Oneness and the Creation, Part Two

Last time we discovered that God created all the animals to find a suitable companion for Adam. But because no companion could be found among the animal kingdom, God's passion for oneness inspired the creation of Eve.

“So God took a rib from Adam while he slept and made Eve.”

God makes Eve from Adam’s rib. She is born from his own flesh. She is born of God’s oneness with Adam...alive and vibrant because of their partnership. This is a point to consider…does a wife have more spiritual life as her husband has more oneness with God?

Now coming from him she is destined to be one with him; from his side, and by his side. Adam seems to understand this when he offers the first recorded piece of romantic poetry, “You are bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”

And in Genesis 2, Moses, the author of Genesis gives interesting insight into what we might call the progression of oneness. We are born out of the oneness of our parents and as we grow we enjoy a meaningful level of oneness with them. But God has planned for the human race to experience an even greater level of oneness with another, a “suitable companion” just as Adam did. In Genesis 2:24-25 we see the ultimate expression of intimacy and oneness.

“Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked but they felt no shame.”

One should leave their parents because the level of oneness you achieve with them could never equal the oneness available with the suitable companion God has for you. Being ‘bone of your bones and flesh of your flesh’ the suitable companion is the perfect person with whom you can become one. Clearly, the purpose of marriage is not children, sex, or lower taxes, but oneness. And every aspect of marriage is made more wonderful by the level of intimacy and oneness of the couple.

This is the oneness of the creation walking hand in hand with God and with each other…a beautiful triangle of intimacy. Unfortunately that oneness is shattered in Genesis 3 by the introduction of anti-oneness: sin. Next time we will look at Oneness and The Fall.