Two Adams and Eden

TWO ADAMS AND EDEN
PROF. M. M. NINAN

TWO ADAMS AND EDEN
PROF. M. M. NINAN
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE:
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GEN 1 AND 2 CREATION STORIES 1
CHAPTER TWO:
ADAM 24
CHAPTER THREE:
TWO ADAM THEORY
A. ADAM KADMNON & ADAM 34
CHAPTER FOUR:
TWO ADAM THEORY
B. HUNTER GATHERERS & SETTLED FARMERS 47
CHAPTER FIVE:
MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM 63
CHAPTER SIX:
LILITH: ADAM’S FIRST WIFE 73
CHAPTER SEVEN:
ADAM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 88
CHAPTER EIGHT:
THE GARDEN OF EDEN AS GOD'S SANCTUARY 102

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PREFACE
While we claim to be interpreters of the Scripture and support a literal interpretation of the word directly
given by God to Moses, it is surprising that most scholars refuse the idea that there are two creation stories
in Genesis. Two different names of God - Elohim and YHVH of Elohim - are clearly mentioned who both
created Man. Elohim who is considered as a plurality acting one with the entire sons of God in all
dimension created mankind as many people on earth, in male and female form reflecting the image of the
plurality within the Elohim. In contrast YHVH of Elohim is a single person who formed Adam out of the
earth and gave life through breathing on the form. While the first Adam Mankind consisted of many with
male and female, the second Adam was neither male or female but one person who was later operated
upon by YHVH to separate the Female from Adam to form a pair Adam and Eve. There are numerous other
differences. Thus a simple direct textual reading give two creation events. It is difficult to identify them as
one event.
However for some reason this literal reading is heavily discouraged giving us a 6000 year old earth from
Adam and Eve. The problem is that there are real scientific evidences of fossils of humankind dating millions
of years or even trillions of years. Yet if it is taken as dual creation and taken at the simple literal meaning
as is read, everything will fit together with science and scripture in consonance. God is the author of both the
books - scripture that is directly spoken to Moses and nature as we understood when we "till and keep" into
the creation. We have developed theology and science to interpret them.
If they don’t agree something is wrong with our human interpretation of either or both. Are we misreading
any of them?
The fear seems to be that any such acceptance may mean an acceptance of evolution of man from the
bacteria and plants to monkeys and man. What I try in this study is to look into these realities and explain
the scripture as it is read and understood by anyone without any preconceived assumptions. Scripture to
me is in perfect consonance with the observed scientific evidence.
I present this study for what it is worth for the scientific community within the faith community for a renewed
look.
Prof.M.M.Ninan
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TWO ADAMS AND EDEN
CHAPTER ONE
THE DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN GEN 1 AND 2 CREATION STORIES
Apparently the book of Genesis includes two very different creation stories with major differences. .
The first, “Genesis 1” runs from verse 1:1 to the middle of 2:4 (2:4a).
The second, “Genesis 2,” runs from verse 2:4b to 2:25.
For convenience I give below the full biblical quote from Genesis side by side.
Genesis 1:1 - 2:4a Genesis 2: 4b - 25
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the
light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord
God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for
the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground.6 But there
went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face
of the ground.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.8 And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
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together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.12 And the
earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.13 And the evening and the
morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:15 And let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so.16 And God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars also.17 And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,18 And to
rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness: and God saw that it was good.19 And the evening
and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and
fowl that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.21 And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.22 And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the earth.23 And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after his kind: and it was so.25 And God made the
beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and
every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God
saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
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28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in
Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
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be for meat.30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat:
and it was so.31 And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day.
Genesis 2King James Version (KJV)
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them.2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work
which God created and made.
formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted, and became into four
heads.11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is
gold;12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium
and the onyx stone.13 And the name of the second river is
Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of
Ethiopia.14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel:
that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:17 But of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was
the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl
of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
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she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
We have two option in treating with the Genesis 1 and 2.
These are:
1. They are continuation of the creation story in a consecutive way holding the view that Moses
wrote them down in accordance with the revelation he received from God directly on the Mount of
Zion.
2.They are two separate creation stories collected in accordance with the Document Hypothesis in
opposition to the authorship of Moses under the revelation of God. Or it is a continuation of the first
story giving detailed accounts simply expanding on it.
There is a third option which are not often even considered for fear that it may tread the
conventional interpretations. It is the possibility and the consequence of this third option that form
the major portion of this study.
One major contention is that both these refer to the one and the same Adam. The logic of this is
strenuous. Here is it
Multiple Versions need not be distinct events.
Genesis 1 and 2 is not the only place in the Bible where two different versions of the same story are
placed side-by-side. For example,
there are two genealogies in Genesis 4 and 5
two accounts of the spread of humanity in Genesis 10 and 11.
There are also two distinct histories of Israel, one in Samuel/Kings and the other Chronicles,
and
four distinct tellings of the story of Jesus - four gospels.
If this is the right interpretation
they are not separate different stories
nor
are they the sequence continued.
They are the same story told from different view points with different focuses.
Having given an outline in the first story, the second story go on to expand, giving details of the first.
This is a common technique and need not be of concern. As such there is sufficient reason to
consider the two creation stories as one and the same story where the second takes up the details
of the first.
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If we take up this logic we need to see whether it justifies the claim. Are they in consonance with
each other? Are there conflicts in the stories that render the argument invalid?
THESE ARE THE DIFFERENCES.
https://biologos.org/blogs/guest/israels-two-creation-stories-part-1/P60;
http://barrybandstra.com/rtot4/rtot4-04-ch1.html;
Different Literary Styles: Liturgical Petry vs Narrative
Genesis 1 and 2 are not written in the same literary style.
Some label Genesis 1 as “poetry” and Genesis 2 as “narrative.”
Gen 1 is a liturgy with intermittent repetition of
"God said…….",
"and it was so",
….….
"there was evening and morning day x"
In typtical luturgical form.
Or it can be thought of as a poem with rhythmic repetition.:
Gen 2 : In contrast, most readers understand Genesis 2 as a different kind of text a direct narration
of a story.
Then Hebrew Bible exhibits not just two literary styles, but a spectrum of styles.
Different Views of God: Transcedent Spirit vs Present Father
A more important difference between the two creation
stories is how God is presented.
In Genesis 1,
God is transcendent:
he is hovering over the waters;
he is above it all,
declaring things to be so.
He is sovereign over creation, like a high king giving orders.
He creates, but from a distance.
This is the piicture of an Omni God and who is a spirit who has no form and whom we cannot
understand or know.
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In Genesis 2
God is not aloof or distant.
He is more “down to earth,” almost human-like.
He participates in the affairs of man.
Here we see a God who has conversations with Adam, Eve,
and a serpent;
He takes a stroll in the Garden with his son and daughter;
He seeks the hiding children and interrogates Adam and
Eve to gain information about what happened;
He disciplines them.
The picture evidently is that of a Father who is in
communion with His creation. Apparently he seems to have a human form and works with his
hand to form and breaths with his mouth.
God’s Names: Elohim vs YHVH Elohim
In Genesis 1, the narrator refers to God as Elohim, translated “God” in English Bibles.
In Genesis 2, the narrator refers to him as Yahweh Elohim, translated “LORD God.” We could
probably translate it as YHVH of Elohim.
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https://bible.org/question/does-ielohimi-gen-11-mean-god-or-gods gives this explanation on
Elohim.
The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol. I, Moody Press, Editor, R. Laird Harris,
Associate Editor, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Associate Editor, Bruce K. Waltke, has the following to say
about Elohim:
ELOHIM
Does Elohim in Gen. 1:1 mean God or gods?
The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol. I, Moody Press, Editor, R. Laird Harris,
Associate Editor, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Associate Editor, Bruce K. Waltke, has the following to say
about Elohim:
Elohim. God, gods, judges, angels.
Elohim:Plural Majesty:
This word, which is generally viewed as the plural of eloah, is found far more frequently in Scripture
than either el or eloah for the true God. The plural ending is usually described as a plural of majesty
and not intended as a true plural when used of God. This is seen in the fact that the noun elohim is
consistently used with a singular verb forms and with adjectives and pronouns in the singular.
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Elohim: Unity of God allowing for plurality of Persons
Albright has suggested that the use of this majestic plural comes from the tendency in the ancient
near east toward a universalism:… a better reason can be seen in Scripture itself where, in the very
first chapter of Gen, the necessity of a term conveying both the untiy of the one God and yet
allowing for a plurality of persons is found (Gen. 1:2, 26). This is further borne out by the fact that
the form elohim occurs only in Hebrew and no other Semitic language, not even in Biblical
Aramaic…
The term occurs in the general sense of deity some 2570 times in Scripture. Yet … it is difficult to
detect any discrepancy in use between the forms El, Eloah, and Elohim in Scripture.
When indicating the true God, Elohim functions as the subject of all divine activity revealed to man
and as the object of all true reverence and fear from men. Often, Elohim is accompanied by the
personal name of God, Yahweh.
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.…………..In Deuteronomy 6:4, the well known passage called the Shema (from the Hebrew word
meaning “to hear”), Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!,” the word one is echad,
which refers to one, not in the absolute sense, but one in the collective sense, like one bunch of
grapes. Thus, even this passage does not destroy the concept of the trinity. While the trinity is not
explicitly stated in either the Old or New Testaments, it is implicitly taught in a number of ways, but
especially in the New Testament. …..
A careful study of the New Testament demonstrates that not only did the authors of the New
Testament declare that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, but Christ himself believed and declared
himself to be God and one in essence with the Father. The idea that he was only a god is
polytheism, a concept totally contrary to both the Old and New Testaments. ….
The passage in John 1:1 can in no way can be made to say that Jesus was only a god who was
with the Father. It dramatically says that he is God of very God, yet distinct from the Father as God.
The fact that “God” (Greek theos) is without the article does not mean “a god,” but, again, according
to Greek grammar, is designed to stress the undiminished deity of the Logos, “the Word.”
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In order to avoid any attempt to be polytheistic it is necessary to understand that the only reality is
God. There is nothing outside of him. There is no inside or outside since God has no dimensions
and if at all He fills it all. So if He has to create, He has to create a space within him and then
create there. He has to hide to give them freedom even though He cannot really be absent.
Hence even the creation is part of God. With what else and where else can He create? When
the creation is a person, the person become part of God. When they have freewill to act and
create they are usually called Sons of God. They become co-creators with God to some extent
within the dimensions God permits taking what is already there and forming. This evidently restricts
God's authority within those regions. Thus this involves a voluntary sacrifice on the part of God.
This is what is stated as " the lamb slain before the foundation of the world." There are Sons of God
in all dimensions of creation and they are part of God and they are co-creators with God with the
power given to them by God. Since to a limited extent the Sons of God can create - they can
transform the world of their own within the limit. This is what provides the evolution. But it is
limited to evolution within the species - which is referred to in Genesis as "in its own kind" Only the
absolute God head (let us call Him El) can create from nothing. All Sons of God can only form or
shape what is already there. It is this group that should be really be assumed to be referred in
Genesis creation story as Elohim.
In contrast YHVH is one of the members of the Elohim - a special member. In Christianity we
believe in a triune god where there are three -referred to as Father, Son and Holy Spirit - who are
special and share the essence of Godhead. On the other hand since God provides the space for
the existence of Sons of God, they do not have the essence of God, they only have the emanations
of God which is their content. Whenever a form of God is seen or experienced it is Jesus who is
indirectly indicated. If God has a form, that is in the Son of God Jesus since he shares both the
essence and the emanation. In the Eastern Churches we have concept that every son of God can
grow into the likeness of God - known as theosis..Thus all these sons of God in all dimensions
headed by the Trinity family form Elohim. They are indeed many. They all take part in the
creation to some extent.
Thus all the creation together is One in God.
This form the Elohim.
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Thus it is my contention that Elohim represents the whole of the Trinity (including YHVH) along with
the whole creation- the Sons and even other lower forms of creation. They represent many.
Whereas YHVH Elohim is to be identified as YHVH of Elohim - one of the Elohim which we can
identify with preincarnate Jesus - the Son of God especially in view of Paul's declarations.
Hebrews 1:2 says, “In these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of
all things, and through whom also he made the universe.”
Christ is the agent of God’s creation; the world was created “through” Him. The Father and the Son
had two distinct functions in creation yet Father, Son and the Holy Spirit along with all the sons of
God worked together to bring about the cosmos. John says, “All things were made through [Jesus],
and without [Jesus] was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3, ESV). The apostle Paul
reiterates: “There is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and
there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1
Corinthians 8:6).
We are even today called to be the co-creators with the universe where we are placed to till and to
keep.
I have spent time on these definitions because it is the foundation of my interpretations.
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The setting of the scene for creation is different in these two
accounts.
Genesis 1 begins with pre-existent chaotic matter—darkness and a watery deep—that is about to
be “tamed” by God during the six-day sequence. The spirit of God hovers over the deep, and
begins the creation sequence by first making light (1:3-5) and then dividing the waters (1:6-10).
Genesis 1 shows how God makes habitable what is uninhabitable. Chaos made Order.
Genesis 2 depicts a similar transition from inhabitable to habitable, but it does not describe the
primordial state in the same way.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep.
Instead, we find ourselves in a land that is not yet fully habitable.
Gen 2: 4- 5 in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the
field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Are these the same state of transition described in a different way or do they describe totally
different states of existence. The gap theory would suggest that they are the same situation
causing a desolation and both explain that state from which recreation start. Or were there a
second fall and a second generation also?
Evidently the second creation does not start from total desolation of "without form and void" nor in
"darkness". It was not fully in a state for proper settled inhabitation.
There was no man to till the ground because mankind has not learned agricultural methods. There
was no rain or agricultural crops.
Different Methods of Creating: Royal Method by Order vs. Artist
By hand process
In Genesis 1, Elohim creates as a sovereign monarch giving orders from on high. God speaks “let
there be” and things come into existence. He separates and divides, places the lights in the
heavens, names, and blesses his activity. Elohim created Adam in their own image male and
female. No specific method is described. If we take up the method of Elohim who are spirits, the
creation was using divine words. Adam was in Male and Female. Adam here is not made with
matter or pre-existing material but only in the image of pre-existing beings. Were they only spirits?
Or the image was made from clay? But they were given dominion over all creation and were
asked to multiply. He then rests, observing from above a job well done. Here he is called Adam.
obviously it could man mankind. And they were place not in Eden but on the earth. Probably ‏.אדם
this creation covered all continents of the earth.
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In Genesis 2 YHVH of Elohim creates in a more down-to-earth hands-on fashion. Yahweh does not
speak life into existence from on high. Rather the two creation stories describe God’s methods of
creating in two different ways.
He forms the man from the earth like a potter (he also forms the animals). To animate this former
lump of earth, God breathes life into him. He plants a garden. In order to give the man a suitable
companion, he induces sleep on the man and (literally) builds a woman from part of the man’s side.
In contrast to Gen 1 Elohim creation of Adam YHVH Elohim puts his hand on the pre-created
matter and forms Adam as androgynous -alone- and gives him life by breathing on him - a part of
Divine and creates a new soul over and above other life forms. In this case the addition YHVH gave
was a new dimension of existence - a soul similar to YHVH. Adam was given the status of the son
of God. Here he is called ha-Adam ה-אדם or the specific Adam- "the Adam". This could not mean
mankind but one particular man. Does this not suggest that God created mankind humanoids
before this particular Adam. We see the lineage of Adam takes us to around 4000 BC and they
started agriculture around the same period according to archeologists. So there existed a prior
humanoid race before our Adam who was created around 6000 years ago? Is the bible saying
that?
Different Order of Events
Genesis 1 and 2 not only begin with a different primordial scene.
They also have distinct descriptions of what happens next, both in order and content.
Genesis 1 describes the ordering of primordial chaos in the following sequence:
First, God creates the habitable space: light, separation of waters, dry land (days 1-3).
Second, he fills the space: plants, heavenly lights, sea and sky creatures, land animals, and
humans (male and female together )at the end (days 4-6).
Genesis 2 follows a different order.
” God creates ha-`adam (the man, or a specific Adam) out of dust
and before there is any plant life (Genesis 1 says plant life preceded humanity)
Next he creates a garden and puts the man there to till and to keep.
After placing the man in the garden, God creates animals for him as helpers.
Then, finding no suitable helper for man among the animals, God forms the woman out of the
man’s side (whereas in Gen1 male and female were created together on the sixth day).
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Plants on day 6
Particularly noticeable is the fact on the creation of the vegetation.
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https://creation.com/adam-and-the-animals-day-6: Tim Chaffey, AiG–U.S., explains.
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The “Problem
Elohim creation:
"Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree
that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the
earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields
fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and
the morning were the third day." (Genesis 1:11–13)
YHVH of Elohim creation
"This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord
God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any
herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there
was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the
ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living being. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there
He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow
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that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." (Genesis 2:4–9)
The Solution
On the third day of the Creation Week God made certain types of plants:
“"grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree"” (Genesis 1:11).
> grass (deshe’),
the seed-yielding herbs (‘eseb mazria zera), and
the fruit trees (ets pariy).
Beginning with the fourth verse of Genesis 2, on the sixth day.
God made Adam (v. 7), the Garden of Eden along with the plants therein (specifically mentioned
are the fruit trees, vs. 8–9), and Eve (v. 22).
Verses 5 and 6 provide a description of what the world was like prior to the creation of man.
Two specific types of plants are translated from specific Hebrew terms:
> “plant of the field” (siah hassadeh) and
“herb of the field” (eseb hassadeh).
Hebrew scholar Mark Futato defines these terms as:
> “wild shrubs of the steppe” and
“cultivated grain”
>> The herbs of the field were not around because Adam had not been created yet, so
there was no one to till or cultivate the ground.
>> The “wild shrubs of the steppe” are plants that often have thorns, and these thorns
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In Genesis Chapter One
Elohim Created
In Genesis Chapter Two
YHVH of Elohim formed
Image of God In the image of God No mention of the image of God
Male and Female
vs male alone
Bara vs yatsar
Created vs Formed
No breath of life
Vs
Breath of life
4. Fruitful and
Multiply
From creation vs
after flood
5.
