Genesis 2

English Standard Version (ESV)

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them…

The Creation of Man and Woman

— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Yĕhovah ‘elohiym formed ‘adam of the dust of the ground [‘adamah]…

We need to understand something here from the original Hebrew:

Yĕhovah ‘elohiym [THE LORD GOD] IS plural (as we discussed yesterday).

Note also the similarity of the word for ‘man (or mankind) to the word for the ground: ‘adamah. “You are dust and to dust you will return.” (Sound familiar? Yet we speak only of the bones and flesh and not the breathed-in soul.)

Adam = man = mankind and is a masculine noun (like ‘elohiym); yet the great mystery of the complexity of man, made in the image of the One Triune God, is also a great mystery.

 Genesis 2:15a Yĕhovah ‘elohiym took ‘adam into the garden of ‘Eden…

The LORD GOD took mankind into Eden – Man, the male and Woman, which the LORD GOD created out of man, the female. HE made them. (More of that in the remainder of Genesis 2.)

Jesus Christ, the Word of God, ONE with the God the Father and God the Holy Spirit spoke to the great mystery of man and woman and marriage referring to Genesis 2:18, which in the KJV translates:

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Jesus said (of these scriptures and specifically from Genesis 2:

6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

As ‘from dust to dust’ rings in your souls the familiar truth of the burial of the body, so too ought these words of Christ Jesus burn in the hearts and souls of a man and a woman joined in marriage by our Christian vows before God.

A man and a woman, joined to each other as one and joined as one one with God: a great and wonderful mystery!

What is your witness for Christ Jesus in this, o ‘adam of dust and man of spirit?

Dearly beloved Christian husband; dearly beloved Christian wife:

What is the witness of the triune oneness of your Christian Marriage?

 

{a personal prayer}

Dearly beloved, my Blessing of the Lord our Savior:

May the overflowing sacrificial love of Christ Jesus renew your vows of witness to the eternal love and joyous hope we found in His blessings of the joining of our lives with Him now and forever more. amen.