Story 2

God used six time periods to create all he wanted to and rested on the seventh period. A day to God is thousands upon thousands of years to man. In fact the whole time period of existence of man may be as a blink of an eye to God. We think of history as long and drawn out, but really it is because we think in Earthling terms.

At the end of creation God created man and it was the woman which was his last creation. So, now we come to the account when Adam met Eve?

Creation of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden (Chapter Two)

4 This is the history of the sky and the Earth when they were created. When God made the Earth and sky 5 no shrubs and vegetation of the field had yet appeared on the Earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, because God had not made it rain upon the Earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground, 6 but mist would rise from the Earth and it would water the whole surface of the ground.

7 God created the man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

8 God planted a Garden in Eden to the East and there he put the man he had created. 9 Then God caused all kinds of trees to grow out of the ground; trees that were desirable to the eye and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the Garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. 10 A river watered the Garden of Eden that parted into four smaller rivers. The first river was Pishon; it meandered through the entire land of Havilah where there was gold. 12 And the gold of that land was good. There were also aromatic resin and onyx. 13 The second river was Gihon which meandered through the entire land of Cush. 14 And the third river was Hiddekel that went to the East of Assyria. The fourth was the river Euphrates.

15 God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it. 16 God commanded the man, “From every tree of the garden you may eat, 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat, because if you do eat from it you shall die.

18 God continued to say, “It is not good for the man to live alone. I shall provide him a suitable helper. 19 God created the wild animals of the field and all the flying creatures and brought them to the man to see what he would call each one. 20 So the man named all the livestock, the flying creatures of the sky and every wild animal of the field, but for the man there was found no suitable helper. 21 So God caused the man to go into a deep sleep and as he was sleeping he took out one of ribs and healed up the flesh. 22 Then God created the woman from the rib he took from the man and presented her to him.

23 Then the man said:

This is the bone of my bones,

And the flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman,

For she was taken out of man.

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and become united with his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 They continued to live naked and yet did not feel ashamed for each other.

Adam named all the animals but, he found that he did not have a mate. So God put Adam into a sleep and took a rib and formed Eve. He was so delighted he married her. He was happy to have a wife; a friend and somebody too help him and console him. She was somebody to love and somebody who was flesh like him. We can imagine that they were very much in love. Now he had a personal friend he could spoil with fruit and vegetables and take her for swims in the pools fed by waterfalls. Adam and Eve were happy and perhaps they may even end up having children just as happy as their parents. Yes they could create life. They were perfect and not ashamed of their nakedness as we sinners are.