6. Nature of Animals
and Plants
7.Rain
8.
They all (plural) were CREATED.
Adam alone (singular) is FORMED.
Created is Hebrew word #1254
Formed is Hebrew word #3335
bara'
yatsar
"...in Eden; and there he put the man
"...male and female created He
whom he had formed" (Gen. 2:8).
them" (Gen. 1:27).
They are created male and female at
Adam is formed some time before Eve.
the same time. No 'Adam's Rib
She later being made from him.
here!
They were simply created since they
were created in the image of God,
they probably would have had the Adam given the breath of life,
freedom of choice and was a living became a living soul.
soul by nature.
No such command given to Adam and Eve
They are told to multiply.
(Adam's family was told to multiply after
"...Be fruitful and multiply..." (Gen.
the flood; i.e., Noah's family was told in
1:28).
Gen. 9:1).
Mankind given dominion over
animals and fish. Co-Regent to God
The animals were wild animals and
the plants were wild plants.
No names given.
There was not yet rain.
Adam was a farmer. Slave of God. He
needs to be released from the bondage.
They were domestic animals
and crop plants.
Adam named these.
"...went up a mist from the earth..."
(Gen. 2:6)
The creation was completed. All the But after that, in Gen. 2:5, YHVH saw that
various races, men and women He "did not have a man to till the ground"
alike, were created. THEN ---->>> (farmer). So YHVH FORMED Adam.
Different Process in creating
In Genesis 1:27 humans (Hebrew adam) are created on the sixth day. These humans are both
male (zakhar) and female (neqeyvah) and they are created en masse and simultaneously. Genesis
1 speaks of the mass creation of humans (male and female) at one time. Eve is not mentioned at all
as being created or given as Adam's wife.
In Genesis 2 one male (adam) is formed from the ground (adamah). Then later, in a separate
creative act, one woman (ishah) is formed from the man (ish). Genesis 2 begins with one man, then
one woman from the man in a separate act.
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The difference in vocabulary reflects the difference in perspective.
If we carefully read the two creation stories we see two ways of creating Adam. In the first
creation story, Adam was created by the word of God following the other creation modes of
previous days. He was created in the image of God - evidently then not from the earth - but as a
spirit being. They were created in the image of God male and female
In contrast the Adam in the second creation was made from the dust of the earth formed by the
hands of God and then gave life by breathing. He has evolved partly from existing matter and
given life or soul specifically as part of God in God's breath. This suggests that the second Adam
was not the same Adam as the first. The first Adam was a spirit probably with his wife also a spirit.
We are not told anything about his wife in the creation story. Second Adam was a physical man
with a spirit of God - a divine soul - received directly from God.
The Hebrew language has three different words that denotes the processes in creation which may
be translated as Made, Created and Formed : asah, bara, yatsar.
The differences between make/made, create and form are:
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- ברא - ‘Separated’ BARA - ‘Created’,
Asah – aw-saw' - - to use existing material and make something from it, like fabrication when
material goes into a factory and is fashioned into an item. - e.g., Gen. 1:7 And God made the
firmament, ….”
Yatsar – yaw-tsar' - - to form, slowly and in several steps, usually over time. A potter casting a
pot; a baby formed in the womb. – e.g., Gen. 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of
the ground, …. Yatsar is not found in the first creation account with its day-by-day details. This
first use of yatsar in the Bible, at this verse, refers to all the creation process.
Bara: to shape or create
Asah: to do or make
Gen. 1:1
Gen. 1:7
Gen. 1:16
Gen. 1:21
Gen. 1:25
Gen. 1:27
Gen. 2:3
Gen. 1:31
Gen. 2:3
Gen. 2:4
Gen. 2:4
Gen 2:7
Gen. 3:1
Gen. 3:7
Gen. 3:21
Gen. 5:1
Gen. 5:2
Gen. 6:6
created the heavens and earth
made the expanse between the waters above and below
made the sun, moon and stars
created the sea creatures and birds
made all land creatures
created man (both male and female)
created and made all His works
all that He made
all His works which God created and made
made heaven and earth
created heavens and earth
formed the man out of the dust of the ground.
made the beasts of the field
made loin clothes from fig leaves
made garments from animal skins
made man (referring to both male and female)
created male and female
made man
Gen. 7:4 destroy every living thing that I have made
Gen. 9:6 man made in the image of God
Ps. 89:47 created all the sons of men
Ps. 104:30 created sea creatures
Ps. 148:5 created heavens, heights, angels, hosts, sun, moon and stars
Is. 40:26 created stars
Is. 40:26 created trees, rivers
Is. 54:16 created the blacksmith and the destroyer
Ps. 121:2 made the heavens and the earth
Ps. 104:24 made the sea, sea creatures and land animals
Is. 41:20 done this, made the trees and rivers
Is. 43:7 made, created and formed man
Is. 45:18 made, formed, established and created the earth
Here are the references to the creation with terms involving "made", "created" and "formed"
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When nothing is in existence, God create, BARA. Here the created exists in more than the
dimensions which were before. But when the material is already there, He ASAH, made or formed
from the materials already there giving it a new form or shape combining what is already in
existence.
It is clear that in Gen. 1:27 God created man (both male and female). It was a creation out of
nothing or humankind was made in a higher dimension than the animals in existence. This mankind
lived in higher dimensions than the vegetation and the birds and beasts. But he did not partake of
the breath of life directly from God. He did not enter the divine dimension.
But in Gen 2:7 God formed the man out of the dust of the ground which was already there. And
given the breath of life by breathing into him. He gives him a divine soul and this man the Adam
was existing in the divine realms also. He was indeed a Son of God on earth
“The Lord God formed (yatsar ‏(יצַָר the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
The Hebrew word yatsar speaks metaphorically and analogically of God as the potter of Adam, but
also asserts the literal creation of the first man from the dust of the earth.
Further there are other strange differences. First, the Hebrew verb used for the fashioning of both
animals and humans is the same, yatsar, but when it is about animals (2:19), it is spelled yitser,
with double yod. This double yod is unique ‏'יָצַר when it is about Man (2:7), it is spelled yyitser יָצַר
and is not found anywhere else.. (https://www.skipmoen.com/2013/09/not-exactly/)
Secondly, the formation of Man includes both nephesh and neshama (breath of life)
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Neshama (Hebrew: נשמה ) is a Hebrew word which can mean "soul" or "spirit".
soul-breath of life (Nishmat Chaim). Man [thus] became a living creature (Nefesh Chaya)" (Genesis
2:7).
Neh'-fesh נֶ֫פֶשׁ)‏ népēš) Noun Feminine
soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion; that which
breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man; living being; living being
(with life in the blood); seat of the appetites; seat of emotions and passions; activity of mind;
activity of the will
Animals have only nephesh. "animal soul" (Nefesh HaBehamit) which is contained in the blood, i.e.
in the physio-chemical life processes. "The life-force of the flesh is in the blood" They cannot evolve
into a being with neshma because neshma is of a different dimension - not of the same kind.. If you
are locked inside one room, you cannot get out and go into a second room unless someone opens
the room and allow you that extension possibility.
Relationship with Humanity: Adam as tyrant ruler who subdues vs.
Adam as Priest cum Laborer : keeper
Genesis 1 presents humans as royal figures: they were created in Elohim’s image. Humans are
placed on earth to represent God and rule for him by being given dominion over what God has
made.
“Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth”
The Hebrew word for dominion in the biblical text is râdâh. Râdâh means dominion, reign,
to prevail against, and rule. It can also mean subjugation, to tread down upon,
and even crumble off (Brown, Driver, and Briggs 2008, p. 921; Strong 1979).
(https://www.quotescosmos.com/bible/bible-verses/Genesis-1-28-Be-fruitful,-and-multiply.html)
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Genesis 2 presents humans not as one who subjugate, but as servants in the garden.
Gen 1 speaks of “dominion” .
Gen 2 speaks of "till and to keep".
We will see that the word "till and keep" uses the same words assigned to the High Priestly job
indicating that he was to be the mediator between the rest of creation and God, transforming and
reforming them.
There is deeper aspect in the difference. In the kingdom of God one who rules over is not higher
than the one who is ruled. Instead one who serves is higher than the one who is being served. So
Adam was a tiller and keeper who is capable of forming from what is there. He cannot create out
of nothing but he can create and form from what is given.
The mankind as created in Gen1 has to enforce his will to make a living. “… [God] ordered
mankind to ‘subdue’ the earth" This mankind represents the hunter gatherer in contrast to Gen 2
Adam and Eve were to till and keep. We will take this up later. This has direct connection with the
next in connection with what they are in partaking of God’s king as co-creators and being
transformed into the likeness of YHVH.
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The domain of the two Adam are different:
Gen 1:26 "and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth .... 28 And God
blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish [rather, fill] the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.”
The domain here is all the earth - land, sea and the air : the fish of the sea, fowls of the air, cattle
and all the earth - no particular place.
Gen 2: 15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into
the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
The domain here is a particular place - the garden of Eden alone
somewhere in the east
and that only - to dress it and keep it.
If we assume that the two Adams are the same, then after his
creation and giving him’ dominion of the wide earth’, God took him ‘immediately or after a period of
time’ and put him in the Garden of Eden which God created to “till and to keep it”. It could also be
interpreted that God took one of the mankind whom He has created –‘ the Adam’ and put him in the
Holy Sanctuary of the earth – the Garden of Eden as the High Priest to the rest of mankind.
Do we agree with the Tablets Theory of DH?
The Documentary Hypotheses presents it without taking these narration as the direct revelation of
God to Moses who acted practically as a scribe to God, writing what he was told. Documentary
hypothesis is that the Book of Genesis (Luke 24:27, Luke 24:44) is written by Moses with help from
actual written records available in his time. There are indicators of where these records begin and
end. Note the phrasing of Genesis 2:4, 5:1, 6:9, 10:1, 11:10, 11:27, 25:12, 25:19, 36:1, 36:9, 37:2.
“Thus it is probable that the Book of Genesis was written originally by actual eyewitnesses of the
events reported therein. Probably the original narratives were recorded on tables of stone or clay, in
common practice of early times, and then handed down from father to son, finally coming into the
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possession of Moses. Moses perhaps selected the appropriate sections for compilation, inserted
his own editorial additions and comments, and provided smooth transitions from one document to
the next, with the final result being the Book of Genesis as we have received it.” (Morris)
We can see how much of a wide variation of explanations and hence variations in theory was
developed to explain all these. All attempts to make these two stories as one cannot explain all the
differences in the narratives.
An honest appraisal will suggest that the two creation stories are not talking about the
“same thing,”. They are two distinct stories of creation, both in terms of content and order. They
cannot be harmonized—they were never intended to be. They describe two creations one of a
mankind and other of a man Adam. We are not given what happened during the period in
between.
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https://creation.com/genesis-1-2 gives the following interpretation asserting that there is no
contradiction.
The recapitulation theory
"Real scholars understand that Genesis 1 (which really ends at 2:3) is the summary outline of
creation, while Genesis 2 focuses on the creation of man and explains it in more detail. This
recapitulation was typical for narratives of the Ancient Near East. As explained by Gleason Archer
(1916–2004), Professor of Old Testament and Semitics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,
Deerfield, Illinois:
"The technique of recapitulation was widely practiced in ancient Semitic literature. The author
would first introduce his account with a short statement summarizing the whole transaction, and
then he would follow it up with a more detailed and circumstantial account when dealing with
matters of special importance." [Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, p. 118, 1964.]
Leading Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen points out:
"Skeptics claim that" Genesis 1 states that God made the birds and beasts before man, while
Genesis 2:19 seems to state that God made birds and beasts after man. But the correct translation
of wayyitser in this verse is the pluperfect “had formed”, which eliminates the alleged contradiction.
"It is often claimed that Genesis 1 and 2 contain two different creation-narratives. In point of fact,
however, the strictly complementary nature of the ‘two’ accounts is plain enough: Genesis 1
mentions the creation of man as the last of a series, and without any details, whereas in Genesis 2
man is the center of interest and more specific details are given about him and his setting. There is
no incompatible duplication here at all. Failure to recognize the complementary nature of the
subject-distinction between a skeleton outline of all creation on the one hand, and the concentration
in detail on man and his immediate environment on the other, borders on obscurantism." [Kitchen,
Ancient Orient and Old Testament, pp. 116–117, 1966.]
Some translations introduce an apparent contradiction between Genesis 1 and 2 in Genesis 2:19,
by rendering the phrase “God formed every beast …”. That is, Genesis 1 states that God made the
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birds and beasts before man, while Genesis 2:19, if translated this way, seems to state that God
made birds and beasts after man. Evidently here the created and formed comes to importance. In
Gen 1 these were created from nothing but Gen 2 they were allowed to form to the Gen 2 in
evolutionary modifications The ESV and the NIV–1984 are correct in this passage.
As Lutheran Hebrew scholar H.C. Leupold points out:
"Without any emphasis on the sequence of acts the account here records the making of the various
creatures and the bringing of them to man. That in reality they had been made prior to the creation
of man is so entirely apparent from chapter one as not to require explanation. But the reminder that
God had ‘molded’ them makes obvious His power to bring them to man and so is quite
appropriately mentioned here. It would not, in our estimation, be wrong to translate yatsar as a
pluperfect in this instance: ‘He had molded.’ The insistence of the critics upon a plain past is partly
the result of the attempt to make chapters one and two clash at as many points as possible."
[Leupold, H.C., Exposition of Genesis 1:130, 1942]
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Traditionally, Moses has been taken to be the writer of both accounts.
to be differences between the chronologies of chapters one and two
If so, why do there appear
Genesis 2 does not go into the details of the creations of heavens and earth. The second
creation story opens with an introduction (Genesis 2:4) that closely mirrors Genesis 1:1: “This is the
account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens.” The verse in no way indicates that what follows is simply a more detailed look at
creation from a different perspective, as Young Earth Creationists claim; it says, “This is the
account.”
I have given both sides of the argument. Those who want to assert a 6000 year old universe and a
6000 year old mankind has to twist the words used with lot of ingenuity. If read entirely literally —
they are completely contradictory and irreconcilable unless we consider it as a randomly “cut and
paste” from various sources. Did Moses received the revelation as is from God directly or did he do
a lot research in Babylonian and other cultural pagan myths of his period to write the Pentateuch?
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CHAPTER TWO
ADAM
Major difference is that the first Genesis creation was done by Elohim and he created everything.
Man was created in the image of Elohim where we see Male and Female with equal status with
dominion over the animals that roamed and the fishes in the sea and the birds that flew.
The Second Genesis creation was done by YHVH of Elohim and the word used is "Formed" not
"created". The Second formed Adam was a tiller of the ground or a farmer. God creates Adam,
then places him in the Garden of Eden.
Afterwards, God decides to make a companion for Adam and creates the animals of the land and
sky to see if any of them are suitable partners for the man. God brings each animal to Adam, who
names it before ultimately deciding that it is not a “suitable helper.” God then causes a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam and while the man is sleeping God fashions Eve from his side. When Adam
awakes he recognizes Eve as part of himself and accepts her as his companion.
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In Gen. 2:7, The Lord God (YHVH of Elohim one of the group from Elohim called YHVH and not
the ‘Elohiym (the plurality of Gods under the Supreme Godhead); formed this particular man.
The Lord God YHVH of Elohim (and not the Elohim) blew the breath of life into this particular man;
In the 6th day creation, the animals were created before man
whereas in Gen 2:7, the animals were created after man;
in the 6th day creation, man was created both male and female
whereas in Gen 2:7 Adam was created, then the animals and then Eve.
All of these factors seem to indicate that the Gen. 1:26 & 27 creation account was a separate and
distinct event from that of Gen. 2:7.
http://www.aish.com/sp/ph/48956911.html
The word אָדָם (pronounced: au-dom)
is connected with the Hebrew words
(dam) “blood” and דַּם
“earth/ground”. (adamah) אֲדָמָה
Adam literally means "the red earth" or "earth with blood"
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Analysis of the Hebrew word Adam
Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabets and is normally has no sound - representing God who
cannot be seen or represented but out flowing breath. Adam would then is a combination of Alef
and the word Dam which would mean God in the blood. This is what happened when Adam was
created. God breathed into the life less red earth and Adam came out to be a living soul.
Adam carried the life force from God directly and not evolved from the earth. If we translate that
word "Adam" it would read "Dam" which is blood, and then "Au", which is the Hebrew abbreviation
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of "God," or in other words, "Blood of God." This is what made man unique in the midst of all other
life forms.
Notice that
is embeded within the masculine Adam. This is what God separated into Eve which is translated as
"mother of all living" God took out the middle rib and formed it into Eve - the mother of all living.
Adam is White, Blck, Red and Green
According to Targ. Yer. to Gen. ii. 7, God took dust from the holy place (as "the center of the earth";
and the four parts of the world, mingling it with the water of all the seas, and made him red, black,
and white (probably more correctly Pirḳe R. El. xi. and Chronicle of Jerahmeel, vi. 7:
"White,………………………………black,………..red,…………………and green— to spell it out
bones and sinews white; intestines black; blood red; skin of body or liver green"
Adam is Earth, Speech and Action
Adam: (57397/Adam Rishon). Adam is the first human being and an archetype for all humanity.
One Kabbalistic teaching reveals that the word ADaM is a mystical abbreviation for the essence of
human nature:
Adamah (earth),
Dibur (speech), and
Ma’aseh (action).
ADAM IS THE WHOLE PLANET EARTH
The Sibylline Oracles (iii. 24-26) and, following the same, the Slavonian Book of Enoch find the
cosmopolitan nature of Adam, his origin from the four regions of the earth, expressed in the four
letters of his name in Greek:
Four Regions of the Earth
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A……………D…………A………………M
Anatole (East), Dysis (West), Arktos (North), and Mesembria (South).
The whole earth is occupied by the three children of Noah:Ham, Cham and Japheth in Asia, Africa
and Europe the three continents of the earth.
