She was called Eve. She was the “mother of all the living.” I find it interesting that the man “named” his wife
according to the New International Version. This occurs in chapter 3, but let us look at chapter 2 for a moment.
That’s the beauty of male-female relationships. There’s so much that we see as differences between us. Yet, God saw fit to take from the man to make the woman. He created them both. He utilized their union to symbolize Christ’s union with the body of believers. He sanctified and ordained the union of man and woman long before municipalities authorized and legalized marriages. Yes, we were made for each other because He made us so and He saw that it was good.
Let us not neglect the blessed union that God has provided for us. Let every marriage be seen as God’s sacred unification of man and woman as one flesh. We should love one another, male and female, husband and wife, as gifts from the Most High to us.
*From Eden to Egypt is a series for Life Path Ministries by Rev. Bruce Jackson that chronicles a daily study and reading of the Book of Genesis and The Genesis Record
by Henry M. Morris
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