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By MyTwoCents Date: 2005 Feb 10 Comment on this Work [[2005.02.10.20.35.3740]] |
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When God had made the first man he formed him from the ground blew air into his nostrils the breath of life's mute sound The man moved round the garden and searched this paradise and found so many creatures but much to his surprise There was no other like him no other quite the same he began to feel so lonely Adam was his name All the other creatures had mates to call their own love to share, young to bear yet he remained alone The creator felt his sadness as he watched him roam about he knew he needed someone of this there was no doubt Yes, someone to share his words with to laugh and be his friend someone to share his joy with their life with him to spend Now he could have simply made her the same way he made the man but being the romantic god that he is he worked out a different plan Putting Adam into a deepened sleep where he felt no pain from the start he opened him up and removed one rib the one from over his heart He placed this rib so carefully into the body that he formed and when he brought her to his side Adam's heart was instantly warmed "Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh" were the words he used to describe the feelings he felt when she came to him as he pulled her to his side. And since a wound was made in his chest to create this helper for man he joined both words "wound of man" and called her, this creature, "woman" So why do you think that God chose the rib that came from over his heart to form the body of his future mate perhaps he's really quite smart He's more than brilliant, a romantic god When he called Eve by her name Naturally, Adam pulled her close to his heart From here it was that she came ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7)(ASV)-BibleGateway "And Jehovah God said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like." (Genesis 2:18)(Darby)-BibleGateway "And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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." (Genesis 2:21-23)(ASV)-BibleGateway The Wisdom of the Romantic God, Jehovah By creating the woman from the rib of the man, he is making the woman - bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Therefore man will love and cherish the woman as he would his own body - for she is truly a part of him. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)(ASV)-BibleGateway "for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake." (1Corinthians 11:9)(NASB)-BibleGateway "So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it..." (Ephesians 5:28,29)(NASB)-BibleGateway Even Jesus recognized the Romantic Wisdom of his Father "Haven't you read, Jesus replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." " (Matthew 19:4-6)(NIV)-BibleGateway "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love. (Proverbs 5:18,19)(NIV)-BibleGateway ` |