The medieval T and O maps originate with the description of the world in the Etymologiae of Isidore
of Sevilla (died 636). The T is the Mediterranean, dividing the three continents, Asia, Europe and
Africa, and the O is the surrounding Ocean. Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of
the map. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined. Because the sun rose in
the east, Paradise (the Garden of Eden) was generally depicted as being in Asia, and Asia was
situated at the top portion of the map.
Saint Augustine in his book "Homilies on the Gospel according to St. John," says:
"And what man knoweth not that from Adam are sprung all nations, and that in the four letters of his
name, the four quarters of the world, as they are expressed in Greek, are indicated? For if the
words East, West, North, South, as Holy Scripture mentions them in very many places, are
expressed in Greek, the first letters, thou wilt find, make Adam. For the Greek names of the four
aforementioned parts of the world are Anatole, Dysis, Arktos, Mesembria. If these four names are
written, like four verses, one under the other, the capital letters form the word ADAM."
Anatole (East),
Dysis (West),
Arktos (North), and
Mesembria (South).
Further, Saint Augustine in his book "Expositions on the book of Psalms," says:
"He gathereth all His elect from the four winds therefore from the whole world. For Adam himself
(this I had said before) signifieth in Greek the whole world; for there are four letters, A, D, A, and M.
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But as the Greeks speak, the four quarters of the world have these initial letters, Anatola, they call
the East; Dysis, the West; Arctos, the North; Mesembria, the South: thou hast the word Adam."
Interesting. Why did God speak Greek then?
R. Meir (second century) mentions the tradition that God made Adam of the dust gathered from the
whole world; and Rab (third century) says: "His head was made of earth from the Holy Land; his
main body, from Babylonia; and the various members from different lands" (Sanh. 38a et seq.;
compare Gen. R. viii.; Midr. Teh. cxxxix. 5; and Tan., Peḳude, 3, end).
These are interesting memory and explanation tools to assert then Man is the ultimate creation of
the earth - the material dimension in this part of the universe..
Hebrew alphabet initially was pictograph which underwent changes in time to the present form.
Each letter in itself is loaded with basic explanation of a concept. We will try to get what Adam
actually mean using the method/
The first lettter is Alef.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/
The alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has no sound and its sound is produced by
the exhalation of breath.. It represents the power and hence God. That is the first letter of
El/Elohim which means God.
The original pictograph for this letter is a picture of an ox head representing strength and power
from the work performed by the animal. This pictograph also represents a chief or other leader.
When two oxen are yoked together for pulling a wagon or plow, one is the older and more
experienced one who leads the other. Within the clan, tribe or family the chief or father is seen as
the elder who is yoked to the others as the leader and teacher. (It is clear that this concept is
essentially developed within a nomadic cattle rearing tribal culture. The corresponding concept in the King
culture would represent this as a crown and in a modern democratic culture to the President. The idea is to
convey the highest power who controls everything by sheer words.)
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The Modern name for this letter is aleph and corresponds to the Greek name alpha and the Arabic
name aleph אלף.‏ The various meanings of this root are oxen, yoke and learn. Each of these
meanings is related to the meanings of the pictograph . The root (is an adopted root from the
parent root אל (el), written as in the original script, meaning, strength, power and chief and is the
probable original name of the pictograph. El is the generic form of God in Hebrew and almost all
Semitic languages.
Many Near Eastern cultures worshiped the god El. Israel chose the form of a calf (young bull) as
an image of God at Mount Sinai showing their association between the word and the ox or bull and
is also commonly used in the Hebrew Bible for "God" or "god." This will explain why when the
Israel kingdom was split into two, the Northern Kingdom put up a Bull as a place of worship so as to
avoid the northerners going to Jerualem temple to worship. Bull indeed was the legitimate sign of
Elohim. Thus El represent a generic name for God and should not be considered as a the Name
nor the sign of Ox as an idol.
In Modern Hebrew this letter is silent but was originally used as the vowels "a" and "e." The Greek
letter alpha, derived from the aleph, is also used for the "a" sound.
The second letter is Dalet
The dalet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and is the sound of “D.” The word picture for
dalet is “door”, (and sometimes the leaf of a gate or a page) it is something that opens.
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
— John 10:9
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
Me. — John 14:6
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these
things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.— II Peter 1:10-11
The last letter is Mem
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The Early Semitic pictograph for this letter is a picture of waves of water. This pictograph has the
meanings of liquid, water and sea, mighty and massive from the size of the sea and chaos from the
storms of the sea. The Modern Hebrew name for this letter is mem probably from the word mayim
meaning "water." The word mayim is the plural form of mah, probably the original name for this
letter, meaning "what." To the Hebrews the sea was a feared and unknown place, for this reason
this letter is used as a question word, "who, what, when, where, why and how", in the sense of
searching for an unknown. The Greek name for this letter is mu, which is a Hebrew word closely
related in roots and meaning to the Hebrew word mah. The sound for this letter is "m," as it is in all
other languages.
It also represents a womb from which life emerge. Hence we have Ma to mean mother.
Look at the pictogram of the ancient Hebrew word Adam it gives you the meaning "Powerful God
enters into the waters"
Thus we sea in the second verse of Genesis 1:2 "and the Spirit of God was moving over the
surface of the waters."
"It is the spirit that give life."
It is this that generated life on earth and heaven. Evidently the waters was associated with mother
and the it always referred to the waters of the womb.
Rabbis associated the letter mem with the womb
(Sefer Yetzira 3:4, Bahir 85, Etz Chaim, Shaar Hayereach 3, p. 176).
A closed mem is a closed womb; an open mem is the womb opening to give birth (Bahir 84).
Thus in the modern hebrew the sign for m developed into the sign of the womb. Again the letter ma
has two forms - one corresponding to the open womb and the other to closed womb. Open womb
sign occurs at the beginning and middle of a word and a closed womb sign at the end of a word.
This is clearly seen in the name of Mirium (Mary) as shown below.
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In order to represent this ultimate purpose of the creation of man we see the door in middle of the
womb and Elohim the Father. The result will be the birth of the sons of God. The whole mankind
was supposed to be part of Elohim as sons and daughters of God.
It can be read as "Adam; Son of God." Notice that Luke ends his genealogy of Jesus leading to
Adam and ending "Adam, Son of God" Luke 3:38.
As the Son and Daughter of God, Adam and Eve were with God inside the door in the Garden of
Eden, their home. As they declared their independence they were sent out of the Garden and
they closed their door. Today if they have to re-enter into the Eden with Father God they have to
open the door.
Mariam let the door open to the Holy Spirit of God. She remained faithful to her relation with God
eternally. From this came the concept that Mariam remained a virgin all her life. We still refer to
her as Virgin Mary.
Luke 1:38“I am the Lord’s servant, Mary answered. “May it happen to me according to your word.”
Dom: The Blood
ADAM = The Blood of God
ADAM = Son of God
If we translate that word "Audom" it would read "Dom" which is blood, and then "Au", which is the
Hebrew abbreviation of "God," or in other words, Adam would mean "Blood of God." Was the
serpent suggesting that mankind could be like God without this growing up? John 3: 3 Jesus
answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of
God…..6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."
Hebrew Gematria also gives the same interpretation
What is Gematria?
Hebrew does not have separate number symbols and uses the alphabet as numbers. This enable
us to read the words in Hebrew as numbers. People have elaborated this into a system of
ascribing meaning to the words in terms of numerology - the symbolism of numbers. Everyone
knows that numbers have special meaning symbolically in the bible. Commonly known symbolism
are:
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1 = Oneness of God 3 = Trinity 6 = Man 7 = Perfection 8 = Regeneration
This is the numerology or Gematria. Just as we elaborate the words in connection with their
associated meaning ( which is what we are doing in using the language to communicate) we can
explain the hebrew words in terms of their numbers as well. I have given these numbers for Adam
below.
Mem has two forms - one open giving 40 and other closed giving 600. The first gives choices and
the second gives a fixation or anchor. One is an open womb and the other a closed womb.
Both Earth and Humans are symbolically considered as the Bride. As long as they do not receive
God they remain an open womb and the number of Adam remains as 45 in potential with womb as
40 The open mem represents open revelations- revealed truths and the closed men represents
truth not revealed to everyone- "the secret things that belong to God"
However they are supposed to grow into the fullness and go from 40 to 600 the full potential of
Sonship of God by receiving God and be fixed in their groom as Jesus. Then the earthian Adam of
45 will bloom into Spiritual Adam encamping the entire Physical and Spiritual Realm of existence as
Sons of God. This is the purpose of God in his creation. YHVH created ADAM as his bride.
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The Mystery Of The Closed Mem By Daniel Botkin
http://jewishroots.net/library/prophecy/isaiah/isaiah-9-6/the_mystery_of_the_closed_mem_2.pdf
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"According to the rules of Hebrew grammar and spelling, a closed mem can appear only at the end
of a word. A closed mem is a final mem, and can be used only as the final letter of a word. There is
one place in the Hebrew Bible, however, where a closed mem occurs inside a word. This entry,
which defies the rules of Hebrew grammar and spelling, is found in Isaiah’s famous prophecy of the
coming Messiah:
"For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on his
shoulders; and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
Peace. There will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace, on the throne of David
and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on
and forever more (Isa. 9:6).
The closed mem appears within the word (l’marbeh), which is translated by
the phrase “to the increase.” The reader can see that the second letter of this word (reading
from right to left) is a closed mem. According to the Hebrew gramatical rule, it should be
an open mem (marbeh= “increase”), is spelled with a closed mem.
"Rabbis associated the letter mem with the womb (Sefer Yetzira 3:4, Bahir 85, Etz Chaim, Shaar
Hayereach 3, p. 176). A closed mem is a closed womb; an open mem is the womb opening to give
birth (Bahir 84). What does this tell us about the child in Isaiah's prophecy? It tells us that this child
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CHAPTER THREE
TWO ADAM THEORY
A. ADAM KADMNON & ADAM
Design of God vs. Realisation
Some midrash distinguish between two Adams:
The first creation on the sixth day (Gen.1) was not expressly stated as made from dust but clearly
stated as stamped in the image of Elohim. Elohim forms the first Adam. It was a collective design of
the ultimate model of humans by all the collective beings which included El the ultimate Father God
and YHVH the creative word of God, the mother who alone give life and all other beings they have
created who cooperates with the Holy Trinity as co-creators with them. They wrote the program
for the creation of Adam a part of the code is discovered by and is still visible to us in our DNA.
We also know that almost all living has similar DNA codes.
The Adam of Gen 2 was made from the dust of the earth was formed by YHVH of Elohim (the
creator of everythings visible and invisible) who then giving a direct emanation of his breath added
a special soul to this man of the earth. 'Adam became a living soul".
The first was a proto-type coded and programmed in heavenly computer. The second creation was
based on the heavenly image encoded by Elohim the entire technologists of the Council of God but
formed or built not by all of the Elohim but YHVH of Elohim one of the members of Elohim. The
code {image) is now realized in the four dimensional space-time in added dimensions by his
breath to be a living soul. The encoding can be seen and deciphered in the DNA even today. We
marvel at the code.
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The marvel of the DNA code
The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine
(G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases, and more than 99
percent of those bases are the same in all people. The order, or sequence, of these bases
determines the information available for building and maintaining an organism, similar to the way in
which letters of the alphabet appear in a certain order to form words and sentences
DNA bases pair up with each other, A with T and C with G, to form units called base pairs. Each
base is also attached to a sugar molecule and a phosphate molecule. Together, a base, sugar, and
phosphate are called a nucleotide. Nucleotides are arranged in two long strands that form a spiral
called a double helix. The structure of the double helix is somewhat like a ladder, with the base
pairs forming the ladder’s rungs and the sugar and phosphate molecules forming the vertical
sidepieces of the ladder.
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An important property of DNA is that it can replicate, or make copies of itself. Each strand of DNA in
the double helix can serve as a pattern for duplicating the sequence of bases. This is critical when
cells divide because each new cell needs to have an exact copy of the DNA present in the old cell.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/dna
DNA is a double helix formed by base pairs attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone.
"Human DNA has millions of on-off switches and complex networks that control the genes'
activities.
"DNA contains genes, which hold the instructions for life. The human genome is made up of about
3 billion “letters” along strands that make up the familiar double helix structure of DNA. Particular
sequences of these letters form genes, which tell cells how to make proteins. People have about
20,000 genes, but the vast majority of DNA lies outside of genes. ... At least three-quarters of the
genome is involved in making RNA ... it appears to help regulate gene activity There are "more than
4 million sites where proteins bind to DNA to regulate genetic function, sort of like a switch."
The whole creation with life has DNA which are similar basically but differs in details. They
diverge when the species changes. This is sometimes used by evolutionalists as a proof of
evolution from basic life form to human. However these changes can be used to identify the new
species and even the period when they are created by elohim in the process of creation. This
seems to indicate that Elohim used similar coding system but with less coding and lesser
dimensions in life. "The amount of difference in DNA is a test of the difference between one
species and another – and thus how closely or distantly related they are."
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"While the genetic difference between individual humans today is minuscule – about 0.1%, on
average – study of the same aspects of the chimpanzee genome indicates a difference of about
1.2%. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), which is the close cousin of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes),
differs from humans to the same degree. The DNA difference with gorillas, another of the African
apes, is about 1.6%. .. A difference of 3.1% distinguishes us and the African apes from the Asian
great ape, the orangutan. How do the monkeys stack up? All of
the great apes and humans differ from rhesus monkeys, for
example, by about 7% in their DNA." Though basic coding
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This Adam being the image of the Primordial Adam he was placed in the garden of Eden on earth.
He was created not by Elohim but by YHVH of Elohim in the image of the Heavenly Man.
Philo identifies the transcendent figure as the Heavenly Man, a realization of God’s invisible
image, which indeed is God’s Logos, identifying the Logos as the “eldest-born Image of God” (De
Confusione Linguarum 62-63). Thus, for Philo, the earthly man was made after the image of the
Heavenly Man - the only begotten Son of God
Since Genesis 1 describes the creation of Cosmos in all dimensions, the encoded Adam Kadmon is
indeed the coding for all dimension of existence. This is how Kaballah presents this coding from
the divine realm to physical realm. Adam when he was created extended from one end to the other
- from Physical to the Divine. He is supposed to have had seven souls, a soul for each dimension of
existence. In his Physical realm we know now that Adam was encoded as DNA encoding.
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(See https://biblebrisket.com/2014/03/17/twoadams/
which mentions Primary sources: B. Hagigah 12a; B. Bava Batra 58a; Pesikta Rabbati 48:2; Philo,
De Opificio Mundi 134-142; Philo, Legum Allegoriarum 1:31, 1:53, 1:88, 2:13, 2:4; Philo, De
Confusione Linguarum 62-63; Midrash Tanhuma, Tazri’a 2.)
The concept Adam Kadmon is common in many cultures.
Kaballah presents this idea in more detail.
Adam Kadmon in Kaballah (Primordial Man; also Adam Ila'a, "supreme man") is the first spiritual
World with all its ten worlds. He came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light
creating a space for physical reality to come into existence. Adam Kadmon is not the same as the
physical, Adam Ha-Rishon (Adam, the first man), who God created from the dust. The spiritual
realm of Adam Kadmon corresponds to the 10 sefirah (divine attributes or emanations generated
from God as He appears first as Trinity from Ein sof Aur . It is the divine will and program for
subsequent creation.. Adam Kadmon is divine light without vessels, i.e., pure potential with no
physical reality..
If we want to identify the Gen 1 Adam as the Adam Kadmon, we will have to identify the whole
creation of all the six days also as just a concept and not a reality and provide only a design - a
picture of the world to come in the mind of God. The six days of creation were just God's details on
the drawing board of His mind or the computer code of creation which included all dimensions of
existence from material to divine. Thus those existed only in the mind of God or on the cosmic
computer memory. The prayer of all co-creators is therefore is :"Thy Kingdom come, On Earth; As it
is in Heaven." This is exactly what YHVH of Elohim, the Son of God did in the execution of creation
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code as described in Gen 2 where he copied the Gen 1 plan as drawn in Heaven into Adam as the
Son of God with all potentialities open to Adam with freedom that sons of God has.
As Above; So below
While the design and details were made by Elohim, it was YHVH of Elohim , the Logos, the Son of
God who created the earthly real material Adam on the principle "As above, so below"
William Blake's "Ancient of Days" has been interpreted by some as a depiction of the transference
of the design into real material construction.
Though not put in modern computer programming terms all these directly points to Adam Kadamon
as a cosmic program of the image of the universe, the execution of which resulted into the universe
as we see today.In terms of the architecture, Adam Kadamon is the plan on paper from which the
YHVH of Elohim built the cosmic structure.
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From the Plan to Execution
Purusha Suktham - the Sacrifice of the Person Adam Kadamon in creation of Cosmos
The same idea of creation of the universe out of the image of a first cosmic man program (called
Purusha or Person) is also explained in the Purusha Suktham of Rig Veda written after 300 AD. It
explains how the cosmic man extended all universe and from his parts all parts of the universe are
made- an almost parallel concept as the Adam Kadamon.
Here is the starting point.
1. Then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter?
Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?
2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's
divider.
That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.
All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit.
4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit.
You can see the identity of the concepts and descriptions.
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Thus in this description we have two generations of gods already in existence after the cosmos
came in existence. It was after these the first Adam Kadmnon is sacrificed. The sacrifice or the
conversion of the encoded image into reality is done by all the gods together - the Elohim?
It is held that Purusha through a sacrifice of himself, brings forth, the animals, the three Vedas,and
the word.. Then follows a verse which states that from his mouth, arms, thighs, feet are all humans
born..The moon takes birth from the Purusha's mind and the sun from his eyes. Indra and Agni
descend from his mouth and from his vital breath, air is born. The firmament comes from his navel,
and so on.
The Purusha sukta holds that the world is created by and out of a sacrifice of the Purusha. The
LAMB slain from the beginning of creation. All forms of existence are held to be grounded in this
primordial sacrifice. The Purusha of Purusha Suktham evidently corresponds to the Adam
Kadamon of Jewish mysticism. The Dravids of India who produced the Upanishads belong to the
tribes of Heber and the children of Abraham. The very name which is used as generic form of God
after the arrival of Apostle Thomas is the world Ishwara derived from Isha Paran which literally and
exactly mean "Jesus is Lord".
