Adam and Eve

Genesis Week 1 Feb 13, 2011
Adam and Eve
Opening – Who has had some surgery? How did you feel when you woke up?
Genesis 1:26, 2:7-8 God formed man from dust. "Formed" (Heb. yasar) means to shape or mold and implies that God deliberately did this with tender loving care. It describes the work of an artist (cf. Job 10:8-9).
God made man.

Genesis 2:15-17 Edenic Covenant
What responsibilities was Adam given in these verses?
Cultivate and keep the garden
Eat from any tree, but don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
How did Adam respond to his responsibilities?

Genesis 2:18-25 The Wife
Why did God make a wife for Adam?
It was not good for him to be alone.
In God’s image – the Trinity is not alone.

What did the scene look like in V22? (God bringing Eve to Adam).

What do these verses tell us about marriage?
God instituted it.
God intended it to be monogamous.
God intended it to be heterosexual.
It sets a priority of relationships above the parent/child relationship.
In involves physical and spiritual unity.

What causes disunity in a marriage relationship?
How does not be unified affect the people in the marriage?
What things promote unity in a marriage?
How does unity affect the marriage?