In His Image and Likeness pt 2 - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

It is normal for people to teach - and believe - that in the middle of Genesis chapter 1 verse 27, that chapter 2 verses 21 through 24 happen. And it is also the custom of many that Chavah (Eve) was formed from the rib that was taken from the human being. The reason is because how can one human being be fruitful and multiply unless they were two separate human beings? This also brings about the belief that having sex is the product of sin, because it comes from lust, and therefore everyone that comes through the birth canal is born with original sin, which is the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, of which all children need to have infant baptism to wash off the original sin. That doctrine is no where in Scripture supported, and if you believe that to be the truth, then you must say because YHVH commanded them and all the animals, as well as all humans and animals that came after them, to have sex and bear children, that He commanded them to sin. And YHVH does not command anyone to sin, for He can not sin neither can He cause any person to sin.

So while the human being was in the Garden that YHVH planted in the front of or Eastward of Eden, and there He placed the Human being to take care of the Garden. For there was not any rain and there was no human being to till the ground. But there was not any tilling of the ground until after the fall of man, because that was part of the curse. So after the human being was placed in the Garden of Eden to take care of it, YHVH Elohim said “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” (Genesis 2:18) We do not know how long after YHVH created the human being that He decided to make a help mete for him. We know that it was after YHVH rested on the Sabbath, but there was still no time yet for there was no death.

This brings us right back to where YHVH placed the human being into a trance. Now as we get back to the Hebrew words tzela’ and basar (HSN 1320) which is translated flesh. The definition of basar is flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemism) the pudenda of a man. For those that do not know, pudenda is the outward genital organs, normally associated with the woman, but in this case is associated with the male.

So if we took out rib and inserted side, then what you have is that YHVH took out a side of the human being, and shut up the flesh, or male genitalia. YHVH then took that side and built a woman. Now if you use the rib theory as truth, then you have the popular teaching that men have one less rib than women, but the anatomical fact is that both men and women have exactly the same amount of ribs in their bodies. Also, which side of the human being did YHVH open up so that He could grab a rib? For the human ribs begin in the back side of the body at the spine and goes around both the left and right sides to the front side where they all join up at the sternum. So now, where is the male pudenda? Is it anywhere around the ribs, or is it farther down the body than the ribs?

With one body but two individuals inside, and they are commanded to procreate, then there would be absolutely no need for any external genitalia since you would not need to connect with another body. And with the birth canal not being straight, but at an incline rising between the bladder and the colon, the male genitalia would need to be pointing up inside the body and not on the outside. But when the feminine side was separated from the masculine side, you then would need to connect to a different body, and thus now you would have need of external genitalia for the male.

Further, when you look at the curse that YHVH placed upon the woman while still in the Garden of Eden, YHVH tells the woman, “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children”. (Genesis 3:16b) If the woman had never experienced the birthing process, then why would YHVH tell her he would increase her sorrow and conception? If she had never given birth, then He would only need to tell her that in sorrow she would bring forth children.

Now in Genesis chapter 5, Scripture records something else pertaining to our discussion here. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created man, in the likeness of Elohim made He him; male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” (Genesis 5:1-2) YHVH, who in the day He created the human being, created them being both male and female, and YHVH blessed and called that being Adam in the day that He created the human being. The human being was created in the likeness and image of YHVH, and if YHVH is unified (echad), then the human being was unified (echad) in the one body, both male and female.

Unfortunately, because the human being was a model and not the original, the model could not do everything that the original could. Imagine, women, if you had to share a body with your husband or a man, and men imagine you had to share a body with your wife or a woman? Things would not work too well, because you could not get everything both of you needed to accomplish in a days time. So YHVH separated the female side from the male side, and built a body completely for her so that she may function properly in the task she was given, which was to aid the male side.

Our physical marriage is to be just like YHVH. We imitate the relationship that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have within YHVH. Our physical marriage is also the physical form of the spiritual marriage we have with YHVH. That is why husbands are to treat their wives just as YHVH treats us, and wives, you are to treat your husband the way you treat YHVH. For you are bone of YHVH’s bone and flesh of YHVH’s flesh, and the Son left His Father to come and become unified in flesh with His wife, which is each and every disciple of His, and so we become actually His body, so that we are no more two beings, but a unified (echad) being. This is the mystery of which Paul talked about in Ephesians chapter 5, which YHVH willing, we shall do.

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