The concept of Demiurge and creation by Demiurge and not Elohim causes imperfection.
Philo of Alexandria (20 BC to AD 50) understood Genesis 1 and 2 to be contradictory. For Philo
the direct agent of creation is not God himself but the Logos, the Word. Philo believes that the
Logos is "the man of God" "Demiurge" or " the shadow of God" that was used as an instrument
and a pattern of all creation, "Adam Kadamon".. The Logos converted unqualified, unshaped
pre-existent matter, "destitute of arrangement, of quality, of animation, of distinctive character and
full of disorder and confusion," into four primordial elements (Legum Allegoriarum;1.329).
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To understand this we need to get the concept of Demiurge.
In Platonic philosophy Demiurge is the Maker or Creator of the world. The idea is that God the Spirit
being holy beyond our understanding cannot create a lowly world, the world of matter. He cannot
dirty himself with the dirt. Hence He deputed all these menial work to one of his lower Spirits who is
called Demiurge. Demiurge being itself imperfect can create only an imperfect world.
In Gnosticism and other theological systems Demiurge is a heavenly being, subordinate to the
Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all
that is purely spiritual.
In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the
Demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical
universe. Demiurge in the Greek δημιουργός dēmiourgós, means "artisan" or "craftsman"
Alternative Gnostic names for the Demiurge include Yaldabaoth, Yao or Iao, Ialdabaoth and
several other variants. The Gnostics often identified the Demiurge with YHVH Elohim since YHVH
of Elohim is the first person who asserted Himself as I AM and YHVH Elohim is the creator as seen
in Gen 2.
Thus early Gnostic heresy presented the creator of the earth and Adam as someone who created
an imperfect world either because he himself was not able to create anything perfect or was evil
enough that he wanted to spoil the world for God. All these in all finer variation mixed up with
Greek philosophy and myth were in place early in the growth of Christianity.
See for details
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Demiurge
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adam-kadmon
http://www.sophian.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3557
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/themes/adam.php
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Now as we know the souls of all creatures in heaven and earth have their root in Adam Kadmon,
whether the souls of humans or souls of angels, and even in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms
there is some manifestation of “soul,” life of God. After all everything has their origin whether
organic or inorganic in God.
The souls of all creatures in heaven and earth
drawn from the body of Adam Kadmon
correspond with Adam Kadmon as the image and
likeness of Yahweh Elohim Tzavaot.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
beginning with God. All things came into being
through him, and without him not one thing came into
being. What has come into being in him was life, and
the life was the light of all people. The light shines in
the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.”
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Coding and creation
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THE THEORY OF ETERNAL CREATION
AND
MAN THE CO-CREATOR WITH GOD.
(From Logos to Trinity: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian .By Marian
Hillar 2012)
Proclus Diadochus (410-485 C.E.) the mathematician philosopher states that even in the theistic
system the world though generated must be eternal, because the "world is always fabricated ... is
always becoming to be."
The corporeal world is always coming into existence but never possesses real being. Thus God,
according to Philo, did not begin to create the world at a certain moment, but he is "eternally
applying himself to its creation" ( De Aeternitate Mundi; 83-84).
Thus the creation itself is in the process of generation based on the evolution with involvement of
God at the times when a transition is necessary. The creation goes on with the help of the
co-creators of God with the entrance of God only when it is needed due to mistakes of the
co-creator or when a total direction and transition is necessary or when new dimensions are
warranted. This concept thus gives space for uncertainty in evolution and hence freedom to the
beings to co-create with Logos himself and ultimately with God.
( Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis; 31-32).
Eternal Creation
Proclus demonstrated that even in the theistic system, the world, though generated, must be
eternal, because the "world is always fabricated, is always becoming ." (In Defense of the
Timaeus of Plafo against Objections Made to by Aristolte. in Fragments of the Lost Writings of
Proclus, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor ).
Proclus believed, as did Philo, that the corporeal world is always coming into existence but never
possesses real being. According to Philo, (Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World, in Taylor,
Fragments, pp. 35—107) Proclus's main argument was that if God did not always make the
world, he would be an imperfect Demiurge indigent of time. God did not begin to create the world
at a certain moment, but he is "eternally applying himself to its creation" (Prov. 1.7; Op. 7; net.
8344). For God is indirectly the creator or time. Philo contends that God thinks simultaneously with
his acting or creating; while he speaks (Logos), he creates (deed), and thus his Logos is his deed
Any description of creation in temporal terms, for example, by Moses, is not to be taken literally. It is,
rather, an accommodation to the biblical language
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Adam - Co-creator with God
Man remains a partner of God in the ongoing creative process. There are two distinct words in
Hebrew for creation: beri’ah and yetzirah. Beirah refers to creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing)
and hence can only be used of God. However Yetzirah describes creation out of preexistent
substance, and hence may be used both of God (after the initial act of genesis) and man. God has
no “partners” in the one-time act of beri’ah Gen 1:1 where the Heavens and Earth were "bara".
God created Adam, as His co-creator, in the ongoing process of yetzirah. Hence, man receives the
dominion over all that God created to continue the yetzirah evolution. When Man makes an error
in this yetzira process, God intervenes and rectification and redemption take place. This is the story
that continues in Genesis as fall and consequent intervention of God.
Thus the creation will be repeated as one fails to fulfill the purpose of God.
creation story, but the old story continued.
It is then not a new
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CHAPTER FOUR
TWO ADAM THEORY
B. HUNTER GATHERERS & SETTLED FARMERS
Mankind vs man
Another model for the two Adams is presented in this chapter. Here we assume that both the
creations describe real time creations on earth.
1:26 And God (‘elohiym) said, Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The correction here is in the translation :
It is not: "Let us make man in our image"
It should be; "let us make mankind in our image"
"In our image" and the mention of "let us make" is mentioned only in the creation of Adam by
Elohim only confirms that this image lies in the plurality. Elohim created man in many numbers in
male and female forms - a whole mankind just as Elohim is a plurality. As we have explained earlier,
Elohim consists of the Father, Mother and the Son within Trinity along with a host of other creations
in all dimensions of existence who are all part of the only reality - God.
Brown-Driver-Briggs 560
A d a m אָ‏ דָ‏ ם
"Adam can mean both One man or Mankind"
In fact two of the modern versions just translate it as mankind.
New International Version: Then God said, "Let us make mankind ( ‏(אָדָם in our image, in our
likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock
and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
New Living Translation: Then God said, "Let us make human beings ‏(אָדָם)‏ in our image, to be
like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild
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animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground." This is then referring to
creation of all the kindred of peoples and races in the world. This will make sense to Elohim's
usage "in our image" and "in our likeness"
He is talking to the council of Elohim before He started the creation of mankind. There were a host
of sons of God already in existence and they all formed part of God. God is the only reality and
since there can be nothing called outside of God, every creation is within God and part of God. In
every dimension there are creations that are sentient beings (in the image of God) that form part of
the creator as co-creators. God had given that authority to create to his Sons of God also in every
dimension of existence. It is the presence of these Sons of God that produces the order out of the
disorder in an otherwise chaotic devolution of the created world. This is the advantage and
disadvantage of the free will of the Sons of God. They can create or
destroy their world by choice.
If we are taking Elohim as the ultimate unknowable God who has no
form or shape, "the image of God" "likeness of God " would mean
nothing.
Now that we know Elohim includes all sentient creation within God by
that time when God began to create the heavens and the earth, the
only likeness and image is the plurality and male and female.
This is what is meant by it is evidently made clear in the verse by
definining the likeness as male and female and the use of "us" and
"our"
et - haAdam אֶת-הָאָדָם
The et ‘(aleph tav’) is a Hebrew grammatical sign of the definite direct object, not translated in
English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative. A direct object is a noun or pronoun
that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action. It answers the question “What?”
or “Whom?” after an action verb.
Et in fact is "alpha and omega" of the signature of YHVH the covenant symbol of the Son of God (I
am the alpha and the Omega - the first and the last)
Et indicates that what follows needs wider explanation and is important. This is always connected
with Jesus.
Then in Gen. 1:27 So God created this particular man ( ‏(אֶת-הָאָדָם again in his [own] image, in the
image of God (‘elohim) created he him; male and female created he them. This is referring to the
creation of “this particular man” (or these particular men or types of people, prototypes)
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Gen 2:7 And the LORD GOD (YHVH ‘elohiym אxֱ‎הִים ‏(יְהוָה formed this particular man
of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man ‏(אֶת-הָאָדָם (
became a living soul.
This is referring to the forming of one particular type of man, i.e. those with the breath of life in them
or God’s spirit indwelling in them at birth. The fact that God made Adam from dust simply tells us
that Adam was made from the ground (adamah). The word dust is "'aphar", and means loose earth
or ground.
The definition of "‘elohim" is in itself is:
a) rulers, judges, b) divine ones, c) angels, d) gods; 2 a) god, goddesses, b) godlike one, c) works
or special possessions of god, d) the (true) god, e) god.
Implying many persons.
In 1:27, the ‘elohiym create this particular man (or these particular men or prototypes) in the image
of ‘elohiym. This particular man - a proto-type - unequivocally refers to a portion of creation as if to
suggest that there is or will be more to come, probably even made more better since each can
evolve within its species within its order and dimensions of existence
protos
1) first in time or place in any succession of things or persons
2) first in rank
a) influence, honor
b) chief
c) principal
3)first, at the first
anthropos
1) a human being, whether male or female
a) generically, to include all human individuals
b) to distinguish man from beings of a different order
1) of animals and plants
2) of from God and Christ
3) of the angels
c) with the added notion of weakness, by which man is led into a mistake or prompted to sin
d) with the adjunct notion of contempt or disdainful pity
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e) with reference to two fold nature of man, body and soul
f) with reference to the two fold nature of man, the corrupt and the truly Christian man, conformed to
the nature of God
g) with reference to sex, a male
2) indefinitely, someone, a man, one
3) in the plural, people
4) joined with other words, merchantman
Gen 1 Adam represents a host of people - Nations - the image of Elohim - many
The making of mankind and the creating of this particular man (or these particular men or
prototypes) are both done by the ‘elohiym and in the image of ‘elohiym. ALL of mankind resembles
the ‘elohiym because they are many. They included male and female.
"Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea,
and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that
moveth upon the earth. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created
him: male and female he created them."
Then follows the blessing accompanied by the command to increase and fill the earth, and finally
the vegetable kingdom is assigned to them for food. A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a
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society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild
animals), In the 1970s, Lewis Binford suggested that early humans were obtaining food via
scavenging, not hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in forests and woodlands,
which allowed them to collect seafood, eggs, nuts, and fruits besides scavenging. Rather than
killing large animals for meat, according to this view, they used carcasses of such animals that had
either been killed by predators or that had died of natural causes (Binford, Louis (1986). "Human
ancestors: Changing views of their behavior". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 3: 235–57.)
Have dominion over all creatures, subdue the earth
These were the first humanoids that roamed the earth.
Gen 2:1 tells us, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.”
The word “host” means a mass of persons and creatures.
Gen. 5:1-2
also repeats this creation:
GEN 2: AGRICULTURAL SETTLERS AND THE ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION
‘Elohiym ended their work and then rested on the 7th day. After the 7th day, we find that “The
Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”
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Knap of Howar farmstead on a site occupied from 3,700 BC to 2,800 BC
This was because the first humanoids were not farmers. YHVH of Elohim (not Elohim) then goes on
to "form" the second species of humans who were not to be hunters and gatherers and fishermen
but farmers with settled life. Gen 2: 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it.
A new civilization begins with this Adam. Man is not commissioned to dominate the whole earth
roaming all over the world, as in the first narrative, but is settle and to take care of the Garden of
Eden with permission to eat of its fruit, and the formation of woman as a help meet for man. Women
were more useful in the agricultural settlements than in the previous societies.
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Unlike the Gen 1 Adam, this particular Adam was created from the earth and in addition was given
the breath of life directly by giving YHVH's breath itself to give a special form of life. This Adam
was the pinnacle of creation with a new additional soul which no other creation previously had.
Thus this man was bound to the earth and he lived out of what he made to grow out of the earth.
Thus began a new civilization where cooperation with communities and eventually civilization
began to appear.
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I am aware that the white supremacists use this story to establish that this particular Adam was
white. (http://www.hope-of-israel.org/twocreationsaccts.html) But the argument cannot really
stand since:
Adam has the color of earth which is brown and never white.
What color was Adam?
(http://www.creationmoments.com/content/what-color-was-adam)
The true explanation began to be resolved in 1913 when it was shown that human beings carry two
genes for color and that each gene consists of "black" or "white" alleles. One allele was received
from the mother and the other from the father. The allele is part of the gene, and the gene is part of
the DNA – while the DNA resides in the nucleus of every cell in our body. Our skin color is caused
by the pigment melanin, and this is controlled by two pairs of genes that geneticists refer to using
the letter designations Aa and Bb, where the capital letter represents dominant genes and the small
letters represent recessive genes. A and B, being dominant, produce melanin in good quantity
while recessive a and b produce only a minor amount of melanin. Hence, our coloration depends
upon the number of black and white alleles we received from our parents. The color genes express
themselves in only one place – specialized skin cells called the melanocytes – that produce
granules of melanin that are delivered to neighboring cells.
Eve was made from Adam's rib and was thus a clone of Adam [Genesis 2:21-22]. They would
therefore have had identical genes for melanin production. If they were both AABB, they would
have been Negroid and produced children of only the darkest of Negroid coloration. If this were the
case, the world's population today would be entirely Negro. In fact, only about 10% of the world's
population is Negro, so we can be certain that our first parents were not of the AABB combination.
By the same argument, if Adam and Eve had both been aabb, all their children would have been
aabb meaning that all their descendants would be the lightest Caucasoid possible – there would be
no other colors. Clearly, this is not the case, so by a process of deduction we can conclude that
Adam and Eve were heterozygous, each having two dominant and two recessive genes, AaBb.
They would thus have been middle-brown in color and from them, in one generation, the various
shades of brown would have been produced.
These color differences were likely amplified following the business at the Tower of Babel [Genesis
11:1-9] when the human gene pool was divided. Loss of genetic information in an isolated
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population is well known and a problem to breeders of pure-bred dogs, horses and other animals. It
seems that one population group that migrated from the Tower of Babel suffered a greater loss of
the genetic information required to produce the melanin and became the Caucasians. The bottom
line is that Adam was not white or black but a good middle brown.
https://auticulture.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/what-we-know-dont-know-arent-supposed-to-ask-about-race/
Providing a final solution to the problem of the Tasmanian aborigines…
…all were reaching the conclusion that life in Tasmania would be much happier if there were no
Tasmanians. The Reverend Thomas Atkins, after a visit to Van Diemen’s Land in 1836,
conveniently rationalized the attitude in Christian terms. It was a universal law in the divine
government, he wrote, that when savage tribes came into collision with civilized races of men, the
savages disappeared. This was because they had not complied with the divine conditions for
survival- “For God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish
the earth and subdue it…”
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2013/01/tasmania-talking-about-the-word-extinct/
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C: MANKIND AND THE MAN
If we examine the two creations describing Adam we have in Genesis 1:
New International Version: Then God said, "Let us make mankind ( ‏(אָדָם in our image, in our
likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock
and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
In the Gen 1:27 and Gen 2:7 gives
Then in Gen. 1:27 So God created this particular man ( ‏(אֶת-הָאָדָם again in his [own] image, in the
image of God (‘elohim) created he him; male and female created he them.
This is referring to the creation of “this particular man” (or these particular men or types of people,
prototypes) They were given vegetables as food.
"Several million years ago, when a great many hominid species lived side-by-side, they mainly ate
plants. "There is no evidence they were systematically preying on large animals," (John Shea of
Stony Brook University in New York, US.)
‏(אֶת-הָאָדָם ( man formed this particular ‏(יְהוָה אxֱ‎הִים Gen 2:7 And the LORD GOD (YHVH ‘elohiym
of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.
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It was this Adam who was chased out when he failed to keep it free of satanic presence in it instead
connived with Satan.
This is referring to the forming of one particular type of man, i.e. one with the breath of life in him
and formed out of the dust of the earth by YHVH of Elohim unlike the first creation of many men and
women in the image of Elohim the God of many persons (or the family of God) Since this second
creation from the dust of the earth followed immediately after the first creation of many men and
women (who were in the image of God but not said to be made out of the dust) may indicate this is
another second creation and not one of the members from the first.
The second creation was another ha-Adam - a particular "the Adam" who is again connected
with et the sign of the covenant indicating God's choice and special item which needs expansion
and explanation. Here we have one person. He was created by YHVH of Elohim - the Son of God
- directly from the dust of the earth by forming and then directly breathing his spirit into it giving a
new type of man with divine soul and spirit.
Gen 3: 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground
from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he
placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
This verse seem to indicate that the earth from which Adam was molded was taken not from the
Garden of Eden but from outside of it which was the area where the rest of mankind of the first
creation lived their life.
The choice:
Either this is another special creation out of the earth (evolved as theistic evolution probably is
implied?)
Or one particular Adam was taken out of the already created mankind as special Priest to God
to take care of his sanctuary on earth - the Garden of Eden. When this second Adam
desecrated the Garden he was sent out from Eden to outer world from which he was taken.
Was the second Adam taken from the old hominids - a chosen one?
Or the new particular Adam was created as new single male person and placed in Eden.
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The first creation was a creation of host of humans in both male and female form. This was done by
Elohim - the plurality of God along with the host of his Sons and daughters. Evidently they will be
many in number all over the world.
The earlier mankind was distributed all over the earth in large numbers with the command to
subdue the earth and all creatures of the water, air and the earth. But this new Adam was created
and placed in the Garden of Eden which God planted to till and to keep. They evidently were two
distinct creations. We don’t know how much of a time lapsed between them.
Scripture seems to indicate that these new creation man, though identical in look and structure to
the older humankind were given a new dimension by the breath of God.
This is substantiated by the archaeological sciences
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/fossil
Thousands of fossils have been discovered in the past decades alone.
