Furthermore,
a final point of dispute concerning the belief that there is co-equality and coexistence
of the image of God being present in both genders of humanity, why would one surmise
that there be a distinction in God's process of creating Adam and in God's process
of creating Eve at all? Why wouldn't God have fashioned Eve out of the dust and breath
into her the breath of life just as he did in the case of Adam if the were the case
that Eve was to bare the image of God just as Adam did. It would have saved Adam quite
a nap, a surgery, and a rib.
When
one begins to understand more fully the Holy Bible, then one begins to realize something
about the characteristics of the Judea-Christian God, that God is divinely methodical
in his omniscience. There is a purpose behind all of his works and his doings as Solomon
points out in Ecclesiastes3:1 “To
every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”.
God's in his divine
omnipotence is capable of fashioning a help meet for man in the creation of woman
by forming her out of the dust and breathing into her the breath of life as well.
But God doesn't do this one surmises, chiefly, because in his divine methodology in
which God is a most excellent designer and his ways are higher than our ways. God
had a better design. God has decreed that their should be divine symbolism present
in humanity in the distinct gender differences of the man and the woman and the metaphorical
nature of their relationship. Throughout the course of Biblical History it appears
that God has certain methodology for creating and accomplishing his works through
means of symbolism which points to a higher purpose.
For
the purpose of illustration, it is common knowledge that a pool player calls out his
last shot by citing which pocket he will place the eight ball, but if God were analogized
as a pool player then perhaps that pool player would call out the entire ball placement
in sequence of the entire engagement of pool play before even breaking the the racked
assortment of balls and subsequently perform it flawlessly, as God states in Revelation
1:11 “...
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:” .
Whether God would accomplish it all in one shot or in a sequence of shot one only
surmises, but one speculates that God in the analogized as a pool player would engage
in the activity in such that the entire enactment of God's per-illustrated predestined
perfect game of pool would point to something of a more noble nature then just an
abstract parlor game. One surmises that God would use that game of pool to metaphorically
point to a higher truth. And in the Holy Bible, God does just that. He has created,
foreknown, and foreseen all creation from beginning to end, and God has overseen and
has always been engaged in heaven and earth and culminated its rhyme, rhythm, and
suspense through the ages as he promised Abraham in Genesis 15:5 & 22:17 to
point to that most eminent being in existence, himself, in the person of the Messiah,
Jesus Christ, the savior for all humanity that all souls may be fulfilled through
him perfect and acceptable to a Holy God.
It
is the repeated symbolism in the Holy Bible contained in the Old Testament where the
establishment and history of the Ancient Hebrew people is depicted (Genesis
15:1,15:6 & 15:13) and it is simultaneously
in sync and in accordance with the New Testament occurrence of Jesus Christ and the
New Testament establishment of the beginnings of the Kingdom of Heaven being established
on the earth to the Gentile World which continues on in the course of human history
even to this present day and unto the ending of the world.
And
so as if this were a small matter, one reasons that in creating Eve as God did from
Adam and for Adam not from the dust but fashioned from Adam's rib and then having
her cleave unto him so that their souls be knit, bound together in one flesh, under
Adam's authority being vested in him by God as the 1st image
bearer of God and under the blessing of Genesis 2:23-24,
God is symbolically indicating something and setting a precedence for human existence
that mirrors a higher truth.
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