monk tells the story of Adam and his fall from God’s grace in his series of tragedies, but Eve is noticeably absent compared to the references to her in the other tales. The monk describes Adam’s expulsion from the garden as “As Adam, til he for mysgovernaunce/ Was dryven out of hys hye prosperitee/ To labour, and to helle, and to meschaunce” (2012-2014). The Monk easily could have made Eve the reason for the original sin, but instead, he tells the tale with Adam as the subject of the tragedy. In doing so, the Monk is either making arguing that it was only when Adam ate the fruit that created the original sin and that the actions of Eve were inconsequential, or that too much bla...
Unless otherwise noted, this paper is based on Jewish Social Philosophy Class taught by Gabriel Fagin, MA, LCSW, Adjunct Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work.
In Book IX of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eve makes a very important and revealing speech to the tree of knowledge. In it, she demonstrates the effect that the forbidden fruit has had on her. Eve’s language becomes as shameful as the nakedness that Adam and Eve would later try to cover up with fig leaves. After eating the forbidden apple, Eve’s speech is riddled with blasphemy, self-exaltation, and egocentrism.
Such was the beginning of creation. Creation continued with the sky and the waters, the Earth and the vegetation, the lights and the animals, and on the sixth day God created man. "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…. So God created humankind in his image." God created Adam. It was Adam who had the first human relation with God. God "put him in the garden of Eden to till and keep it. And the lord God commanded the man, 'you may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.'" This simple command was not to be obeyed, and Adam, Eve and subsequent humanity was banished from Eden.
Henry, Matthew, and Leslie F. Church. Commentary on the Whole Bible: Genesis to Revelation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House, 1961. Print.
Most Christians are aware of the Old Testament story of creation, and how Adam was the first man created by God (Gen. 2:7), from which all other human life sprang. The New Testament reiterates this point in Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians by referring to him as “The first Man” (1 Cor. 15:45). Hence, Christians know that Adam was made of flesh (15:47), as God made him from the dust of the earth. Most Christians also recognize the purpose for which Christ came to earth and how He died on the cross to be the Savior of all who believe in Him. Therefore, Christians know that although Christ was born as a normal man, He came from heaven (15:47). However, for many Christians this is the extent of the connection between Adam and Christ. They have not stopped to consider the other parallels revealed in the Bible between the fist and the last Adam. This research will discuss the parallels revealed throughout scripture between Adam and Christ, and the effect they have had on humanity. Scripture quotations were taken from the New American Standard Bible, unless otherwise noted.
God could have created earth instantly but instead created everything day by day. He had everything ready created and ready for humans beforehand. “The garden is an image of the world, which to humankind is not a wilderness, a danger or a threat, but a home, which shelters, nourishes, and sustains.” (Ratzinger, p. 64) God made earth as a shelter just like parents have a room prepared for a new born before the baby has arrived meaning that we were created after because God wanted everything ready for us. Animals were needed to have come before we came because we needed them to be in our ecosystem so that we can survive. We need to have animals to be able to have vegetation and meat. Another point is that we weren’t made just like everything else on earth. “God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female.” (Genesis 1:27) God created us special to be of his image he didn’t just say let there be man and women and Adam and Eve appeared. He has a different plan for
In conclusion, the first two chapters of Genesis give an explanation for the existence of the universe. Even though the way in which the world is created differs from chapter one to chapter two, the fundamental principles behind the two stories are the same. I believe that this is the main point that the writers of the Bible are getting across to show that we should dedicate our lives to God, because he has given us life. Life is precious, so we should do our best to give back to God all that we are capable of in order to show our gratitude for this precious gift we have received. Even though we may fall short of perfection at times we should still strive to please God, and show him that he has truly created something beautiful.
...nces for straying from God and it is because of this that his mind further and further spirals downward. On the other hand, Adam and Eve manage to realize the scope of God’s power and thus rewarded by God’s grace.