While people used to think that there was a single line of human species, with one evolving after
the other in an inevitable march towards modern humans, we now know this is not the case. Like
most other mammals, mankind were part of a large and diverse family tree. Fossil discoveries
show that the human kind family tree has many more branches and deeper roots than we knew
about even a couple of decades ago. In fact, the number of branches our evolutionary tree, and
also the length of time, has nearly doubled since the famed ‘Lucy’ fossil skeleton was discovered in
1974! As we have seen this is amply supported by the scripture using the word mankind and many
of them in the image of Elohim.
"Why did our close relatives—from Neanderthals to their recently discovered cousins, the
Denisovans, to the hobbit people of Indonesia—die out while we became a global success?" Yet
in spite of the great variety in earlier human species, we are the only one that remains of a diverse
family tree. That might seem to indicate something special about us."
(http://discovermagazine.com/2011/evolution/23-how-we-won-the-hominid-wars)
There were periods in the past when three or four early human species lived at the same time, even
in the same place. These humans certainly took over the earth and indeed subdued them as
hunter gatherers. For some unexplained reason all those humanoids died out. It was followed by
the new Adam Androgynous who were then separated as Adam and Eve so that they can
regenerate..
An estimation of the creation of the first Adam on the basis of the pure scientific time line given
below will be around 1.8 million years ago and "the Adam" who survived comes around 10,000
years. Of course this is based on several assumptions.
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In the scripture we are not against evolution. Evolution is clearly the law within its own kind. Only
when the kind changes, that is when additional dimensions and hence new type of soul and spirit
are needed, they are created by the direct intervention of the creator. Material dimensions
themselves are 11 according to modern physics. We may not be aware of others in the physical
realm leave alone the spiritual and divine realms.
While mankind was created and evolved in their own dimensions, the Adam was created with much
more dimensions. These are clearly demanded by the scripture.
Again while 'The Adam' species has been on earth only around 6000 years or so, humankind had
been on the earth long before that. The Bible does not tell the history of that period.
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http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/one-species-living-worldwide
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Results of scientific research on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
https://biblescienceguy.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/adams-prolific-princess/
https://www.icr.org/article/8017/
https://creation.com/a-shrinking-date-for-eve
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/humans.htm
"Results of scientific research on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) now support this Biblical truth that
there is a single mother of the human race now living. Inherited only from the mother, mtDNA is
found outside the cell nucleus in the mitochondria organelles, the power plants of cells.
Mitochondrial genes (mtDNA) and nuclear genes (DNA) are inherited differently. When a sperm
fertilizes an egg, the sperm nucleus and the egg nucleus both contribute genetic material (DNA)
equally to the nucleus of the zygote. But the zygote’s mitochondrial DNA comes from the egg,
because the sperm’s mitochondria are destroyed after entering the egg, leaving only the egg’s
mitochondria. Mitochondria are inherited solely through the mother, not the father.
All mtDNA today comes from a single female which scientists have nicknamed Eve. This does not
constitute proof of a single female ancestor, but only that no female lines now exist except Eve’s.
This is consistent with the Biblical record, and evolutionary theory does not predict it.
Today mitochondrial genes are very similar with little diversity. This means little time has elapsed
for mtDNA mutations to occur. This suggests that mitochondrial Eve lived not long ago; how long
ago is under dispute.
The mtDNA mutation rate is the rate at which copying mistakes occur. Estimating the mtDNA
mutation rate (using evolutionary assumptions), scientists once conjectured this ancestral Eve lived
200,000 years ago. Later studies showed much higher mutation rates (as much as 20-fold faster
than expected) with correspondingly younger ages for Eve.
Was there was a first woman (Eve) about 6,000 years ago? Some scientific research supports this
Biblical truth.
A review of the data in the prestigious journal Science said Eve would be only 6,000 years old
based on these re-calibrated mtDNA mutation rates:
“Evolutionists are most concerned about the effect of a faster mutation rate. For example,
researchers have calculated that “mitochondrial Eve”–the woman whose mtDNA was ancestral to
that in all living people–lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa. Using the new clock, she
would be a mere 6000 years old.”
(Gibbons, Ann. “Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock.” Science 279.5347, January 2, 1998. p
28–29.)"
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WAS THERE A FALL?
TWO ADAM THEORY AND SIN
Since we meet the creation of mankind Adam on the sixth day and then again the story continues
after the Sabbath with another creation of man Adam we invariably ask the question "Are they
two Adams?"
First Adam was created male and female in Day 6 of creation
Second Adam was created as Androgyen sometime later after the seventh day.
Correspondingly the context and nature of the creation is different.
Gen 1 started with a "bohu and tohu' chaos .The Septuagint renders it as ἀόρατος καὶ
ἀκατα-σκεύαστος, "shapeless and formless". "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness
was over the surface of the deep,"
In Gen 2 after the 7 th day rest when God woke up here is the situation:
"Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had
not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,"
Another desolation and consequent chaos?
Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the
earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be
inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Evidently then something happened and the earth became uninhabitable. This we know is
caused by some form of sin of the one who were entrusted with the creation. In the gap theory it
was first caused by the sin of the Lucifer Angel. Was the cause of destruction and start over
because of the sin of Governor Adam and his wide family or from someone in the heavenly realm
outside of earth? . But we don’t see Mr. & Mrs. Adam anywhere on the eighth day. What
happened to them that God has to start all over again with a new Adam.
This is the serial reading of history. Where did the First Adam (refering to the entire mankind) go?
There must be a story similar to the new Adam and Eve who were driven out of their earth domain
and were subjected to death. If so we are not told. If there was a fall and reconstruction that also
is not revealed to us.
The best I can think of is that they began to fight over their domains and totally desecrated the earth.
Tribal warfare are still the greatest enemy of people in every country. Evidently these two groups
one created by Elohim and one created by YHVH of Elohim certainly overlapped. This will allow for
the cain's fear of being killed by them and later Cain married wives and even built a city indicating a
large population of them existing at his time.
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MUSINGS OF JEWISH RABBIS ON ADAM
R. Johanan interprets as being an acrostic of (ashes), (blood), and (gall; see Soṭah, 5a).
Isidor of Seville ("De Natura Rerum," ix.) declare that Adam was made of blood (sanguis), gall
(cholē), black gall (melancholia), and phlegm: the four parts constituting the temperaments, which
correspond to the four elements of nature, as does the microcosm to the macrocosm (see Piper,
"Symbolik der Christlichen Kirche," 90, 469).
Both Aristophanes and the Midrash share the opinion that the human form is but a fragment of its
original self. Aristophanes explains that this fragmentation was due to the fact that the original
human’s strength presented a threat to the gods. How do the Rabbis explain why humanity was
shrunk down to current size Although Leviticus Rabbah offers no explanation for this, Yalkut
Shim’oni does clarify the reason for the fragmentation of the original human form.
At the time that the Holy One, Blessed be He created man, he created him as Androgynos, as it
says, “Male and Female [He created them.]” Rabbi Samuel b. Nahmani said, “Double-faced He
created them.”….Originally [Adam] was created reaching the heavens, but when the Angels of
Service saw him, they trembled and were frightened before him. What did they do They all went
before God [and requested that man be shortened.].
The Greek writers explained the shrinking of mankind’s size from giant to current size as being due
to the jealousy of the gods. However, unlike the Greeks, who were comfortable attributing human
qualities such as jealousy and lust to the gods, Midrash Yalkut Shim’oni transfers these qualities to
angels, thereby explaining the reason for God’s diminishing the human form without implying divine
imperfection. In this account, the Angels, divine beings subordinate to the Supreme God, were
threatened by man’s height and requested that he be shortened.
http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1173
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HAWAIAN MYTH OF CREATION OF ADAM
The most detailed account of the making of the first man is found in Hawaiian mythology:
"The head of the first kanaka (Hawaiian) was created from a whitish clay (pololo), which was
brought by Lono from the four ends of the world—from "Kai Koolau, Kai Kona, Kahiki-ku,
Kahiki-moe"—north, south, east, west. The clay from the north and east forming the right side, and
the clay from the south and west forming the left.... At the creation of man, Kane was the model
after which he was made; Ku was the workman who made him, and Lono assisted generally. When
the clay-image of Kane was made, they three breathed into its nose, and that breath was called "he
maule o Lono." The gods then called on him to rise and become a living being,... The image then
rose and knealt before the gods and they called his name Honua-ula (Red Earth)—his body was
made of red earth (lepo ula) and spittle (wai-nao), and his head was made of the clay (palalo)
brought from the four ends of the earth. Another name for him was Ke Lii-Ku-Honua. After creation
this man Honuaula, was given a place to live in, called in olden time Kalana i Hauola, in later times
it was called Pali-uli."
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CHAPTER FIVE
MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM
According to Genesis 1 creation Adam was created both male and female in the image of God.
First if man was created in the image of Elohim (Plural El) and Adam was both male and female, we
stop to ask, was God male and female? The first reaction of Jews and Christians is a total rejection
of any gender association with God.
Here is the evasive teaching.
Man and woman have been created in perfect equality, yet in their particular beings as male
and female.
Man and woman are created in the image of God. They were created together and for each
other.
God is neither male nor female - God is a pure Spirit.
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However there is a consistent effort to accept this statement at face value in plain text interpretation.
Here is a typical answer to the question. The conclusion:
The absurdity if clear.
God the Father is obviously Male.
God the father is always represented as an old man with beard.
God the Spirit - referred in Hebrew feminine gender Ruach is feminine because by definition,
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. Again in the context of Genesis creation we
see the spirit of God hovering over the waters providing the creation of life. The same picture is
seen in proverbs where we meet Wisdom which is again clearly defined as female.
Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
It is God’s motherly love conveying the promise of life, order, and beauty to what was of itself a
mess.
Does it sound like:
In Proverbs 8:22-31, a figure known as "Woman Wisdom" is described as being present when God
was creating the world.
Proverbs 8:22-31): 22 The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of
long ago. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24 When there
were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before
the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth— 26 when he had not yet
made earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil. 27 When he established the heavens, I was
there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28 when he made firm the skies above, when
he established the fountains of the deep, 29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the
waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30
then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Obviously, " During Hellenistic times, there was a Jewish-Christian concept of "Sophia" (Greek for
Wisdom) being God's wife.
Pushing in this as an affirmation of the Document hypothesis Mark S. Smith says in The Early
History of God, page 133, that scholars such as G. Bostrom, H . Ringgren, W. F. Albright and
others have compared the figure of Wisdom to the Canaanite goddess Asherah. On page 201,
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Smith says that Wisdom perhaps included some features of Asherah, and that she is a dramatic
example of an originally polytheistic motif that changed into a form deemed compatible with
monotheistic Yahwism. He points out that Ecclesiasticus continues and amplifies the female
personification of Wisdom.
If Wisdom was not the post-Exilic understanding of Asherah, she was certainly a female spirit or
goddess who was revered in Judaism, and apparently in early Christianity, up until the end of the
first century CE. Judith M. Hadley ('Wisdom and the goddess' page 236, published in Wisdom in
Ancient Israel, edited by Day, Gordon and Williamson) says in her view, the apparent apotheosis of
Lady Wisdom in the biblical literature is a literary compensation for the eradication of Israel's former
goddesses. Hadley concludes (page 242) that in several places in Israelite wisdom literature, Lady
Wisdom is described as a person and even seems to have divine attributes, although scholars have
been reluctant to give her full divinity.
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(http://www.ministrysamples.org/excerpts/…)
THE-SPIRIT-OF-GOD-BROODING-OVER-THE-DEEP-TO-PRODUCE-LIFE.
"In Genesis 1:2 we read about the Spirit. What is the significance of the Spirit here? In the Bible the
Spirit always signifies life. What is the significance of the waste, void, darkness, and deep water?
All these signify a disaster, and even death. These are all negative things. Then all of a sudden
something good came, that is, the Spirit. The Spirit came not to rebuke, not to condemn, but to
brood, as a mother bird broods over the eggs. The "eggs" are just the waste, void, darkness, and
deep water. These are all terrible things, yet these terrible things came under the brooding of the
"mother hen"; hence, they all became "eggs."
We also were under this brooding. We are out of Adam, and Adam was out of the dust, which was
there under the brooding. The dust, which is the earth, was the first thing that came out of the
brooding of the Spirit. First, there was the Spirit; then, after the Spirit there was light (vv. 3-5); and
after the light the firmament was made (vv. 6-8), which is the air. Then the resurrection of the buried
earth came up on the third day, the day of resurrection (vv. 9-10). Hence, the first thing that came
up because of the Spirit’s brooding is the resurrected earth. Adam was made out of this earth, and
we are a part of Adam. Hence, we came out of the brooding of the Spirit. Our existence came out of
the Spirit’s brooding in God’s history. God firstly came out of eternity and entered into time by
creating the heavens and the earth. Then God’s creature rebelled, and God judged him. This
rebellious one became God’s enemy, and the entire universe became waste, void, and darkness.
Then God moved. He moved by the brooding of His Spirit, and we are included there under that
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The brooding brought forth the earth. But for the earth to produce life, there is the need of light and
air. Therefore, on the first day the light was recovered, and on the second day the air, the firmament,
was created. Then on the third day, the day of resurrection, the buried earth came up (typifying the
buried Christ resurrected), ready to produce life. The producing of life started from the lowest life.
There is a sequence of life in Genesis, beginning with the lowest life, the life without any
consciousness. First, we find the grasses, the herbs, and the trees (vv. 11-13). These are living
things, but their life is very low and without any consciousness. These were created on the third day,
immediately after the earth resurrected from the death water.
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Spirit)" We baptise to show this relationship. But apparently no body seems to explain this.
The only explanation is given to baptism is that of burial and resurrection.
The Son is the word
Those who are familiar with Nicene Creed (which seems to be left behind) says: "I believe in the
Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life which procedes from the Father….." where it is implied that the
Father and the Ruah are one person which separates out for creation of new life as necessary.
This is the process that is represented in the creation of Adam. Eve was in Adam and was later
seperated out and given a new body or form.
I was surprised when one of our bishop said that God is a family. He had it right.
anyone else explain it.
But never heard
When Paul says that "There is neither male or female is Christ" he was simply referring to the fact
that both male and female should be born again and is a statement of Adam getting back into his
original creation form with both male and female in oneness of body and mind. This again is the
picture of marriage as presented in the scripture. The whole creation is one body - the body of
God, within which is male and female united together to form one unity.
Yet consistently the creation story says: " In the image of God created he them; male and female
created he them"
Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them
Genesis 5:1-2 1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He
made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female,
There is really an evasion of the question and total negation of the above two verses which is
consistently asserted through the Bible.
However they would not mind saying that God is both male and female.
in action in the first creation story by induction.
In fact we see the trinity
Father God who is the brain behind - the law of the creation - the law giver.
The Spirit of God Ruach hovered over the waters. Ruach is female gender. "It is the Spirit that
gives life" It is from these waters that life emerge. Flesh is of no avail, it gives only shape or form.
Life can exist in a world of mercy where choices are there. They are the result of the uncertainity
principle and virtual particles.
The spoken word is later associated with the Logos, the Word, the Son.
This is coding.
The similarity may not be physical. Is it spiritual? Is man a Spirit like father God? Certainly God
is both male and female in the dimension of their existence. Where does the male and female
God come in otherwise?
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The only clear direct teaching of God as a family as in the clear statement of Trinity family is found
in Kaballah. When the unknowable god enters into the existence and knowable dimension it gives
the first triad as follows
The fear:
(https://www.therefinersfire.org/ruach_hakodesh.htm)
"The thing is, if you look back in history there were cult followings of a She component of YHWH
that was joined with Asherah and so I think this is a slippery slope to start calling the Ruach
haKodesh "She" because it divides YHWH into He and She elements and I believe this is a step
right into paganism." If the Trinity does not violate monotheism, I don’t see how feminine form of
one of the Trinity will change anything except add additional healthy interpretation. Whole universe
in a composite of both male and female and form one universe within God.
The fact remains that:
"In Hebrew the word for Spirit רוה)‏ ) (ruach) is feminine, which is used in the Hebrew Bible as is
the feminine word "shekhinah" used in rabbinical writings, to indicate the presence of God, In the
Syriac language too, the grammatically feminine word rucha means "spirit",,
Writers in those language , both orthodox and Gnostic, used maternal images when speaking of
the Holy Spirit. This imagery is found in the fourth-century theologians Aphrahat and Ephraim. It is
found in earlier writings of Syriac Christianity such as the Odes of Solomon and in the
early-third-century Gnostic Acts of Thomas.
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The Holy Spirit was depicted as a woman 900
years ago on a chapel ceiling in Bavaria,
Germany. And we know the Holy Spirit in
Hebrew is feminine. But when the Bible got
translated into Greek, the word for holy spirit
became pneuma, a neuter word. Pneuma means spirit, and breath Ruach also means spirit and
breath. (http://northernway.org/presentations/godwife/47.html)
Mother Heart Conference 2013. With Baxter Kruger, Paul Young, Deidre Havrelock, Jack Levison,
and Priscilla Pope-Levison. This ground-breaking conference was held in May of 2013. God is
Family ... the book of Genesis tells us that both men and women are made in the image and
likeness of God. Just think about it...Man + Woman = the image of God. Because of this, our
families become beautiful representations of God with father, mother and child working together in
the bond of love and unity. But if God is the first family, in whose image we have been created,
have you ever wondered...Where is the feminine aspect of God within the trinity?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqvyjtBAGos)
Here are some explanation of Adam as both male and female.
’You have formed me before and behind’ (Psalms 139:5)…
R. Jeremiah b. Leazar said:
"When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the first ‘adam, He created it with both male and
female sexual organs, as it is written, ‘Male and female He created them, and He called their name
‘adam,’ (Genesis 5:2).
R. Samuel b. Nahmani said,
“When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the first ‘adam, He created him with two faces, then
split him and made him two backs – a back for each side.” (Genesis Rabbah 8:1)
Some rabbis objected to this interpretation, noting that Genesis 2 says God took one of the man’s
ribs to create the woman. To this, the following explanation is given:
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“’He took one of his ribs (mi-tzalotav)’… [‘One of his ribs’ means] one of his sides, as you read [in
an analogy from the similar use of the same word elsewhere], ‘And for the other side wall (tzel’a) of
the Tabernacle’ (Exodus 26:20).”
