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C ONCL USION

I’ve been thinking about the creation story as it relates to God’s original design of family and
community.

God first created Adam without Eve. We know from the Genesis account that Adam was lonely and
this was not good in the eyes of God.

So we know that God left something out in this first stanza of creation.

Have you ever asked why? Why did God give the animals mates, but not Adam?

Why wasn’t Eve created on the same day, in the same hour, as Adam?

It makes me wonder: Did God want Adam to go without physical community for a time so that he
would never take it for granted when he got it? Maybe God wanted to teach Adam a life lesson about
the need for others. For family. For warmth. For intimacy. For the sound of laughter. For the feel of a
clasped hand.

Real. Human. Interaction.

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