Title: First Woman Eve/Genesis 2: 18-23
Content Title: First Woman Eve/Genesis 2: 18-23
1. The History of Eve
The word 'good' (good) appears six times in Genesis 1. However, if we move on to Chapter 2, the word 'not good' appears once. Everything looked good, but it was not good (not good) for Adam (human) to be alone. So God worked again to create a perfect human being, a living human (a pair).
2. Who is the woman?
1) It was not good for Adam to be alone, so God took Adam's rib and created another man and set him up in front of him in order to make a helper (matchmate) opposite him. Then Adam said: "You have finally appeared. Bone from my bones, flesh from my flesh."
2) Why did God create a woman from a man's rib? The wisdom of Israel is said to have been passed down as follows: "He did not make it from the skull so that a woman should not climb over a man. He did not make it from the bones of her feet so that she would not be trampled upon. In the flanks to be equal with men, under the arms for his protection, and close to the heart to receive his love. made of bones from a place."
3. What is a woman to a man?
1) The meaning of Eve, the woman, is “life” (Genesis 3:20). Adam is a human being, and therefore, the two becoming one means that "a man of life" and "a living man" begin. Without a woman, he must remain as Adam and cannot become a man. There is a man because there is a woman. In other words, a man cannot live without the help of a woman, and a woman has value only when she helps a man.
2) The first thing God did after creating the universe was to officiate the wedding of the groom Adam and the bride Eve. The fact that the two become one body is a marital mystery, both physically and mentally, and is the principle of monogamy. When God, who made the two out of one, brings the two together again, there is a secret of marriage, and fertility and prosperity become possible. Parents give birth to and raise children, and when the children grow up, they meet their spouses and build a new family. That is the principle of the family ordained by God. In this way, the God who created man also created the family system for him.
4. Tempted Eve
1) The story of the first man being tempted by the serpent, eating the 'forbidden fruit' and being expelled from Eden is the saddest story in all of the Bible. In this case, Adam and Eve, who were supposed to be together, were separated, so Satan intercepted and tempted them. Satan seemed to have sympathy with the woman, but he provoked doubts about the Word of God and tempted him to rebel.
2) It was wrong to start talking with the snake. Eve truncated, obscured, added, and altered the Word of God, seduced by the serpent's temptation to cause disbelief in it (3:1-4). A woman who committed a crime gave her husband the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil to eat. Faith must be done with a heart that evokes emotion and heats it, and a head that does not waver with the word.