Conjoined Twins
Pin and Pan from Thailand (female and male) and Abby and Brittany Hensel from America
and
Adam and Eve
God said: "Let US make man [or "Adam,"--it is the same word] in our likeness" and the story
proceeds "In the image of God made HE HIM, male and female made HE THEM." Note that in the
second clause, man is spoken of as both singular and plural. Adam was of both sexes- a
hermaphrodite
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What the rabbis mean here is that the phrase used to describe woman's creation from man's rib –
mi-tzalotav – actually means an entire side of his body because the word “tzel’a” is used in the book
of Exodus to refer to one side of the holy Tabernacle.
A similar discussion can be found in Leviticus Rabbah 14:1 (Composed in Talmudic Israel/Babylon
(500 CE). Vayikrah Rabbah (The Great Leviticus) is a homiletic midrash to Leviticus.) where R. Levi
states:
“When man was created, he was created with two body-fronts, and He [God] sawed him in two, so
that two backs resulted, one back for the male and another for the female.”
Primeval man was held by the Babylonians to have been androgynous. Thus the Gilgamesh Epic
gives Enkidu androgynous features: `the hair of his head like a woman's, with locks that sprout like
those of Nisaba, the Grain-goddess.'
The Hebrew tradition evidently derived from Greek sources, because both terms used in a
Tannaitic midrash to describe the bisexual Adam are Greek: androgynos, 'man-woman', and
diprosopon, 'twofaced'.
Philo of Alexandria, the Hellenistic philosopher and commentator on the Bible, contemporary with
Jesus, held that man was at first bisexual; so did the Gnostics.
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Since the word adam is not used previously in the Bible, there is no evidence that this word must
denote a male. Indeed, the explanatory phrase, “male and female He created them,” could be read
as clarifying what the nature of this adam actually was.
To this end, a number of rabbinic passages preserve what may have been a popular interpretation
of this passage, which indicates that the first human actually comprised of both genders. Leviticus
Rabbah to Leviticus 12:2, for instance, we read the following
Rabbi Samuel b. Nahman said: "At the time that the Holy One, Blessed Be He created Man, He
created him as an Androgynos."
Resh Lakish said that "at the time that [Adam] was created, he was made with two faces, and [God]
sliced him and gave him two backs, a female one and a male one, as it says And He took from his
sides,[2] as it says, And to the side of the Tabernacle."
R. Berachya and R. Chalbo and R. Samuel b. Nahman said: At the time that the Holy One, Blessed
be He created man, He created him from one end of the earth until the other, filling the whole world.
He created [Man] from the east to the west. From where do we learn [that man was created from
the east to the west] As it says, You have fashioned me behind and of the earth to the other] As it
says And from one edge of the heavens until the other edge of the heavens.[4] And from where do
we learn that before.[5] And from where [do we learn that man was created from one end Adam
filled the space of the whole earth As it says, And lay your hand upon me.[6]
R. Samuel b. Nahman’s suggestion has an exegetical basis: The passage in Genesis begins by
referring to adam in the singular, but then says that God created “them” male and female. Was it
one being or two? R. Samuel answers by saying that it was one being that had both genders.
Resh Lakish’s suggestion also has exegetical basis. If Genesis 1 records the creation of males and
females, how is it that Adam in Genesis 2, which immediately follows, has no partner Resh Lakish
answers that Adam did have a partner on his back, but that this was not the ideal way of creating a
male-female couple, and so God divided them into two people.
In this way the concept of the androgyne allowed the rabbis to reconcile the two accounts of
Creation.
Another way of reconciliation is that when God created Adam, there indeed was a male and female
Adam. The original Adam of Gen. 1 had a wife.
Her name came to be associated with one Lilith. Somehow something happened that Adam was
found alone as we come to the second phase of creation.
What happened is explained off in terms of a divorce.
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CHAPTER SIX
LILITH: ADAM’S FIRST WIFE
Scholars are not certain where the character of Lilith comes from, though many believe she was
inspired by Sumerian myths about female vampires called “Lillu” or Mesopotamian myths about
succubae (female night demons) called “lilin.” Lilith is mentioned four times in the Babylonian
Talmud, but it is not until the Alphabet of Ben Sira (c. 800s to 900s) that the character of Lilith is
associated with the first version of Creation. In this medieval text, Ben Sira names Lilith as Adam’s
first wife and presents a full account of her story.
"When God created the first man Adam alone, God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” [So]
God created a woman for him, from the earth like him, and called her Lilith. They [Adam and Lilith]
promptly began to argue with each other: She said, “I will not lie below,” and he said, “I will not lie
below, but above, since you are fit for being below and I for being above.” She said to him, “The two
of us are equal, since we are both from the earth.” And they would not listen to each other. Since
Lilith saw [how it was], she uttered God's ineffable name and flew away into the air. Adam stood in
prayer before his Maker and said, “Master of the Universe, the woman you gave me fled from me!”
"The Holy Blessed one immediately dispatched the three angels Sanoy, Sansenoy, and
Samangelof after her, to bring her back. God said, “If she wants to return, well and good. And if not,
she must accept that a hundred of her children will die every day.” The angels pursued her and
overtook her in the sea, in raging waters, (the same waters in which the Egyptians would one day
drown), and told her God's orders. And yet she did not want to return. They told her they would
drown her in the sea, and she replied. “Leave me alone! I was only created in order to sicken
babies: if they are boys, from birth to day eight I will have power over them; if they are girls, from
birth to day twenty.” When they heard her reply, they pleaded with her to come back. She swore to
them in the name of the living God that whenever she would see them or their names or their
images on an amulet, she would not overpower that baby, and she accepted that a hundred of her
children would die every day. Therefore, a hundred of the demons die every day, and therefore, we
write the names [of the three angels] on amulets of young children. When Lilith sees them, she
remembers her oath and the child is [protected and] healed." Toldot Ben Sira," Nusach 2
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The evil Lilith is depicted on this ceramic bowl from Mesopotamia. The Aramaic incantation
inscribed on the bowl was intended to protect a man named Quqai and his family from assorted
demons. The spell begins: “Removed and chased are the curses and incantations from Quqai son
of Gushnai, and Abi daughter of Nanai and from their children.
“Bind Lilith in chains!” reads a warning in Hebrew on this 18th- or 19th-century C.E. amulet from the
Israel Museum intended to protect an infant from the demoness. The image of Lilith appears at
center. The small circles that outline her body represent a chain. The divine name is written in code
(called atbash) down her chest. (The letters yhwh appear instead as mzpz.) Beneath this is a
prayer: “Protect this boy who is a newborn from all harm and evil. Amen.” Surrounding the central
image are abbreviated quotations from Numbers 6:22–27 (“The Lord bless you and keep you. . .”)
and Psalm 121 (“I lift up my eyes to the hills. . .”). According to the apocryphal Alphabet of Ben Sira,
Lilith herself promised she would harm no child who wore an amulet bearing her name. Image:
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Adam clutches a child in the presence of the child-snatcher Lilith
Later legends also characterize her as a beautiful woman who seduces men or copulates with them
in their sleep (a succubus), then spawns demon children. According to some accounts, Lilith is the
Queen of Demons. (References: Kvam, Krisen E. etal. "Eve & Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
Readings on Genesis and Gender." Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1999.)
For 4,000 years Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic imaginations of writers, artists
and poets. Her dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were
used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants.
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Lilith next migrated to the world of the ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites and Greeks. She makes
a solitary appearance in the Bible, as a wilderness demon shunned by the prophet Isaiah. In the
Middle Ages she reappears in Jewish sources as the dreadful first wife of Adam.
After leaving Adam her new mate was the archangel Samael
(angel of death and seventh heaven) who is sometimes
described as good and as evil and is very often connected to
Satan and the snake.Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar
to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one,
reflecting what is above. This is the account of Lilith which was
received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces.
The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Both of them were born
at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in
each other. Evil Samael and wicked Lilith are like a sexual pair
who, by means of an intermediary, receive an evil and wicked
emanation from one and emanate to the other …
Adam, Lilith, and Eve, c. 1210 C.E., Base oftrumeau, left portal, West Façade,
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Lilith is sometimes also said to be the snake that convinced Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil.
In the Renaissance, Michelangelo portrayed Lilith as a half-woman, half-serpent, coiled around the
Tree of Knowledge. Later, her beauty would captivate the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. “Her
enchanted hair,” he wrote, “was the first gold.” Irish novelist
James Joyce cast her as the “patron of abortions.” Modern
feminists celebrate her bold struggle for independence from Adam.
Her name appears as the title of a Jewish women’s magazine and
a national literacy program. An annual music festival that donates
its profits to battered women’s shelters and breast cancer
research institutes is called the Lilith Fair.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism:
http://www.bitterwaters.com/
"The Case for Lilith: 23 Biblical Evidences Identifying the Serpent
as Adam’s First Failed Wife in Genesis" Mark Wayne Biggs
presents a detailed analysis of the issue from which Rabbinical
tradition base their conclusions on the first wife of Adam.
A Summary of Evidences in the Bible that Support the Existence of Lilith of a woman created before
Eve whom was in rivalry with Adam.
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There are creation accounts of two women in Genesis.
The first woman is made at the same time as Adam.
The second is created later from Adam’s side.
The creation account of the second woman, Eve, comes in Ge 2:21-25.
Those passages clearly indicate Eve was created from Adam’s side.
The first woman’s creation is told three times, once in Ge 1:26-29, again in Ge 2:4-8, and briefly
recapped in Ge 5:1-2.
Ge 1:26-29 (First telling of Adam’s and Lilith’s creation)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat
Ge 2:4-8 (Second re-telling of Adam’s and Lilith’s creation)
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed
Genesis 5:1-2(A third recap of Adam’s and Lilith’s creation)
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were
created.
The fourth and final creation account comes in Ge 2:16-24. It clearly speaks of Eve’s creation from Adam’s rib some
time after God’s warning to Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge.
All three accounts imply both Adam and this woman were created at the same time using dust
from the ground.
But in the second account we see Adam alone making it clear that the female counterpart is
missing. The tradition confirms that a woman named Adamah (the female form of Adam) was
created along with Adam and that her body was watered by a mist.
The passage start with “the generations of the heavens and of the earth” indicating that they
are from different dimensions "heaven" and "earth". Adam was made from of the earth, in the
likeness of God and was given life by the breath of God. Lilith’s generations would be that of
the heavens, taking after the likeness of the fallen Watchers and Lucifer’s animating waters.
After leaving Adam she is said to have joined with Lucifer.
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In the first and third creation accounts of a man and woman in Ge 1:26-29 and Ge 5:1-2, the
passages clearly states that when the male and female were created, apparently only the male
was created in God’s image. Lilith was created by God, but not in His image, for a demonic
mist arouse from the ground and animated her in it’s image instead (Ge 2:6). But Eve bear
God’s image, for she was taken out of Adam’s side.
Conflicting commands of God to the two women of the creation accounts above further indicate
they must be different individuals.
Gen 1:26-29 God gave freedom to them to eat the fruit of every tree."I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
They will be yours for food." Eden was a walled garden guarded by angels.
Gen 2:15-17 speaks in the aftermath of Lilith leaving Adam. Adam was now moved to the
Garden of Eden and was given the advise never to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil. Eve was taken out of Adam after this. As such Eve was also bound by this
rule.
In Ge 5:2 God gave a single name “Adam” to denote both the female and male. This single
name supports a dual simultaneous creation from dust for Adam and his first mate. It also
implies that the name of Adam’s first female would be Adamah, as the feminine form of Adam
which means “from the soil”. This supports the word-play in Ge 2:6 which states that the face of
the Adamah (i.e. Lilith) was watered by the mist. This is consistent with the legend of Lilith’s
creation from muck and mud.
Lilith explains why God rescinded permission to eat of every tree; why the tree of knowledge
came to exist; and why Adam had to guard the garden.
Lilith explains Adam’s lonely state in Ge 2:18. Adam “became alone” . Lilith explains how
Adam became alone. She also explains the timing of Eve’s creation after Adam’s
unsuccessful search among the beasts of the field (which includes Lilith) for a mate.
Ge 2:16-24 (Telling of Eve’s creation as a replacement)
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name
thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was
not found an help meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh
In Ge 2:18 the literal Hebrew states that Eve was made as a helpmate for Adam “like one
shown before him”. This odd phraseology implies a woman companion was physically shown
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to Adam before Eve existed. It even implies that Eve was made as a replacement for this first
woman. This is all consistent with Lilith.
After Eve’s creation in Ge 2:23, Adam awakes and exclaims upon seeing her, "hapa’am" the
Hebrew term for “this time”,, The point of his comparison is that “this time” the result was
“bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh”, as opposed to Lilith’s creation separate from his
body.
The Serpent was not a snake, but rather the most cunning mammal. This is consistent with
the serpent being Lilith.
Lilith best explains Leviathan, which is the most famous nachash Serpent of the Bible.
Leviathan is commonly recognized as Lucifer in the form of the Serpent of the garden.
Leviathan is described In Job 26:13 and Isa 27:1 as a winged Serpent fleeing from before God
and dwelling in the seas. This matches Lilith’s legend of fleeing on wing from the garden and
her subsequent oceanic abode. 1 Enoch confirms that Leviathan dwells in the seas, and adds
that Leviathan is female. This again matches Lilith. Psalm 74:14 speaks of God crushing the
heads of Leviathan. This matches God’s curse on the Serpent in Genesis that Eve’s seed in
the form of Messiah would crush the head of the Serpent.
Job 26:13 implies the Serpent Leviathan’s creation was analogous to that of Adam – that it was
fashioned by God through twisting and manipulating of earth into a golem. This similar
creation supports the notion that the Serpent was created at the same time as Adam and in a
similar fashion. This is consistent with the Serpent being the first woman, Lilith, created from
dust of the earth.
The curses handed out to the Serpent and to Eve in Ge 3:14-16 are the same as those of the
bitter water trial for the wayward adulterous wife in Nu 5:10-31. The Serpent’s curses match
those of the adulterous wife, and Eve’s curse in childbirth matches that experienced by the
innocent woman of the trial. The Serpent, in the role of the defiled Sotah, eats dust and is
cursed in her belly, and she shall be slain by the promised seed of the innocent woman. Eve,
as the innocent woman in the trial, shall temporarily endure the curse of pain in childbirth, but
she shall be saved by her seed. This strong parallelism further solidifies the identification of
the Serpent as an adulterous female whom has gone astray from under her husband, Adam.
Isa 34 describes a demon named “Lilith” as a deadly birdlike creature with wings and as the
slayer of stray younglings. A snake makes a nest with Lilith and is innately fused with her,
such that the two are considered one being. She dwells in the midst of the sea and shares her
abode with certain angels cast out of heaven. In a day of cursing and judgment, the waters of
her abode whither such that streams of water become molten tar, and the dust of the earth
becomes burning brimstone. Isaiah’s entire description of Lilith matches her legend. The
withering waters and fiery curses mirror a bitter water curse, with which the spirit of Lilith is
associated.
Lilith in the Zohar
Outside of the Bible, the most important source of information on Lilith is found the Zohar. The
Zohar is essentially a Kabalistic Midrash (collection of Kabalistic commentaries) on the Torah. As
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such, the Zohar is the most important work of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), largely defining
Kabalistic beliefs. The Zohar consists of twenty-two volumes penned around 1200 CE in Spain by
rabbi Moses de Leon. However, long before he codified the Zohar on that date, many of its
Midrashes doubtlessly had a long oral tradition. It has been surmised that the roots of its oral
tradition may expend all the way back to rabbi Simeon bar Yohai in the early Talmudic period (70
CE).
Lilith plays a surprisingly large role in the Zohar, and thus in Kabbalah. The Zohar mentions her
by name in 27 separate passages and by direct reference in a further 29, for a total of 56 direct
references. She is referenced indirectly several times more. The Zohar supports all the
fundamental elements of Lilith’s legend.
It holds she was created at the same time as Adam from the dust of the earth.
She was animated by spirits that rose up out of the ground.
She was an unsuitable helpmeet for Adam and fled from him.
She was the serpent who tempted Eve.
The Zohar holds that Lilith and Samael ( i.e. Satan) were one being much the same how Adam
and Eve were one being.
The Zohar even elevates Lilith as a counterpart to the mystical Matronit, or the female aspect of
Jehovah’s Shekhina (i.e. Holy Spirit). In this respect, Lilith is the ultimate demon or
manifestation of Satan.
Lilith’s Origins According to the Zohar
Perhaps the most important passage on Lilith’s origins in the Zohar comes in Zohar 1:19b (Bereshit:
Passages 98-102). The passages explain that Lilith’s body was created just like Adam’s from the
dust of earth. However, her body came to host the defective animating spark of life that was of
Samael, whereas Adam’s body came to host the animating spark of Jehovah’s perfect light.
In this image, the human being exists in this world with an inner part and an outer kilpah, which
corresponds to a spirit and a body.
The closing passage of Zohar 1:19b also established this link between Lilith and the defective light.
It states her power to slay children increases when the moon’s light wanes and is defective.
Lilith’s separating shell hosting the defective light of Samael is in apparent reference to the Genesis
event where the mist broke through the ground and watered the face of Adamah.
Zohar 1:19b notes that when the defective light entered creation, the curse of diphtheria for children
was created. The Zohar closely links diphtheria to Lilith. Zohar 2:264b states the Lilith strikes
children with this disease, and Zohar 2:267b relate that Lilith and Diphtheria are two distinct but
kindred spirits. The Zohar may have selected the disease of Diphtheria as emblematic of Lilith
because of its unusual traits. Diphtheria is an upper respiratory illness caused by a bacteria. It
symptoms include a swollen throat and “bull neck”, and an adherent membrane that grows on the
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tonsils, pharynx, and/or nasal cavity. This membrane is a leathery, sheath-like skin. Victims died
of suffocation when the leathery membrane growths closed their air passages.
