Monday, August 3, 2009

Marriage, in the Beginning

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”
(Gen 1:1).
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground'" (Gen 1:26).
“So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them”
(Gen 1:27).
“God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it'”
(Gen 1:28).
“The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”
(Gen 2:7).
“The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to alone, I will make a helper suitable for him'”
(Gen 2:18).
“So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.” "Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man" (Gen 2:21-22).
"The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman," for she was taken out of man'" (Gen 2:23).
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh”(Gen 2:24).
"The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame" (Gen 2:25).