THE LONESOMENESS OF MAN
"The Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him" (Genesis 2:18). Contrary to popular belief, God was not saying that Adam was lonely. Adam was living in a perfect neighbourhood. He had communion with His Creator. For him to be lonely would mean that God had missed something or left something out when He created Adam. God looked at everything He had made and said it was good. (Genesis 1:31).
What's changed now that something is not good?
Is Adam aware of the Deep Sleep?
Only in sleep did the soul Leaves the body A time of temporary Death!!! As foretold, To behold... As the body talks; Not its Soul Unaware of the leak Wetting & Sweating Awaiting a Soul!!! SoulMate???
Eve was quite literally a Dream Girl, as Adam slept deeply while God prepared her. His joyful excitement upon meeting her can only be imagined as he 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.”
(Genesis 2:23)
Adam in a state of Lonesomeness???
How do I get you Alone? ALONE!!!!
What is God’s best gift to a man besides salvation? Adam and I know the answer from personal experience. (Hint: See Proverbs 18:22)
Proverbs 18:22 New American Standard Bible 22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing And obtains favor from the Lord.
Where Did Adam Get His Dream Girl?
Did Eve really come from Adam’s rib? Come now, is that even possible?
Which is easier: to make Adam from dirt or Eve from a rib? The Creator who made Adam from dirt could certainly perform the simpler task of making Eve from a rib. After all, He’s the Creator. “With God all things are possible,” according to Jesus (Matthew 19:26).
Thus it is certainly possible for Yahweh to fashion Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. But did He really do this?
Absolutely! The historical record in Genesis is crystal clear: Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” … So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. (Genesis 2:18,21,22 NASB)
Adam knew the origin of the new rib-creature. He named her Woman, because “she was taken out of man.” (Genesis 2:21-23)
Some scoff at the clear statements in Genesis regarding Eve’s creation by Yahweh, dismissing them as poetry or symbolism. But these Genesis statements do not fit the forms of Hebrew poetry in the poetical books of the Old Testament.
Symbolism is refuted by Adam’s choice of a name. The name Woman that Adam assigned to the new rib-creature and Adam’s reason for the name show that the literal interpretation of the Genesis record is correct. The record of Eve’s origin is neither poetic nor symbolic. It is literal fact. Yahweh made Eve from Adam’s rib.
Yahweh made Adam out of dirt, and all humans, including Eve, descended from that one original human — Adam (Acts 17:26). Eve was made out of Adam’s rib, and all other humans descended from that original pair in the usual way (except for Jesus of Nazareth).
Eve could physically prove she was one of the original humans. Navels are anatomical evidence of descent. Adam and Eve did not have navels because they were not descendants. Neither was ever connected to a mother by an umbilical cord, so neither had the scar formed by severing the cord. Adam and Eve were the originals of the human race.
Checking belly buttons is one of several ways to distinguish someone from Adam when you hear somebody exclaim, “I don’t know him from Adam!” If he has a belly button, then he is not Adam!
Although Adam did not have a navel, he may have had something else: a ribbel, the scar formed where God extracted a rib to make Eve. We don’t know whether Yahweh left a scar on Adam or not when He closed up the flesh where He removed a rib. God could have performed a scarless operation. Or He may have left a prominent ribbel for a powerful reminder and teaching aid for thousands of descendants that came along in the 930 years of Adam’s life. It could even have been a cherished reminder for Eve herself, a distinctive mark of the sacred bond between Adam and Eve.
Some have doubted the Genesis record because today everyone has 12 pairs of ribs for a total of 24 ribs. Some think men should have fewer ribs than women, because God took one of Adam’s ribs to form Eve. However, removing a rib does not change the genetic DNA blueprint passed to offspring. The loss of a parent’s bone does not affect the child, because it does not change the DNA blueprint.
Why did Yahweh make Eve from a rib? Why that particular bone and not another? Why not the pelvis, or collar bone, or a femur?
A possible reason has been discovered through the development of bone grafts. The rib cage is an almost endless supply of bone, because ribs grow back. As long as the outer membrane covering the rib, the perichondrium, is left intact, the rib will grow back. Ribs are the only bones in the human body which regenerate themselves.
Today surgeons use bone from ribs to reconstruct damaged bones like skulls, eye sockets, and jaw bones. The removed rib regenerates within two months provided the perichondrium has been left intact.
So perhaps Adam grew back his missing rib! Since Adam was in perfect condition before sin, he may have regenerated the rib within days.
