Now, if you buy that line, answer me this one. The only place where we see the 'perfect state' of human existence is Genesis 1 and 2. Now, if this was written by a male misogynist, why would he write this:
- 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind 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.”
- 27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.- 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Nothing that makes male superior to female, or vice versa. Together, they rule over. Everything that follows the first two chapters is less than the ideal.
You missed the bit where it was Adam who named Eve as a sign of his dominion over her and how Adam had two counts against him in the fall. 1. Listening to his wife and 2. Eating the fruit.
ReplyDeleteGen 2 does not negate Gen 1. In Gen 1 it is 'let us make ... in our image.' The man alone was not the image because man alone is a singularity incapable of carrying out the command of God to 'make life.' Just as the 'us' is a plurality, the image must also be a plurality.
DeleteThe man was to leave his parents and become one with his wife. Just as the Godhead is a singular plurality, so the image is to be a singular plurality. And it is this singular plurality that is to rule over - as one. Just as the Godhead rules as one.