Posted on 02/14/2017 7:36:56 AM PST by Salvation
Thank you. It’s my own. I may be ready for Twitter now. :)
Strongs Concordance אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam’; to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy:—be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
Adam’s love for his bride failed at the garden when Adam said to God, “My will be done.” Choosing to participate in his wife’s sin over God was Adam loving & choosing himself and his flesh over God’s love.
The Second Adam’s love for his bride was unfailing when he said to his Father, “Not my will, by yours be done.” Jesus and his flesh didn’t want to go through the unimaginable suffering of the cross. But his love and trust in his Father was greater than his love and trust in himself and his flesh.
I love all these stories. Good topic for Valentine's Day. Before Eve was created, God noted that there was no match to help Adam. No match to help him out! The order of the verses is really funny then:
Gen 2
16. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die:
18. And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help to match him:
19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name:
20. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the bird of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help to match him:
...in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die: And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help to match him.
That tree'll kill ya! How if I go make a match now...
Hysterical (pun intended)
hysteric (adj.) 1650s, "hysterical; relating to or affected with hysteria; emotionally disordered and frantic," from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos "belonging to the womb" (see hysterical, which is the more common adjective). As a noun, "one who is hysterical," from 1751.
It continues...
21. And the Lord God made Adam fall into a deep sleep, and he slept; and He took one from his ribs, and closed up the flesh:
22. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man:
23. And Adam 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:
Adam: "Woo-hoo this one matches! My own bones and my own flesh! Score!"... ooops.
Eve blamed the serpent. Adam blamed God. “That woman You gave me, etc.”
Eve should have blamed Adam then, and Adam himself.
Crazy stupid awful cliches. Who ever listens to his wife?
After that whole fiasco, after everything had been cursed, is when (verse 20)
... Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living:
The mother of all living.. Indeed. Strolling through the garden naming this, naming that. Running out of notepads; pens running dry. Probably a few leakers in the bunch too. It was a veritable dead zone before these two hooked up.
Pretty good match, I'd say. ;)
Adam: She came onto me!
Adam: She is hot!
Adam: Because she let me...!
Clearly, it wasn’t just dumb luck that the serpent approached Eve rather than Adam.
She was deceived. He ate willingly and knowingly.
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We’ll probably never know for sure.
Angels are only male.
Eve listened to the devil, a superior intellect.
Adam listened to a woman.
This was discussed in the marriage encounter weekend my wife and I took while engaged. The point that was emphasized was that Adam was charged with the duty — by God — to tend and keep the garden.
Keep is an interesting word. It can mean to protect, guard, maintain (e.g. keep safe). In fact as a noun, a keep is also a heavily reinforced final refuge in a castle.
If Adam was doing his job, he would have been alarmed at the presence of the serpent. The verses I’ve read of Genesis suggest that he was much more passive and neglectful of the duties he was charged with by God.
Actually, Eve knew all of that. She even said as much to the serpent, including the instructions to not even touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the serpent explicitly lied about the matter of “surely d(ying)” to boot.
Adam did not hear that story from either Eve or the serpent. He willfully ate the fruit.
The willingly ignorant spouts off.
To: Heterosupremacist
**The willingly ignorant spouts off.**
Whatever. We can plainly see who ‘spouted off’. We can also plainly see that you are WAY OFF course on your spiritual journey, and we can only pray that you might reconsider...
Who is the 'we'?... I did not write the Scripture. And I sure as hell am not going to PC it. Adam and Eve did NOT receive an apple in an apple orchard. As I was told in childhood. Adam and Eve were in a 'fig' grove when they rolled around with the devil. PERIOD. How do I know this, because Scripture says so. What fruit have you ever eaten and it made you realize you were butt naked? You and your 'we' are spiritually dead.
“Who is the ‘we’?... I did not write the Scripture. And I sure as hell am not going to PC it. Adam and Eve did NOT receive an apple in an apple orchard. As I was told in childhood. Adam and Eve were in a ‘fig’ grove when they rolled around with the devil. PERIOD. How do I know this, because Scripture says so. What fruit have you ever eaten and it made you realize you were butt naked? You and your ‘we’ are spiritually dead.”
You are obviously imbalanced, do not reply.
Thank you for that analysis.
Excuse me? Who the .ell do you think you are? Read the Scripture for yourself and then you can discern where the literal imbalance lies. I did NOT write the Scripture.. and I sure will not ignore what warnings were sent us in this generation.
Time to put children’s fairy tales to bed and deal with what God had His elect pen.
**Choosing to participate in his wife’s sin over God was Adam loving & choosing himself and his flesh over God’s love.**
Indeed Adam did choose his flesh over God; and his flesh included his wife:
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh......and they shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:23,24
That, of course, doesn’t make their two souls one soul. But I think Adam was very much bonded to her, even to the extent that he would follow her choice instead of God.
Put yourself in Adam’s situation: she is part of him. Did he think to himself, “I’m going to lose her, because she is going to die for what she has done.”
Maybe he thought, “well she ate it and is still alive”. And then he made his ungodly choice.
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