Genesis chapter two presents the Garden
of Eden account. Right from the start events
take a wildly imaginative twist—not inaccurately
described as bizarre.
First, the male is created by a seemingly
lone male god.
Most Earthfolk heard this story in childhood Sunday
School sessions and it is
easy to glide over images and statements that
are familiar but upon reflection are
really unusual.
As a sojourning alien the immediate questions raised are,
“Why is there only one
god?”
"Why are there only two
males, here?”
“Where is the Mother goddess?”
With these questions unanswered, the
story relates that the Father god realizes that the lone male Adam is
lonely. As an aside comes the thought, “How could
he be lonely if there are no other humans around, male or female?”
The god then creates the woman—not as he has
done the man, from earthen dust—from a bodily part of the male.
The god puts the lone male in a deep sleep and removes a rib.
The woman is created from the
male rib. “What is the meaning of this?”
One answer is that the story plainly
states that
“the male body is the birthing
body.”
What an astounding,
amazing, weird, fabulous, incredible…wildly imagined
revelation! “Why? What is the deeper message
of this story?” Earthfolk hold that it is a statement
about intimacy.
Continue—Abrahamic