317. At that time, a cloud descended and pushed aside all the spirits (which surrounded
Adam). … We learn of Lilith’s intrinsically fused nature with Samael in Zohar 1:148a-148b
(Vayetze: Passage 23). There she is called the “female of Samael,” whom is Lucifer. She and
Samael, female and male are one, just like Adam and Eve were one before she was taken from him.
A footnote to the passages further explains, “Samael is like the soul and Lilith like the body.
Lilith in the Talmud
There are five painfully brief references to Lilith in the Talmud (Circa 400 CE). All are incidental
references that pop up during the discussion of other topics. This imply that she was a well known
figure that needed no explanation. The original Talmudic passages describe Lilith as existing at
the time of Adam’s fall; as siring demon seed from Adam by stealing his semen at night while he
slept; as having long hair; as having wings, and as bringing defilement upon women in childbirth.
Later rabbis added explanatory footnotes to the original passages. Apparently, with the loss of the
Temple and the scattering of the Jews, knowledge of Lilith decreased over time. Ironically, it was
the purpose of the Talmud to preserve ancient knowledge, yet some of the Talmud’s presumed
knowledge on Lilith was apparently also being lost. Later rabbis added footnotes that identified
Lilith as a female night demon “reputed” to have wings and a human face. It is clear from the
footnotes that the later rabbis did not know precisely who Lilith was.
Lilith in The Testament of Solomon (Circa 200-600 CE)
There is an interesting reference to Lilith in The Testament of Solomon. This book is doubtlessly
apocryphal, and it’s the estimates for its date of writing varies anywhere between 200 to 600 CE.
However, it serves to illustrate the common Lilith legends of the time. In the book Lilith (who goes
by the alias Obizuth) is portrayed as a demon who strangles unprotected children in childbirth.
More importantly, Solomon strips away her power, at least in part, by forcibly binding her hair.
She was then hung in front of the Temple for all to see and to be an abject lesson to the children of
Israel. This tale shares interesting facets with the Sotah trial. It seems apparent that the writer of
the Testament was using elements of the bitter water trial for his story. In the Sotah trial the hair of
the woman was unloosed, the writer of Testament apparently saw this as unloosing of the
adulterous spirit within her, so that if she were guilty the demonic Lilith spirit might take hold and
work its curses. In Solomon, Lilith was made a spectacle at the Temple in plain view of all the
public, much like the defiled Sotah was made a spectacle at the Temple in view of all.
Lilith in The Alphabet of Ben Sira
Unfortunately, a discussion on Lilith is not complete with addressing the Alphabet of Ben Sira.
This farcical book has done much to corrupt the modern understanding of the ancient Lilith myth.
The problem apparently began when modern readers began to consider the irreverent Alphabet as
a serious work. The Alphabet is an irreverent book, anonymously written sometime around the
ninth century CE.
Timeline of Events in the Garden According to Biblical Evidences
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When Adam was created as a golem from dust, both a male and female were created at that time
(Ge 1:27, 2:6-7, 5:2, Job 26:13). This female (whom is Lilith) was nominally named Adamah at
her creation (Ge 5:2).
Adamah was created from the soil at the same time as Adam, but whereas Adam was created from
dry dust and animated by the breath of Jehovah, Adamah was created from wet soil and animated
by a Satanic mist that broke through the ground and watered Adamah’s prepared body. This
preemptive mist animated her in the image of Lucifer’s spirit instead of God’s (Ge 2:6). This
ruined Adamah for God’s purpose of having her be a suitable helpmeet for Adam, being created
from undefiled dust and the breath of God.
Adamah was not fully human, but was rather considered the supreme beast of the field, that is an
animal (Ge 3:1). This was because she was not created in the image of God like Adam (Ge 1:27).
Rather, she was animated of Lucifer and bore his image. The Genesis text insinuates that the
female Adamah had come to curse the earth, whereas the male Adam had come to bring
remembrance of Jehovah’s inheritance to the earth (Ge 1:27).
It flatly states that with the creation of this male and female two rival generations were being
established – one the generations of the heavens and the other the generations of the earth (Ge
2:4-7). The generations of the heavens would be those of Adam (and Eve) animated by the
breath of Jehovah and imbued with his image. The generations of the earth would be those of
Adamah and the Satanic spirits of the mist which animated her. These spirits of the mist, the
source of complaining voices of the field, came to exist in the earth after God’s initial creation of
Earth, but before Adam’s creation. They came to exist after God rained these spirits down upon
the earth as a curse. This refers to God’s casting down of Lucifer and his host to the earth after
Lucifer’s failed rebellion.
Despite Adamah’s flawed creation, God blessed both her and Adam and commanded them to fill
the earth (Ge 1:28).* God also granted them permission at this time to eat of every tree (Ge
1:29).
God then planted the garden of Eden and placed Adam there (Ge 2:8).
After Adam was placed in the garden, the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life
came to exist (Ge 2:9).
Also a river of water began to flow from Eden to water the garden (Ge 2:10-14).
At this point, if not already before, something must have happened. God then caused Adam to
rest (to be free of troubles) in the garden and commanded him to tend it and “guard” it (Ge 2: 15).
God also warned Adam that he may no longer eat of every tree. Upon pain of death he was
forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge (Ge 2:16-17). It is apparent that something had
transpired to cause this new command. Also, the command to guard the garden implied there
was a threat against it. These new commands may reflect new circumstances following Adamah’s
rebellion. This notion is supported in the very next verse which relates that at some point Adamah
had separated from Adam, for Adam “had become alone”
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At this point God declared that was not good that Adam had become alone, and that he would
create another helpmeet for Adam like one previously shown unto him (Ge 2:18). This previous
one refers to Adamah.
However, Adam may not have entirely given up on Adamah yet, because God then brought to
Adam all the beasts of the field, including Adamah, so that Adam might name them, thereby
providing his judgement of their character (their names reflected their characteristics and traits) and
demonstrating his authority over them. Adamah came and was judged and named by Adam.
This is known because all the beasts of field did thusly (Ge 2:19-20), and Adamah is deemed a
beast of the field (Ge 3:1). Adam may have given Adamah the name
No suitable mate was found for him (Ge 2:20).
Adam.
Thus Adamah was judged and found unsuitable for
After Eve’s creation Adamah re- emerges in the story under the title of the Serpent (Ge 3:1). At
some point she must have sprouted wings and transformed into the Serpent fleeing before God.
This again confirms another aspect of the Lilith legend – that she sprouted wings and fled from
before God and Adam.
The Serpent deceived Eve into sinning by eating of the forbidden tree (Ge 3:1-6).
When Adam saw the fallen state of Eve, he was not deceived (1 Timothy 2:14), but rather
voluntarily joined her, apparently out of love, lest he be alone again. Adam himself prophesized
this in Ge 2:24 when he stated that he would forsake God his father in order to cling unto Eve. By
eating of the tree Adam forsake God and joined Eve, fulfilling the prophesy. Also, some Sages
have noted that when Adam explains to Jehovah that Eve gave him of the fruit and v’akal (I ate –
lka:w), the verb is in the present future tense. It was as if Adam was saying, “I have eaten and will
eat again”, given the same circumstances. Another interesting line of thought is that Adam had
little choice in joining Eve. He had made a vow in Ge 2:24 that their flesh was one. Thus, when
Eve ate and suffered the curse of the fruit, it was almost as if Adam ate and suffered the curse in
the same instant. They were one flesh.
Eve and the Serpent were judged and cursed according to the bitter water rituals of the Sotah trial
laid out in Nu 5:10-31. Like the defiled adulteress, the Serpent is forced to eat dust, is cursed in
her belly, and is told that her seed shall wound the innocent woman’s promised seed, but that the
revived promised seed shall slay the Serpent’s seed and the Serpent herself. Likewise, Eve is
cursed according to the innocent woman of the trial. She shall bear seed in sorrow and pain, but
shall be saved in her child bearing (1 Timothy 2:15), just as the innocent woman of the trial initially
suffered the curses before having them removed by her promised seed.
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were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as a
guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the
fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was
found in you.
What happened to this Adam who was create by God on the sixth day?
A SECOND ADAM?
This statement seems to indicate that the one who was in Eden the garden of God was became
wicked and was turned out. The possibility that the first Adam joined his wife Lilith and produced
countless demons seems to indicate that God decided to create the specific second Adam
(ha-Adam) within Eden. If the first Adam was created by word of God and not from earth, this is
justified. We are not specifically told how the first Adam was created. Here is the verse:
Gen 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.27 So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
This Adam was created in the image of God, both male and femalewith the total freedom of choice
as one of the sons of God. In that case, he already had immortality - he must have eaten the fruit of
the Tree of life while in the Garden. Or did he die since the wages of sin is death?
The Mishna tells us that he was also seduced by succubae, generating demonic offspring (Eruv.
18b; Gen. R. 20:11; PdRE 20).
In the second Adam we are specifically told how he was produced. Only Adam was made not as
Male and Female but as an androgynous. God took care that he had his female part wihin Adam
himself to make any conflict between them and to produce unity within them.
Gen 2: 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul.
This is certainly one of the ways of solving the problem.
has thought about this possibility of two Adams.
I have not come across any other who
It was then that God separated the Garden in Eden by a wall to protect Adam.
Gen 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he
had formed.
This was indeed an earthly garden and was accessible to spiritual beings through the spiritual
realms.
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There are other, simpler ways to solve the contradiction. For example, Rashi, Rashbam and Radak
all assume that Gen. 1:26-27 was meant as a general statement and that Gen. 2 fills the reader in
with the details—a case of klal ufrat—a generality followed by specific detail.
Actually Jesus citation (Matthew 19:3–6 and Mark 10:6–9) which evidently can only refer to the
physical ha-Adam whose progeny alone continued on earth. At the time after the creation Adam
and Eve they were made male and female. Jesus does not mention the "made in the image of
God" part in either quotes that uniquely identify the first creation of mankind.
Mat. 19:3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, s“Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any
cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male
and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined
together, let not man separate.”
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall
leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,1 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no
longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
According to Aristophanes, there were three original genders, each globular in shape and
four-footed: an all-male form, an all-female form, and a form that included both sexes. These
humans were so large and powerful that they considered ascending into the sky to attack the gods.
Because the strength and intelligence of these forms threatened the gods’ authority, Zeus and his
divine cohorts split each of these forms into two halves.
Third gender or third sex is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or
by society, as neither man nor woman. It is also a social category present in societies that
recognize three or more genders. The term third is usually understood to mean "other"; some
anthropologists and sociologists have described fourth,] fifth, and "some" genders. Biology
determines whether a human's chromosomal and anatomical sex is male, female, or one of the
uncommon variations on this sexual dimorphism that can create a degree of ambiguity known as
intersex. However, the state of personally identifying as, or being identified by society as, a man, a
woman, or other, is usually also defined by the individual's gender identity and gender role in the
particular culture in which they live. Not all cultures have strictly defined gender roles.
In different cultures, a third or fourth gender may represent very different things. To the Indigenous
Māhū of Hawaii, it is an intermediate state between man and woman, or to be a "person of
indeterminate gender". The traditional Dineh of the Southwestern US acknowledge four genders:
feminine woman, masculine woman, feminine man, masculine man. The term "third gender" has
also been used to describe hijras of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan ] who have gained legal
identity, fa'afafine of Polynesia, and sworn virgins of the Balkans
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Hijras of India.
Was Adam a Hijra?
In addition, the other strange midrashic tradition regarding the original man, that he was a giant
stretching from one side of the world to another, makes sense when read in light of Plato. The end
of the passage in Leviticus Rabbah cited above, which states that the image of the original man
stretched from one world to the other, strikingly parallels Aristophanes’ description of the original
humans who planned to attack the gods.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
ADAM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶ‏ Gan Eden) or (often) Paradise, is the biblical "garden of God",
described most notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.
Genesis 13:10 refers to the "garden of God" (not called Eden by name) and the "trees of the
garden" are mentioned in Ezekiel 31. The Book of Zechariah and the Book of Psalms also refer to
trees and water in relation to the temple without explicitly mentioning Eden.
The word ‘Eden’ is defined by Strong’s dictionary as:
5731 ‘Eden, ay’-den; (masc.); Eden, the region of Adam’s home
5730 ‘eden, ay’-den; (fem.) `ednah, ed-naw’; delicate, delight, pleasure.
Genesis 2:8-10 Now YHVH Elohim had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the
man he had formed. And YHVH Elohim made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that
were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it
was separated into four headwaters.
The second part of the Genesis creation narrative in Genesis, opens with YHWH Elohim creating
the first man (Adam), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden". And
out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for
food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Traditionally, scholars favored deriving the name "Eden" from the Akkadian edinnu, derived
from a Sumerian word edin meaning "plain" or "steppe".
Eden is now believed to be more closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful,
well-watered."
Another interpretation associates the name "Eden" with a Hebrew word for "pleasure"; thus the
Douay-Rheims Bible in Genesis 2:8 has the wording "And the Lord God had planted a
paradise of pleasure" (rather than "a garden in Eden"). The Hebrew term is translated
"pleasure" as in Sarah's secret saying in Genesis 18:12.
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Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard
the Tree of life.
Eden and its rivers may signify the real Jerusalem, the Temple of Solomon, or the Promised
Land.
It may also represent the divine garden on Zion, and the mountain of God, which was also
Jerusalem. The imagery of the Garden, with its serpent and cherubim, has been compared
the images of the Solomonic Temple with its copper serpent (the nehushtan) and
guardian cherubs.
to
From this passage we learn that the garden was planted by YHVH of Elohim in the land of Eden.
Eden itself describe the area inside of which YHVH built a walled garden with gates for Adam and
Eve. The garden was watered by a river which flowed from Eden. The Talmud indicates that all
of the water in the world originated in Eden.
The old Iranian language Avestan had a noun pairidaēza-, "a wall enclosing a garden or orchard,"
which is composed of pairi-, "around," and daēza- "wall." The adverb and preposition pairi is related
to the equivalent Greek form peri, as in perimeter. Daēza- comes from the Indo-European root
*dheigh-, "to mold, form, shape." Zoroastrian religion encouraged maintaining arbors, orchards,
and gardens, and even the kings of austere Sparta were edified by seeing the Great King of Persia
planting and maintaining his own trees in his own garden. Xenophon, a Greek mercenary soldier
who spent some time in the Persian army and later wrote histories, recorded the pairidaēzasurrounding
the orchard as paradeisos, using it not to refer to the wall itself but to the huge parks
that Persian nobles loved to build and hunt in. This Greek word was used in the Septuagint
translation of Genesis to refer to the Garden of Eden, whence Old English eventually borrowed it
around 1200.
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There are several suggestions as to the original land called Eden and the location of the garden.
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http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/do-four-rivers-lead-us-garden-eden-008971
Robert McRoberts gives a detailed account of one of the possible place following the clues based
on the description of the Bible leading to a place in the lost city of Akad.
Here are his reasons:
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
This simply gives the picture of one river from Eden flowing out and joining four separate rivers. The
description is supposed to help us locate the garden.
In verse 10, the ancient Hebrew word used is nahar which generally refers to a large river like the
Nile or Euphrates, but it can also mean the sea.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The name Pishon comes from the root puwsh, which means to grow fat, spread out, or be scattered.
If a traveler went south on the Tigris this is exactly the condition they would find as the river gives
way to marshland.
12 and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Following the river into the sea and continuing along its eastern bank will take a traveler around the
harsh deserts of southern Iran and Pakistan. Indeed the word Havilah can be traced to the root
chuwl which means circular, to twist or whirl, or writhe in pain and the root chowl which means
sand.
The identification of Havilah as a source for bdellium, a resin for incense making, and onyx further
points to Iran and Pakistan. The Greek writer Theophrastus, and Pliny the Elder both identified
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areas in Afghanistan as the source of bdellium and even today Pakistan is one of the few suppliers
of Onyx.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
Gihon comes from the root giyach, which means to gush forth. This may well have described how
an ancient traveler would experience the mighty Euphrates as it finally emptied into the Persian
Gulf. By following the western bank of this course the traveler would eventually find themselves
rounding the Arabian peninsula and encountering Africa wherein lies the expected land of Cush,
ancient Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the
Euphrates.
Modern maps still show how the Tigris River follows the eastern flank of the land known as Assyria
by the Greeks and Ashur by its inhabitants. The Euphrates was presumably so well known that it
needed no appellation. This leaves us with four rivers that are joined by canals forming a large
x-shaped river network.
So where does this place the garden? If we look for a river that flows out of the steppe and enters
near the joint course of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers the eye cannot help but be drawn to the
Diyala River in eastern Iraq. Even today Iraq’s Diyala Province is known for its oranges and boasts
one of the largest olive groves in the region.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The introduction of man into the garden to “dress and keep” further reveals the language of
commerce. The term “dress” is abad in Hebrew. Abad means to serve as a laborer or in this case
perhaps as a husbandman. This meaning is reinforced by the word “keep” which in the ancient text
is shamar, a word that means to stand guard over.
The records from ancient Iraq are replete with contractual arrangements between landlords who
owned large herds and groves and the shepherds and guardsmen who tended their flocks and
foodstuffs as specialized laborers. The advent of large scale animal husbandry and irrigated
agriculture together with the connection to the world by vast trade networks is part of the legacy of
Mesopotamia. Fenced in groves and secure animal pens would have been commonplace and well
known in Babylonia at the time of the Hebrew Captivity when it is possible the Genesis accounts
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were written. During this time Akkad and the Akkadian Empire would have been remembered in
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Research.
Juris Zarins (born 1945, in Germany) is an
American-Latvian archaeologist and
professor at Missouri State University, who
specializes in the Middle East. In 1983, Juris
Zarins proposed the head of the Persian Gulf
as the location for Eden. where the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his
research on this area using information from
many different sources, including LANDSAT
images from space. In this theory, the Bible’s
Gihon River would correspond with the Karun
River in Iran, and the Pishon River would
correspond to the Wadi Batin river system
that once drained the now dry, but once quite
fertile central part of the Arabian Peninsula.
His suggestion about the Pishon River is
supported by James A. Sauer (1945–1999)
formerly of the American Center of Oriental
Places associated with Eden by various
scholars in Middle East.
