Is Genesis
all about sacred sexuality?
The act of love-making reveals what is most dearly, deeply and
fully human about being human. Naked love-making gave Adam
and Eve insight,
but also
got them booted from paradise.
Their exile is certainly the main
point to the Rib story, so our
Earthfolk Big Question is,
“Why is Genesis all about sexuality?”
For the traditional Abrahamic, the
question is definitely wrong-headed. Traditionalist theologians say, "Genesis is,
clearly, not about
sexuality. It is about man's relationship to God,
a relationship based upon bestowed dominion." For
them, it is a key account about God’s
power and mankind’s dominion—not just physical brute strength
but spiritual power.
In traditional light, Genesis reveals
that the only way to be fully
human is to be fully a Lone Male. And the only way
to be fully a Lone Male, as Adam
was, is to live without the female. Remember, the
female is a consolation prize. God assesses
that Adam is "lonely" and
so she is made.
Yet, she is not made primarily
as a sex mate, rather, her sexuality only becomes
manifest in the "normal" way
when she is in
exile. Only in exile does she become mother.
When she is created,
her
femaleness is expressed through her
subordination to Adam.
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