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      • Once others were born, people could reflect God’s image to one another, thus glorifying God. But that isn’t the full picture. The more complete answer is, the man and woman were to reflect God’s image to the angelic hosts, both good and evil.
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  2. Jan 18, 2024 · In Genesis 2:7 NKJV we read: 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. However God's method changes when He decides to create woman: Genesis 2:21-23 NKJV.

  3. Feb 22, 2024 · “Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be calledwoman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

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  4. Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. In Genesis 1:26 recounts God’s stated intention to create humanity. In Genesis 1:27, He accomplishes it and tells the reader that He made man (Hebrew, adam) in His own image and likeness, but the narrative adds that He also created man as male and female.

  5. The word אתם, which indicates that God created the man and woman as two human beings, completely overthrows the idea that man was at first androgynous (cf. Genesis 2:18.). By the blessing in Genesis 1:28 , God not only confers upon man the power to multiply and fill the earth, as upon the beasts in Genesis 1:22 , but also gives him dominion ...

  6. Nov 21, 2022 · The OP's question is best answered with reference to the earlier narrative concerning the creation of woman in Gen. 1 - namely that God created humans as both male and female, in God's own image. So, God created both man and woman and blessed them to be fruitful and multiply.

  7. There are a series of sharp and important contrasts between the man and his companion, the woman, in Genesis 2: First, and perhaps most obvious, the man is created before the woman (cf. 1 Corinthians 11:7–9 and 1 Timothy 2:13). Second, the man alone can stand for humanity as a whole.

  8. While the man was sleeping, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 Then the Lord God formed a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man. He brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be named woman.

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