Scoffers have long derided the Genesis account of Eve being made from Adam’s rib. But now modern medical science illuminates the reasonableness of the Biblical record. Blessed are those who believed the Bible’s report on Eve’s origin from Adam’s rib — before medical science discovered rib regeneration.
Why did the Creator make ribs for Adam and Eve and their progeny? What good are ribs? They actually benefit us in multiple ways. Ribs form a protective cage around our internal organs. In adults, ribs are one of the few bones that make red blood cells in the bone marrow. Chest breathing muscles attach to the ribs.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh at that place. And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. And the man 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.” For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh….Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. (Genesis 2:18-24; 3:20 NASB)
Before Light there is Darkness. If anyone is stating that darkness CANNOT be created is stating that God has limited powers and doesn't possess absolute knowledge, nor the ability to create certain things.
I form the light, out of darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7 King James Version.
If God exists within time, which is His creation, then this means He is subjected to His creation, which is time. If God is not subjected to His creation, which is time, then God certainly has to exist outside time. That means time does not exist for God. It only exists for us. That is why we live and die. We have a beginning and we have an end. There is no beginning and no end for God. God does not die. Only we exist on a certain point of time whereas God exists without and beyond time. He exist in the past present and future...
When God enters Creation somewhere in TIME....
Before God begins His special project of providing the perfect helpmate for Adam, He allows Adam to name all the animals. Whatever Adam calls them, that's what they become. This speaking spirit is acting just like his Creator. The power of his spoken word gives the animals their identity. Once this project is completed, God causes a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.
The first surgery is about to take place. What we see here is a uniue picture of the death of Christ without the shedding of blood. God the Creator is about to take out of Adam his bride, who will be without spot or wrinkle. She is the perfect match for Adam. Adam's sleep is not for her sin but for her existence. Sin doesn't enter the picture yet as Adam's bride was in him before she was with him.
That moment much later, when the fullness of time comes, the last Adam (Jesus) will be put to sleep on a cross. His blood will be spilled for His bride so that she will be without spot or wrinkle. "Christ ... loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of wate by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish" (Ephesians 5:25-27). We were in Him before we were with Him: "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blame before Him in love" (Ephesians 1:4).
If God’s rescue project can involve coming to earth as a baby boy, then this same boy being born of a virgin is like special icing on the cake.
Doing something supernatural and super-special sounds like what a creative, all-loving Person would do as a way of announcing that fresh hope is about to begin.
Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called "Yellow" So then I took my turn Oh what a thing to have done And it was all yellow Your skin Oh yeah, your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful You know, you know I love you so You know I love you so....
On testaments of the virgin birth, Christians refer to the New Testament gospels of both Mathew and Luke, where in the former an angel came to Joseph to explain 'stuff' to him, whereupon:
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus - Matthew - 1:24-25
'And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son' means that Joseph did NOT have sex with her until Jesus was born.
But in Luke, the revelation was a conversation between Mary and the angel Gabriel.
And in that conversation, Mary admitted to her own 'virginity' when she asked:
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God - Luke 1:34-35
But predating the Gospels of Matthew and Luke was that of Mark, which does NOT bear any reference to the 'virgin' birth.
Most biblical researchers hold that Mark's was the first Gospel to be written, sometime around the year 70 CE, and that the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke were composed later sometime in the 80 CE or 90 CE.
Based on similar wordings, plus the gospels being in Greek (don't tell us each apostle translated from Aramaic into Greek on his own?), etc etc, biblical scholars believe there were lots of inter dependency in the latter two, especially on writings of Mark, meaning lots of copying.
So how did Matthew and Luke sourced information of the 'virgin birth' if Mark did not touch on that?
In the Beginning I was just a shadow In the beginning I was alone In the beginning, I was blind Living in a world devoid of light In the beginning There was only night!!!
It is hard for us in a society in which even the one-night stand has become socially respectable to register the trauma behind the account of the visit of the angel to Joseph, telling him to take a pregnant woman as his wife.
In the Jewish culture of Jesus's day, a marriage would be consummated with ten witnesses outside the door waiting for the blooded cloth, to be exhibited as evidence of the bride's virginity.
When the very young Mary agreed to be the handmaid of the Lord and accept her role in our redemption, she made herself vulnerable to social ostracism and execution by stoning. Joseph and their two whole families would be publicly shamed.
