Monday, April 22, 2013

Were Adam and Eve Married?

Yes.  In Genesis 2:22, Moses tells us, “The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.”  God created Eve and presented her to Adam.  Then in verse 24, we learn, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”  God introduced the couple.  He got them together.  He is the first Father to walk His daughter down the aisle.  (OK, there wasn't an aisle in Eden, but you get the idea.)  He then performed the first wedding.  Moses points out that because God did this with the first couple, each couple after them will be joined together in a marriage relationship, and they “become one flesh.”

Think this is a stretch?  Then why does Jesus also make the same connection in Matthew 19 (see also Mark 10) in the context of marriage and divorce?  All marriages since have been based on that first wedding.
In Ephesians 5:31, Paul quotes the Genesis text also, using marriage as a fitting picture to describe the intimate relationship between Christ and the church. 

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