Genesis 2

Genesis 2

Gen 2 seems a bit of a mish-mash, discussing all sorts of various things and jumping from subject to subject without regard for explanation.

So, God rests and blessing the 7th day.  How is this useful or important?  Is it simply a rule (sabbath) or does it have concrete meaning, like, less bad things happen on the Sabbath?  Either way, God apparently needs to get to the next subject, so don’t spend too much time thinking about it…

Why didn’t it rain? Gen 2:6. I find it interesting, but I suppose not very important.  Being God he can make it come from anywhere, but why UP form the ground, rather than DOWN from the sky?

One question popped into my head at Gen 2:8.  The garden of Eden was planted east of where?  God formed earth, and there is just water and land without label or reference.  What exactly is Eden east of that is of great importance?  Either way, he plops man into it, and then needs to discuss trees…

Specifically 2 special trees: the tree of Life, the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Middle if the garden.  Next subject!

I don’t want to catalog all the little things going on here, so I hope you get my point.  It’s a jumpy and disconcerting narrative.  It skips ahead, then goes back and fills in, then skips ahead again.  It’s a really crappy way to communicate a series of events.  Unless you’re Quentin Tarantino and happen to know what the hell you’re doing.

Last jump here: So God makes animals for Adam (oh, is that his name, thanks for the introductions) to give him a helper and stave off loneliness.  Why didn’t God make Adam without loneliness, or know in advance what he needed?  Hmmm, must be one of those ineffable things.  Either way, “woman” is made of “man”, from “man”, a gift for “man”, but clearly not whole or important in her own right.  Otherwise she wouldn’t have been an afterthought and an “fix” for something else that was wrong.

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