What are some of the first words that come to mind when you hear the name Eve? Possibly things like first woman, forbidden fruit, the Fall, perhaps even Wall-E. The writer of She Reads Truth: Women in the Bible, Part 1 asks us to put aside all of our preconceived notions of who Eve was and focus on Genesis 1:26 - 2:25. This is the end of the Creation account where it is detailed how God created man and woman. It is at a time when everything in the world is new and perfect. Nothing has been destroyed, no one has sinned.
Not only did God speak our very world into existence, He took the time to make Man in His image. The account tells us that He spoke and most of the things He created were called into existence by His words, but not so for man. God didn't say, "Let there be man" and then there was man. He said, "Let us make man in Our image" and He took the time to form man from the dust of the ground and breathe life into him. When He made woman, He could have easily reverted back to "Let there be woman", but again, He chose to form woman from the rib of the man. God took the time to form our very first ancestors individually.
"This is the way we were created, friends -- with care and intention, with the very hands and breath of God." - She Reads Truth: Women in the Bible, Part 1
-Meg
When I hear the name Eve, I guess I think about sin and how she and Adam were the first to sin by eating the forbidden fruit. But Eve should be seen as much more than that. "27So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." -Genesis 1:27, Eve is such an important part of the creation of humans, she is the first mom, she bore the first children, which made it possible for all of us to be here today. She was made in God's image just as Adam had been. Our focus today should be on the greatness of God not on the Sin that entered the world.
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