Cox - The Creation of Man as Male and Female

Question 1

Is the account in Genesis 2:4b and following a Second Creation Account?

Answer 1

No it is not.

Question 2

What indicates the Gen. 2:4b is not a second creation account?

Answer 2

It Uses the characteristic Hebrew term toledot to indicate structural division. Repeating almost the statement of Genesis 1:1.

Question 3

What is the importance of the reversal of terms in Gen. 2:4b?

Answer 3

It shifts the primary focus from Heaven in Genesis 1:1 to the earth. It creates a personal and vidid account from the perspective of man. Man is the center of interest here.

Question 4

How does the name of God shift from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2?

Answer 4

In Genesis 1, the name of God is Elohim. In Genesis 2, God’s name changes to Yahweh Elohim.

Question 5

What is the significance of the shift in name?

Answer 5

Elohim portrays God’s work as material creator where as Yahweh Elohim portray’s God’s work as moral ruler.

Question 6

How did God form man?

Answer 6

By gathering dirt and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life.

Question 7

What is the Hebrew term for living being?

Answer 7

Nephesh Hiyim.

Question 8

How times does the term Eden occur in the Old Testament?

Answer 8

Thirteen Times.

Question 9

What is the term Eden indicative of?

Answer 9

A geographical location and a description of the manifest blessing of God’s presence.

Question 10

What does the use of the term Eden indicate about the state of creation?

Answer 10

It is ideal and marked with the joy and blessing of God’s creative hand.

Question 11

How does the Septuagint translate the term Eden?

Answer 11

As meaning the paradise of delight.

Question 12

What is the abbreviation used for the Septuagint?

Answer 12

LXX

Question 13

What was the purpose of Man’s work in the Garden?

Answer 13

To work it and take of it.

Question 14

Was this the same work man did post-Fall?

Answer 14

There was no curse on the ground, so it was without painful toil, thorns and thistles, and the sweat of man’s brow.

Question 15

How do we see the image of God reflect in man’s work?

Answer 15

Just as God used His creative faculties in the work of creation, we use our intellect in our daily work.

Question 16

What tree could man not partake of in the Garden?

Answer 16

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Question 17

What was the purpose of the Tree of Life?

Answer 17

A means by which man’s life could be maintained forever.

Question 18

What did Adam’s speaking the names of the animals demonstrate?

Answer 18

An aspect of the Imago Dei.

Question 19

How does naming the animals in the Garden demonstrate the Imago Dei?

Answer 19

1) God bringing animals to Adam is indicative of God’s authority over them. Likewise, Adam naming the animals is indicative of Adam’s authority over them.
2) Speech. Just as God spoke when He manifested His presence in the Garden, Adam spoke to name the animals. Speech is a capability that is like God.

Question 20

What happens after the naming of the animals?

Answer 20

God creates Eve.

Question 21

How is Eve created?

Answer 21

From a rib taken from Adam.

Question 22

In what unique relationship were Adam and Eve placed in?

Answer 22

A relationship in which the two became one flesh.

Question 23

What is the relationship between Adam and Eve analogous to?

Answer 23

The relationship and unity between Christ and the Church.

Question 24

What was not present before the Fall?

Answer 24

Shame before God. Man did not feel guilty standing in the presence of God.

Question 25

What did God’s presence in the Garden of Eden do?

Answer 25

Act as a catalyst to reflect God’s glory through the Imago Dei. (An example can be found in work.)

Question 26

What was man symbolically partaking of by eating the fruit of the trees in the Garden?

Answer 26

The presence of God,

Question 27

What happened when man choose the forbidden tree?

Answer 27

They chose an alternative life source from God’s provision.

Question 28

Who is marriage given to?

Answer 28

All Creation not just marriage after redemption.

Question 29

Who creates the marriage covenant?

Answer 29

God creates the marriage covenant not human beings. Humans can only position themselves for God to enact the agreement. (Therefore, only God has the right to define marriage.)

Question 30

How does God illustrate the perfection in the Garden?

Answer 30

Through the phrase, “and it was good.”