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The Man In Love
dominion over all the creatures of the earth and to be fruitful in it. He allowed man to multiply himself upon the earth. At a point He looked at man and decided to create woman so that he would not be alone. He viewed that man needed to have someone to help him and promptly created a helper that suited man perfectly with Adam calling her Woman! He made complete provision for man upon the earth and also made no provision for man to suffer in any way. This is love in demonstration.
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” ......... And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 2:18, 21-24
Unfortunately, Adam could not reciprocate the love that God had shown him in that he disobeyed His command. He ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil contrary to God’s command in Genesis 2:17. God was prompt to enforce
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