Adam and Eve the image of God; Genesis 2:5-7
Proposition 1
So looking at Genesis 2 describing God creating the male human, we should consider the very finite and specific place where the exact amount of soil is taken from, where God used that soil to make Adam.
Genesis 2:5-7 5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up —for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 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. |
Interesting words noted: field = http://biblehub.com/hebrew/hassadeh_7704.htm
ground = http://biblehub.com/hebrew/haadamah_127.htm
dust = http://biblehub.com/hebrew/afar_6083.htm
earth = http://biblehub.com/hebrew/haaretz_776.htm
"IN the Earth" = https://biblehub.com/hebrew/vaaretz_776.htm
Proposition 2
The first Israelite generation was told by Moses to dig a hole in the ground when they pooped and urinated.
This "long-drop" was to be outside their camp-site. So that within the camp
the ground is clean for Lord to walk through there.
A small group or each person was to go outside and dig a hole for their daily business.
Deuteronomy 23:12-14 (ESV)
12“You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.
13 And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.
14 Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
Conclusion
So you can see that the dust of the earth which God used to make Adam was virgin dust from the virgin earth of Genesis 1-1. Not even rain from the second day had fallen on that dust of that part of earth.
Rain | When rain falls, the soil reacts. Chemicals
react with the water. Nowadays we know the smell of rain is due to decomposed plant oils laying in the soil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor However Genesis 2:6 says that a mist
came up from the earth so the whole face of the earth was
moisturized. And,
in the damp soil, there live bacteria. |
Trees |
Trees absorb atoms of nutrients from the soil. But in order to first absorb these nutrients, trees secrete enzymes (called "root exudates") and feeder-cells (called "root border cells") into the soil around the roots. (called "the rhizosphere"). The root exudates and root border cells break down earthy chemicals and allow the root-cell wall to absorb nutrients. |
Animals | Animals poop. Infact both animals from God's fifth day of creation and from the sixth day of creation, poop and affect the ground. These are the moving creatures. The moving creatures aren't mentioned because God is using Adam (to explain to us humans) how God perfectly-created each creature. |
So God perfectly-created Adam and Eve. to our 3D eyes and
4D arrow of the present moment, by the first attempt.
Genesis 2:18 English Standard Version
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
biblehub.com/esv/genesis/2-20.htm
The reason why God brought the animals to Adam for him to give names the animals is that one day, Adam would know which animals are missing ( extinct or nearly endangered).In the context of the first day of creation, the ability to identify animals is more important than the modern idea that Adam named every animal including foreign endemic animals. (If we look at the Hebrew text for Genesis 2:19, the word for "brought them" is Hebrew-imperfect, while the assertive prose about God making the creatures, uses the word "all" (כָּל Kal = every).)
Western (post-reformation) Christians mockingly think "oh FAIL!! adam couldn't find a mate", or ponder of Adam's language, but his language is beside the point. (glyphic like Babel).
But what if correctly identifying creatures was a most important test to see if Adam should live and procreate. (as a special 'image of God" creature.
Quality Control: testing Adam's memory?
We know that memory is different from the ability to identify a creature's species.We know animals have memory. ( oral cultures of whales, and intergenerational traditions of chimpanzees, etc)
Adam is identifying individuals from within species.
Sharks identify creatures by the prey's taste, and most amniote creatures necessarily need to identify their own species (to procreate).
Adam is able to recognize similarities and distinguish features between individuals.
The purpose of this test:
1) Are humans able to consider the animals for the animals' sakes? (without another human: so not for humanity's economic profit)? yes.2) Is Adam able to care for the animals, and discern he is not one of them? yes.
3) Being able to identify an individual's species is necessary for the humans who have dominion over them to help them gather in herds and mate. (Genesis 1-28).
4)The ability to use a word as a name of creatures is important. The word 'crayfish" applies to a single crayfish, and any crayfish today. The same word "crayfish" can be used to describe any future crayfish or any historical crayfish. In fact, any imagined future where there is no crayfish, we can still remember crayfish and we can imagine that same future but with crayfish in it.
5) the name serves as a memory-aid, to trigger any memory about that word, and memories can be rehashed.
6)Adam can invent new words.
Genesis 2:21-23
Without Eve , Adam would have simply gone to sleep forever in that 5D & 6D futures of God's perfect foreknowledge.When God knows all the futures, and when you imagine the limits of those many possible futures, God could introduce the animals to Adam, Adam could walk everywhere once, Adam could meet every animal, but either he would do everything possible for one man to do, or he would simply die eventually and that's the end of humanity (without women).
So with Eve, humanity is able to do infinity * infinity possible futures and create other humans as befitting of good creations.
But to us, Adam and Eve were created almost instantly, on
the same day.
And we can see the Image of God, that God created Adam and
Eve to "affect" the creations explained in Genesis 1.
1D fingers |
we have fingers to count to 10. Counting is how we
manipulate quantities and our fingers are long lines like
1-dimensional objects in geometry. Numbers are information, and so even each letter in an alphabet is a value. | Matthew 6:9-13 . Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name |
2D hands | Hands comprise many fingers, and so we manipulate flat things and 2D things with our hands. Even words | Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands |
3D shoulders | Together both Our shoulders rotate
in a perfect 3D sphere to give you reach. the Sphere is a
perfect 3D shape, because it is defined by one number: it's
radius. | Isaiah 9:4: For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. |
5D hopes | we have brains to guess hope for different futures of any situation or any event | fear not |
6D plans | humans have brains to think up detailed long-term plans and have contingencies for any foreseeable event | |
7D laws (logarithmic dimension) | we have memory to remember words and remember the divine commandments like the 10 commandments in Exodus 20 and Christ's new commandment to "love one another as Jesus loved you" (Jesus loves you and Jesus loved the Queen of England too, so that's pretty respect) | https://biblehub.com/john/13-34.htm Lord Jesus Christ said "a New commandment I give you: Love one another as I have loved you so you must love one another." here "you" is plural. |
4D hips |
Unlike shoulders, hips move only forwards. We understand
circular time as future moving, and not past moving. So the front of your "loins" (hips and waist) is where pubic parts create new humans to travel into the future (forward-direction of time). and if we try to utilize the history of time, it comes out of humans as bad as poop poop vs. food history vs. future regret vs. hope. | www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-Chapter-7/
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. |
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