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Reasons God Asked To Create Eve Research Paper

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In this essay, I will argue that God waited to create Eve for two reasons: First, God wanted Adam to experience how it was to be alone, but that God had a plan for him. Secondly, God wanted Adam to love Him completely before loving anyone else. Evidence for these two points is found in Genesis 2 and 3. On the sixth day, God created humans in His image. However, not many people notice that Eve was not created at the same time as Adam or even immediately after him. God waited to create her and in this essay, I will expand on the 2 possibilities that I believe are the reasons why He waited. My first point of why God waited to create Eve was so that Adam would experience how it was to be alone and that it was not good. The Bible quotes, “And …show more content…

Similarly to today, we feel at times that something is missing, however we’re not sure what it may be which is similar to what Adam felt. The verse states that a helper for Adam was not found. When the word “found” is used, it implies that someone was “looking”. God was not looking because He knew what His plans were. The one I believe was looking was Adam. Later that day, God creates Eve when Adam goes to sleep: “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Genesis 2:21-22). God never intended for man to be alone. His plan was always to create …show more content…

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Genesis 2:7, 8). In order to develop a close, personal relationship with God is to spend time alone with Him and Adam had that opportunity since he and God were the only ones existing together at that time. Adam was given the authority over the animals and had close communication with God. This made him the “man of the household” but ultimately, the messenger of God to take care of his family. Adam needed to be without Eve to learn to become accountable to only God. God had assigned Adam the first “job” of the world that was to name all the animals and the first instruction to guide the present humanity (being one at that time). A relationship between God and Adam began to

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