Here is a map which locates the possible
positions of the Garden of Eden as the scholars
tried to locate this long lost paradise.
Here are some maps which I have collected
from the internet just to show how people have
been searching for the lost
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Eden in America.
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Eden in China
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There are many other placed suggested by biblical scholars.
Here is a map that locates a few.
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For details see: http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/edens.htm " In Search of Eden" - D Laing
also http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/583-east-is-eden-adam-and-eves-chinese-garden
http://www.toptenz.net/10-possible-locations-for-the-garden-of-eden.php
Genesis describes both the Tigris and Euphrates as originating in the Garden of Eden. One
argument against placing Eden in that area is that the flood, in Noah’s day might have removed all
traces of the rivers associated with Eden, in Genesis. There is no reason to believe that the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers are the same as the post diluvian rivers by those same names.
If the Garden of Eden had really been near the sources of the Tigris and the Euphrates, then the
geographic location would be generally in the region of the Taurus Mountains of Anatolia (in today's
Turkey).
As seen above most people assume that the garden of Eden was located somewhere near the
Persian Gulf. It could be the island Dilmun (now Bahrain). One recent claim by archaeologist
David Rohl puts the Garden of Eden in northwestern Iran, in a river valley east of Sahand Mountain,
near Tabriz.
Others points out places in Africa. Many speculations as to an African location stem from the
scientific evidence that human life is believed to have originated there. A passage in the Talmud
points to the interior of Africa as a possible location of Eden (Tamid 32b). Alexander the Great is
supposed to have found the entrance of the Garden in Africa which are governed exclusively by
women.
The Garden of Eden
from the fifteenth century illustrated manuscript
the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
A walled Garden
Others point to Java islands, Mohen Jodero-Harappa of Indus Valley (now in Pakistan on Indus
River), the island of Sri Lanka, the Seychelles, and Sundaland in the South China Sea There
have been attempts to tie the location of Eden with the mystical sunken land of Atlantis. Some
even suggest that the place of Eden covered the whole of Africa
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We should remember that before continental drift happened the whole land of all continents were
together as one unit.
Jerusalem was probably the umbilical cord that connected the fetus to the mother. We can see
why the four rivers flow from the naval into India, Ethiopia and the fertile crescent. Which are the
nearest neighbors.
In Latter-day Saint (Mormon) theology, the Garden of Eden is believed to have been located at
what is now inside the city limits of Independence, Missouri. The Urantia Book (1955), considered
by some as a channeled revelation assumed to come from angelic beings, places the Garden of
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Eden in a long narrow peninsula projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
Sea which was long ago submerged in connection with volcanic activity.
AXIS MUNDI
How was the world created?
When God created the world, He didn’t create it as a vast expanse of existence all at once. Rather,
He created a single point, and from there, He drew out the entire universe.
This is similar to the big bang theory. When the unknowable Ein Sof Aur came to be a knowable
existent being he started the universe with a single point. How could a point which does not have
any dimension become a reality remaining secret, the point being of immensly dense evidently
exploded into vast universe as we know it today.
This is the Hebrew tradition of creation. In Jerusalem on a hill where now sits a Mosque, there is a
stone. That stone is called the Even Shetia, literally the Foundation Stone. From that stone the
entire Universe was drawn out. In other words, when God created the world, there was a single
point of contact between this physical world and the world beyond in other dimensions which we
call Heavens.
It is on this stone was Abraham was asked bring his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God so that he his
and progeny may be eternally bound to holy God as priests to the world. It was on this stone that
Jacob dreamed where he saw the ladder connecting Heaven and
Earth and angels going up and down on it.
Around that stone stood the two Holy Temples. In the first
Temple, the Holy Ark – with the Torah tablets - sat on top of that
Foundation Stone, and around it was the Holy of Holies;
around the Holy of Holies was the Sanctuary; around the
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Sanctuary was the Courtyard of the
Temple;
around that was Jerusalem;
and around Jerusalem -- the universe.
Thus the the tablets represent the Tee of Life, and the Garden of Eden was recreated in the Temple.
And it is around that stone that we will see the Third and final Temple inaugurated in the month of
Cheshvan.
Michael A. Fishbane describes the Garden of Eden as “an axis mundi. From it radiate primal
streams to the four quarters. . . . It is the navel or omphalos,” and the tree of life stands at “the
center of this center.”
Explaining the choice of a tree to represent the concepts of life, earth, and heaven in ancient
cultures. Ezekiel 28:13 places Eden on the mountain of God. “Eden, as a luxuriant cosmic
mountain becomes an archetype or symbol for the earthly temple.” Described by Isaiah as “the
mountain of the Lord’s house” (Isaiah 2:2), the Jerusalem temple can be identified—like Eden—as
a symbol of the center. Israelite traditions asserted that the foundation stone in front of the ark
within the Holy of Holies of the temple at Jerusalem “was the first solid material to emerge from the
waters of creation [see Psalm 104:7–9], and it was upon this stone that the Deity effected creation.”
As a famous passage in the Midrash Tanhuma states:
"Just as a navel is set in the middle of a person, so the land of Israel is the navel of the world [cf.
Ezekiel 38:12; see also Ezekiel 5:5]. . . .
The land of Israel sits at the center of the world;
Jerusalem is in the center of the land of Israel;
the sanctuary is in the center of Jerusalem;
the Temple building is in the center of the sanctuary;
the ark is in the center of the Temple building; and the foundation stone,
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out of which the world was founded, is before the Temple building. [John T. Townsend, ed.,
Midrash Tanhuma, 3 vols. (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989–2003), Qedoshim 7:10, Leviticus 19:23ff.,
part 1, 2:309–10.]
So much for the efforts to identify the location of Eden.
In the rabbinic writings, Eden, like Jerusalem, is simultaneously located on earth and within the
precincts of heaven (M. Ber. 5:3). The Sages describe an earthly garden, Gan Eden shel ha-Aretz,
which mirrors (imperfectly) the heavenly Garden, Gan Eden shel Malah or shel Elyon. Eventually
there evolves an idiomatic and symbolic distinction between Gan and Eden. Gan is the earthly
portion, while Eden is the locality where the righteous dead reside (Shab. 119a; Ber. 18a; Ket. 103a;
Zohar III:182b).
The Cave of Machpelah is the entryway to the higher Eden (Mid. Teh. 92:6). Its entrance is guarded
by myriads of Angels, who welcome the righteous dead, garbing them in glory. Each dead Soul
rests beneath their individual canopy and partakes in delicacies. Each heavenly day, the person
undergoes a complete life cycle, being a child in the morning, a youth in the afternoon, and a
mature adult in the evening. Every variety of fruit and spice tree grows there, each of unsurpassed
beauty and fragrance (Yalkut Bereshit 20; Ber. 34b).
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CHAPTER EIGHT
THE GARDEN OF EDEN AS GOD'S SANCTUARY
In my study on Genesis 1:1 I have shown that the very first letter of the Bible is beit the second
letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the first being Alef. The first represents the God who can be known
when He transformed from beyond existence to existence. His first concern was to make a home
- a beit - for His family. My interpretation is that God created the universe so that He could live with
his Sons and Daughters in constant communion. . The whole creation is thus considered as
God's home, where he lives with his children communing and enjoying with them. In this sense
the whole creation is a temple. If we look at the Biblical picture of the Universe we will see the
three dimensional aspect of Universe is comparison with the Tripartriate structure of the temple.
Tripartiate Structure of Universe compared to the
Templehttps://gospelofchristcrucified.com/project/chapter-2-biblical-worldview/
Just as there was a tripartite sacred structure to the Temple, there is a tripartite structure to creation
with Garden of Eden standing as a Holy of Holies, Eden and earth as Holies and Universe as the
Sanctuary. This will usher in the concept that earth was initially created to act as the Garden of
the Universe with man as the high priests to bring salvation to the whole universe. God sits on the
throne in the Holy of Holies in Heaven.
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Universe as a temple simply implies that the universe was built as a home for God to live with his
children.
As far as we know, this failed in at least some dimensions, as we see in the fall of Lucifer.
But as we have seen, the very first attempt in the physical world, the creation of Adamites on the
earth as male and female also somehow did not work.
Hence we see that God created one man called as Adam (if we assume two Adam theory is correct)
or God chose one man called Adam from this mankind and separated him from the wide open earth
as a sojourner and moved him into a walled Garden inside Eden towards the East. This was the
renewed attempt to make a place where God could commune and walk with his human children.
Knowing the Fathers heart he was finding a way to redeem them without violating their freedom
and the freedom of choice.
When even this experiment failed, and Adam and Eve were forced to be sent out, lest the selfish
community of children of Adam, eat of the fruit of the tree of life and be immortal and life will end up
for them as eternal hell. To avoid this Adam and Eve were sent out of the Garden of Eden and the
doors of Eden were closed and locked.
Again God selected a small group of his sons to start off the new experiment with a 'movable
sanctuary' as the starting point in place of Eden. When they again moved from the wanderers to
settled agriculturalist it was converted into a Temple a permanent place of contact.. Hence it is
natural to see a comparison between the Sanctuary of the wandering period of Israel, theTemple in
Jerusalem and the Garden of Eden. They are all the point of contact of God with his children
which He longed for and for which he created the earth and all its life and structures.
In this chapter we will look at the Garden of Eden as a Temple and thus the first Sanctuary.
(Lifsa Schachter: http://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/412/jbq_41_2_gardenofeden.pdf;
9 Reasons The Garden of Eden Was a Temple:Derek Rishmawy:
https://derekzrishmawy.com/2012/12/07/9-reasons-the-garden-of-eden-was-a-temple/
G.K. Beale (Gregory K. Beale: Eden, the Temple, and the Church's Mission in the New Creation:JETS48/1 (March
2005) 5–31 http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/48/48-1/48-1-pp005-031_JETS.pdf) gives 9 arguments/lines of
reasoning for that point (pp. 617-621):
The Garden of Eden, the Ancient Temple, and Receiving a New Name
By Alex Douglas
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/ascending-mountain-lord-temple-praise-and-worship-old-testament/garden-eden-ancient-t
emple
1. Temple as presence of God-
In the later OT the Temple was the place of God’s special presence where he made himself known
and felt to Israel. That is exactly how his walking with Adam and Eve in the Garden is depicted.
(Gen. 3:8) 1.
God walks in both the Garden of Eden and the Tabernacle.
Exodus 25:8, God simply states, “And let them make me a sanctuary [literally, “a holiness”]; that I
may dwell among them.” Though the English translation suggests that the edifice was meant to be
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the actual dwelling place of God, the Hebrew term shakan, translated as “dwell,” implies a
nonpermanent residence. In other words, while the verb can signify a long stay, it does not
necessarily suggest an indefinite stay. In light of this, it may be more accurate to view the
tabernacle as more of a meeting place rather than as a permanent dwelling place of God.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden...
Leviticus 26:11-12 And I will set my tabernacle among you...And I will walk among you...
2. Adam as High Priest.
Adam is placed in the garden to “cultivate (abad)” and “keep (samar)” it (Gen 2:15). The same two
words are translated elsewhere “serve” and “guard”, and when they appear together, they are
either referring to Israelites serving or obeying God’s word, or more usually, to the job of the priest
in guarding and keeping the Temple.
Num, 3:7-8 They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of
meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle. 8 They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of
meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle. (Num. 3:7-8;
8:25-26; 1 Chron. 23:32) Elsewhere Adam is portrayed dressed in the clothes of the high priest,
functioning as a high priest. (Ezek 28:11-19; see Beale, pg. 618 on this for more argumentation.)
The tabernacle used gold and onyx stones as decorating material for the tent, the objects inside,
and even the priest’s outfits. These materials were known to come from the pre-flood region of
Havilah (India), likely were Eden was located (Genesis 2:12
Special garments are required in both places
Genesis 3:21 For Adam and for his wife the Lord God made leather coats [ketonet]...
Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make...an embroidered coat
3. The tree of life as the Lampstand.
The tree of life served as a model for the lampstand, which was clearly shaped as a tree, in the
Temple.
The menorah itself was formed mikshah, that is, beaten from a single piece of pure gold that
weighed 3,000 shekels of silver (nearly 100 pounds). It was a highly decorative work that had
seven branches (with seven lamps), nine flower blooms, eleven fruits, and twenty two cups, all that
were "one" with its substance (Exod. 25:31). The central shaft held the light of the shamash
(servant lamp), and served as the base for the other branches. According to the Talmud, the
menorah measured eighteen tefachim (i.e., "palms") in height (from the base to the start of the
lamps), or roughly 5.25 feet. It is called the "lamp of God" in the Scriptures (1 Sam. 3:3).
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4, Temple Carvings Represent Garden.
Israel’s later Temple was made with wood carvings of flowers, palm trees, etc. meant to recall
Eden’s garden brilliance (1 Kings 6:18, 29, 32, 35); pomegranates were also placed at the bottom
of the two stone pillars in the Temple. (7:18-20)
1 Kings 6:18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers.
All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen. ….
29 he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm
trees and open flowers, within and without .
The items within the temple were also decorated to represent a garden. The two great pillars
leading to the inner court were adorned with lilies, and they were decorated as two large trees,
being covered with two-hundred pomegranates each (see 1 Kings 7:19–20). Just as the pillars, the
golden menorah in the sanctuary was envisioned as a tree, and in its description we hear that it had
“branches,” “flowers,” and “bowls made like unto almonds” (Exodus 25:31–33).
Ten similar lampstands lined the sides of the inner sanctuary (see 1 Kings 7:49), and with each
modeled as a tree, the effect must have been similar to walking into a forest. Further reinforcing
the impression of a garden scene were the animals depicted throughout the sanctuary.
Washbasins covered with “lions, oxen, and cherubims” (1 Kings 7:29) could be found within the
temple, and the great bronze laver stood on twelve oxen and was decorated “with flowers of lilies”
(1 Kings 7:25–26).
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5. Facing East.
The Tabernacle and the Temples (both the first and the second temple) were constructed so
that, the entrances faced east, while the Holy of Holies is in the west side.
Eastern churches on the other hand places their Holy of Holies facing East so that the windows of
the sanctuary will glow with the rising sun. This is in opposition to the Garden of Eden. The
reason for this facing towards the East is the scriptural statemen the "As the sun rises in the east
and goes towards the west;so shall be the coming of the Son of Man' Thus the second coming of
Jesus is from the East and Christians await the coming of the redeemer from that direction.
The entrance to the Temple however was to the east facing towards the west. (Ex. 15:17), just as
the end-time temple prophesied in Ezekiel is 40:2, 6; 43:12 (see also Ezek. 28:14, 16)
6. Tree of Knowledge of the Good and Evil as the Ark.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the ark of the covenant both were accessed or
touched only on pain of death. Also, both were sources of wisdom.
The knowledge of the Good and Evil is evidently the laws. Just as the physical laws controls the
physical world, the moral laws controls the moral world. Any violation of the law will lead to
consequent punishment. Thus in the sanctuary and the temple it is represented by the Ark of the
covenant inside of which is the two plates that were written by the hand of God - the ten
commandments. Ten commandments are only the basics. God will instrunct his children other
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principles and laws to be careful and this is giver at the Ark where God will meet with the High
Priest. Thus it is the ark which is the place of meeting of God with the High Priest.
Exodus 25:17 “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit
and a half wide. 18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. 19
Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece
with the cover, at the two ends. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward,
overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give
you. 22 There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law,
I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
Inside the ark is the two tablets of the law which represents the fruit of the knowledge of what is
right and what is wrong. It is the law that brings the death sentence. Since no one can live exactly
by law alone as it is not interpreted in the Spirit. Violation of the slightest from the law brings its
sentence of death. It is also the tree of life.
The rollers that hold a Torah scroll are known by Jews, as the “Tree of Life”.
Proverbs 3:13-20 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom (Torah), the man who gains
understanding, … She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be
blessed.
The prayer when the Torah is returned to the ark was :
“Return O God, to the myriads of Israel’s families. Arise God to Your resting place, You and
Your mighty ark. Clothe Your priests with righteousness. May those who have experienced Your
faithful love shout for joy. For the sake of Your servant David, don’t delay the return of Your
Messiah.”
“I give you good instruction; do not forsake My Torah. A tree of life it is for those who take hold of it,
and blessed are the ones who support it. It’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all it’s paths are
peace. Long life is in it’s right hand, in it’s left are riches and honor. God was pleased for the
sake of His righteousness, to render the Torah great and glorious.”
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The narrative describing the construction of the tabernacle is in seven segments
(Exodus 25:1; Exodus 30:11, 17 , 34 ; Exodus 31:1 , Exods 31: 12 ).
The sixth segment—Exodus 31:1 describes the Spirit of God fills men to create and craft the
objects for the tabernacle.
The seventh segment—Exodus 31:12 reminds the nation of keeping the sabbath.
These two segments both correspond nicely with the sixth and seventh days of Creation in Genesis
The Synagogue also in some form reflect the Garden of Eden
http://www.betemunah.org/eden.html
The following diagram depicts the synagogue AND it also depicts the Garden of Eden. The
synagogue walls around Gan Eden. The Tebah, or Bimah for the Ashkenazi, is an elevated
platform in the center of the synagogue, just as the Tree of Life was in the center of the garden, so
also is the grasping and the reading of the Torah done in the center of the synagogue. The wooden
rollers for a Tolrah scroll are called “the Tree of Life”. The book of Mishle (Proverbs) calls the Torah
the Tree of Life.
Here is the layout of the synagogue:
http://www.betemunah.org/eden.html
A = Hechal (the Ark) – storage for the Torah scroll.
B = Small Teba (Lectern) from where the Chazzan leads the services.
C = Seats for the Officers of the Congregation (most synagogues have the seating either
horizontally with some inclination or vertically).
D = Seats for men who sit on the first floor and women in the second floor or atrium.
E = The greater Tebah, or Bimah, (raised platform) on which the Torah is read and the Hakham
delivers his Sermon. Here is where we grasp the Tree of Life and read the Torah!
Behind the greater Tebah usually there are seats reserved for the Hakhamim and this seating is
also known as the seat of Moshe.
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