Love in the Making 2019

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Proverbs 365 Ministries

Eric Walsh

God and the Pleasure Principle

As a man, you should have what you're going to do before you try and figure out who you're going to spend the rest of your life with, or at least be on the path.

The second thing is Eve is the only 1 that was not created de novo, meaning she was taken from man.

In a sense then, she is the last thing created.

And when you look at the creation story, it gets everything is more complex as you go through the creation week.

Which means, women are the most complex thing God created.

So, and we know this from science that in fact a woman's brain, the left and right hemispheres of a woman's brain actually can communicate across the corpus callosum.

So a woman has, 1 of the reasons women have intuition is because the 2 halves of their brain communicate in a way men's brains don't.

Now, the problem for women with that is women are often slower to make...

...To be more sure where men will just quickly make a decision and go with it.

Now, granted, that gets men lost a lot, confused a lot.

They often get in the corners a lot and make bad decisions.

But for that reason, often men move faster through life in many ways sometimes than women do.

So she's the last thing created, and she's taken from man.

And notice that she is taken from his rib.

God could have taken her from his cranium and she would have ruled over man, beating him on his head.

He could have took her from his foot, which would have been symbolic that he now would rule over her, but she's taken from his side because inherent in the story of creation is the equality of the sexes.

In fact, we'll get more to it later, but in fact, when you go into it even deeper, there's a lot more that shows you man and woman were created equal.

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Now, I want you to imagine what it must have been like the first time Adam laid eyes on Eve.

He'd seen male and female, like bulls and cows.

When he saw his match, and you gotta imagine, Eve had to be stunningly beautiful.

She was created by God's hand before sin had ever entered the world.

I'm sure when Adam saw her he couldn't even speak.

Literally that's 1 of the neural chemical things that happens when a man is dumbfounded by a woman's beauty his ability to speak can be affected.

That's why he probably said something like, wow, she's bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman.

And then the Bible says that's why a man should leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be 1 flesh and they were both naked and the man and his wife and they were not what?

So in Eden on the last day the last thing created is Eve.

The first institution that established here is the institution of marriage, of the 2 institutions that will also leave the Garden of Eden after sin.

Now, when you look at it, the 2 of them are to become 1 flesh.

We're going to talk about how that happens in a second.

There was never supposed to be stigma or shame attached to the romantic aspect of life.

Stigma and shame and all of the problems that have come came because of sin.

They were naked, they were happy, they were in the garden, and everything was wonderful.

Now, the first question that you have to ask is, why then was Eve even created?

God could have stopped creating, and Adam could have tended.

He was going to live for, how long would he have lived if there was no sin?

God could have fixed up the world, all the animals could have replicated and the species diversified, and Adam could have been there by himself.

The truth of the matter is that there are animals in the world to this day who can still reproduce without having a partner.

So God has the ability to create animals who did not need an opposite sex.

For example, the whip-tail lizards, who have been found to sometimes reproduce without a male.

In Australia, I've always found some of the most interesting animals happen to be down under in Australia.

And now they even got an insect that's a stick that can reproduce without a husband.

And then you have the small tooth sawfish, which can also do that.

Now, there's a snake that can do it as well.

So and of course, If I was going back to when I studied biology in college, there are many lower forms of animals that also don't have male and female.

So God did not, and this is the point, he did not have to create Eve in order for the species to actually be reproduced.

Now, there's only 1 time in all of human history that a human was able to be produced, and the woman did it without a husband or without a man.

So the truth is Eve was not necessary, which means her creation is even more intriguing.

The fact that she was created, she did not have to be created, says a lot about what God was looking to do.

So Genesis 2, 18 says, and the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be what?

In a nutshell, because it wasn't good for man to be alone.

So he could have made another man but he didn't he made the opposite sex to compliment Adam now notice the Bible does not say that God made Adam a help mate he made him a help meet and I would like to say, I'll take some political or poetic license I should say, and say that the E's are for equality rather than the A.

In other words, Eve was created as his equal to be his partner and to assist him in all the work he was going to have to do in what he was going to do for the entire world.

There was something special about Eve, special about woman so that Adam could do the work God designed him to do.

So that he would be a better soldier in the army of God.

There was no war yet, there wasn't sin yet, but so that Adam could fulfill his purpose.

So Ellen White says here, in the beginning, when the Sabbath law was given, the marriage law was also given.

It was then that God bestowed on man his 2 great gifts, the Sabbath as a day of rest and woman as a what?

Now, I found fascinating as I was reading and studying for this that if Eve is the last thing since Eve is the last thing created on the sixth day The first full 24 hours that Adam and Eve spend together are what day?

So they don't get together and get put to work.

They get put together and get to do what?

So the first full day of the dual existence of Adam and Eve, Sabbath and marriage coexist in perfect harmony.

I believe that on that day God dwelt with them.

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