There are basically 3 major issues in Genesis Chapter 2 :
1) Sabbath rest – this has never been resolved like whether we should keep it or not.
2) Marriage – marriage between a man and a woman. This issue is very important as marriages are breaking down everywhere.
3) Man’s responsibilities over the environments.
Sabbath Rest
Why did God rest? We rest when we are tired. But God is never tired. There are two meaning to “rest”, a) we rest when tired b) “rest” can also mean “completed”. As God completed creating heaven and earth He rested. Completed His work, there was nothing else to do. God what He created was “Good”.
There are 3 kinds of rest:
1. Ceasing from what He has done.
2. God ordered the Jews to rest one day per week, that was the Sabbath day.
3. The Christian Sabbath. Hebrew 4:1-12
God wanted the people to understand that rest was important and He wanted the people to rest a day in a week.
Vs. 7 God formed man, shaping man into man and woman. This can be said to be His highest artistic skills. He breathed into man. Why did He breathed onto the nose of man? It was like the “kiss of life”. Breathing into the nose signified a) that it was personal b) He was intimate with man. This were given to man so that he can have intimacy with God. In John 20:22 Jesus breathed onto the disciples so that they received the Holy Spirit. Jesus imparted Pentecost and regeneration to them so that man became spiritual being.
Man created in the image of God. There are two meaning a) image – pictorial word, picture of God. b) likeness- spiritual make-up of man. Man is spiritual he is able to relate to God. God Himself is a family, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Marriage
Vs. 18. Man is created for relationship and fellowship with God and with each others. The climax is that he can give and receive love.
God also created gender, male and female. Man and woman are complimentary and they do not oppose each other. Like man created to have more muscles than woman. Although we are created man and woman, in God we are one. Galatians 3:26. Every woman has worth in the eye of God. When man and woman married they are “one in the fresh”, Vs.24. The spiritual aspect of marriage is a wife is a woman, and a husband a man. This is permanent. The Bible affirmed marriage, it says when a man and woman got married, they “cleaved” to each other.
The Environments
Vs. 8, man was placed in the garden after God created the earth. He was to take charge of the vegetations and animals. He was supposed to be responsible for the environments. God also created farming Vs.15. God said man can eat everything in the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God placed boundaries on human. These boundaries are for our good. Like so many things in life boundaries helped us to stay safe within each boundary otherwise we will suffer.
Vs. 25 man and his wife were naked and they felt no shame. This means man can be innocent but not naïve.
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