Adam was created alone--single. By studying the opening chapters of Genesis, we discover practical lessons for what to do while single and what to look for in a spouse.

ACF Institute 2017: Never Alone

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Adventist Christian Fellowship (ACF)

Anil Kanda

Singlehood

You know, when you open up the book of Genesis, you're introduced to something quite amazing.

Notice what the Bible says, and I really believe, by the way, most people who open up the scripture, this is the verse that they're coming across.

The very first verse they're coming across.

Let's see what the Bible says right here.

What is the very first thing you're introduced to when you open up the Bible?

By the way, is it seeking to prove God's existence here?

Is there some kind of argument or apologetic?

In the Bible, is there ever an argument for God's existence?

It's supposed to be the most, the plainest fact out there that God exists, right?

So in other words, the Bible doesn't simply prove God's existence.

It just affirms what reality is in the beginning What God?

Created the heavens and the earth Now when you read Genesis chapter 1 you get a good survey of creation, right?

You know when you read Genesis chapter 1 It's all ordinary ordinary narrative right when you're reading it.

God did this God created this God created this Until you get to something very strange in Genesis 1 go to verse Genesis chapter 1 go to verse 26 So we know in Genesis 1 God is creating this he's creating this he's creating this he's creating this and then all of a sudden the language becomes a little bit confusing notice what it says in verse 26 so we all there.

Then God said, let us make man in our own image according to our likeness and let them have domain over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over cattle, over all over the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him male and female he created them what is so strange about that verse now before you give me an interpretation I want you to think about the English language What is so strange about this verse?

If you were an English teacher and you're reading Genesis chapter 1, you'd come across verse 27.

Why would it suddenly just like, wait, what?

So it says this, verse 27, so God created man in his own image, and the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

Does that sound like ordinary narrative English?

The rest of Genesis 1 is ordinary narrative English, but when you get to verse 27, it's like really redundant, and here's the reason why.

Here's something that Hebrew writers know that Moses knew that people who were reading the English translation do not know, and that is this, that verse 27 is actually Hebrew poetry.

It's something called paradigmatic parallelism.

In other words, when Moses was writing out verse 27, God impressed him at that moment to write in very poetic language.

The rest of the creation of the world is written in ordinary language.

You would think, why in the world would God describe the creation of man in very emotional language?

Although the creation of the world and all the contents of this world were quite amazing your creation was something that touched the heart of God.

You know, 1 day I had a friend, 1 day who went to a guitar shop.

He went to a guitar shop and he was trying to buy a guitar and he sees this beautiful guitar on the wall and he tells the owner, he's like, how much is that guitar?

So he then tells the owner, come on, give me a price tag.

My friend, as stubborn as I am, said, hey, look, just name a price.

Finally, the owner says, I'm going to tell you a story.

You see, there was this big old tree in my backyard.

He said, my father, when he was young, used to swing on the same tree.

My grandfather, he was on that same tree.

There's a lot of memories associated with that tree.

And then he said, 1 day, lightning struck that tree.

And he said, I put it in my garage, my shop.

And I began to make this beautiful guitar.

And he says, as I began to make this guitar, he says, Tears began to come down my eyes as I thought about all the memories and all the things that were connected to this.

You don't come from some primordial soup that's been struck by lightning.

The origins not found some crystal strike in this world or some alien that seeded this planet.

We're going to understand something else.

We were created for love to go to Genesis chapter 2.

The Bible talks about the creation of man.

The scriptures tell us something powerful.

And the Lord God for man out of the what?

Dust of the ground breathe into his nostrils the what?

What was the very first breath that mankind took?

The first air that went through Adam's lungs were the what?

Such a powerful thing when you begin to understand that let's continue with this and Man became a living being verse 8 then the Lord God planted the garden eastward Eden and there he put who?

The man who he had formed and out of the ground the Lord God made every tree that is to grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Now, the Bible talks about a little bit of the description of Eden.

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