DAY 5 – Compare Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2: 8-25; Genesis 5:1-2; and Galatians 3:26-28.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the main difference between male Adam and female Adam.
QUESTIONS:
- In which chapter was the concept of male and female (them) first introduced?
- Which of the two (male or female) was first revealed or seen?
- Where was the female man when the male man was formed? Where was the female man while the male man worked in the garden in verses 15-20?
- Was the male man aware of the absence of the female man? How do you know this?
- Read Genesis 5: 1-2. What are the similarities between these two verses and Genesis 1:27.
GUIDED NOTES:
There can be no discussion of male or female, man or woman AND Adam or Eve without the pair being addressed. Each pair contains two sides of one coin. They are intricately intertwined. Although they are separate entities, there is an interconnectedness and interdependence that is inescapable. One does not exist without the other.
Male and female are categories of living things that are distinguished based on their reproductive organs and structures. Male and female are distinctions primarily related to structural, functional and behavioral characteristics of organisms that are involved in reproduction. The male is the individual that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of the female. The female is the individual that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs.
When one refers to an individual as male or female, one is referring to one’s reproductive role. For the purposes of procreation on Earth, there is a need for male and female, the two distinct forms. However, for the purposes of the kingdom of heaven, there is neither male nor female because our roles and place in God’s kingdom is not predicated upon our reproductive abilities or roles on Earth. At the end of the day, we are all God’s Adam.
Read 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 and Galatians 3:26-29. What does Paul say about male and female?
Read 1 Corinthians 15: 45-49. Our goal is to be as the second Adam, to become as and bear the image of the heavenly Man.