In the second century, Jewish anti-Christian propaganda sought to denigrate Mary's virginity by claiming that Jesus was the fruit of her liaison with a Roman soldier, Pandera, named after a Trojan plotter of adultery, from whom we get the word pander. They attacked the link to the prophecy of Isaiah to King Ahaz, "a virgin shall conceive ...," saying that the Hebrew word used, almah, need not imply virginity, although how the birth would therefore be any kind of sign is unclear. Almah is used for Rebecca in Genesis 24, "untouched by man," and for the royal virgins in the Song of Songs. Our word "maiden" carries a similar sense of a nubile but virginal young girl.
Like the rabbis, some Christians today find this doctrine a difficult part of the Creed, worrying about DNA or seeing it as a denigration of sexual love. It flies against our modern world. For we have lost the meaning of the Virgin Birth, and so I would like briefly to uncover its beauty, its radical character and its truth.
God could have chosen to assume humanity through normal marital relations - so why choose this way? What does it tell us?
A PLACE IN PARADISE
The concept of paradise is a 2,500-year old concept in the days when the ultimate in comfort and luxury was very different from today’s concept. People had a very narrow and shallow concept of luxury and comfort 2,500 years ago. Paradise was a walled garden of streams, grass, trees, fruits, vines and so on.
Take me down To the paradise city Where the grass is green And the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home
The Persian Empire existed around 550 BCE in the area that is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Palestine, etc. Invariably, most of the area was dry and arid desert and most of the population lived in squalid huts and tents. Many were nomadic and did not settle in one place or in towns and cities.
The rulers, however, lived in huge and lavish palaces within walled gardens. These walled gardens had streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, and whatnot. Basically, the life of the rulers and their immediate family was way above the level of the rakyat. And only the rulers and their family enjoyed the luxury of these walled gardens.
These walled gardens, in the Persian language, were called pairi, which means ‘around’, and daeza, which means ‘walled’. Those two words combined would be pairidaeza, which means ‘a walled-in compound or garden’. In the Greek language it is called paradeisos while in English it is called paradise.
Hence, pairidaeza, paradeisos or paradise was the ultimate in luxury and comfort — a walled compound or garden with streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, etc. And the Persians believed that this would be what you would be rewarded with in the next life if you were good in this life — pairidaeza. Hence good people get to enter pairidaeza while bad people will be sent to the opposite of pairidaeza when they die.
That was the old belief more than 2,500 years ago, long before Christianity and Islam emerged.
But then, in those days, 2,500 years ago, the ultimate in luxury and comfort was a walled compound or garden with streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, etc. — something that only the rulers could enjoy while the rest resided in dry and arid desert and lived in huts and tents. They had no other notion of luxury and comfort. They had no notion of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, superbikes, iPads, iPhones, Blackberry, golf clubs, speedboats, yachts, holiday resorts, beach bungalows, and whatnot. They only knew walled compounds or gardens with streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, etc.
That is why when Middle Eastern religions talk about the ‘good’ afterlife they talk about paradise, which is basically the concept of gardens with streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, etc. That is the ultimate in luxury and comfort, with some virgin maidens thrown in for good measure. There is no other notion of paradise — no Lamborghinis, Ferraris, superbikes, iPads, iPhones, Blackberry, golf clubs, speedboats, yachts, holiday resorts, beach bungalows and whatnot.
And that is what most proponents of the Abrahamic faiths, the Zoroastrians included, believe — that good people get to go to paradise, a garden with streams, grass, flowers, trees, fruits, vines overflowing with grapes, etc. They will lie beside flowing streams of cool and clear water on the laps of virgin maidens drinking wine and eating grapes. It is a belief 2,500 years old before Christianity and Islam came onto the scene.
Do you believe all this? So what if you do and so what if you don’t? Your belief is your belief and who am I to question what you believe? You are entitled to your beliefs whether I think they may be right or wrong. Even if I think you are wrong you are still entitled to believe what you believe how stupid I may think these beliefs are.
The concept of paradise is a 2,500-year old concept in the days when the ultimate in comfort and luxury was very different from today’s concept. People had a very narrow and shallow concept of luxury and comfort 2,500 years ago. Paradise was a walled garden of streams, grass, trees, fruits, vines and so on.
Hence, some people may think that this is a stupid belief — and, therefore, people who believe in this are also stupid. But do we question those who believe in this and demand that they declare what they believe in? If you believe in paradise and the concept of what paradise is, well and fine. That is your choice. No one is questioning your belief.
In the beginning, Adam was all alone in lonesomeness. Then "The Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him" (Genesis 2:18). Instead of waiting, after night & day of dreaming, Adam create Beauty Robots out of his imagination... A creativity is BORN!!! #lonesomeness #alone #creativity #imagination #creation #adamribs I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don't know where it goes But it's home to me and I walk alone
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