The Process Of Forming The Woman Series

Man and woman were both created in God’s image. Just as man was formed from earth, woman was formed from man. She corresponds perfectly to the man, the same flesh and blood, and in “the image of God” just as the man, equal to him in every way. By the creative act itself, she is inseparably linked to the man. The unity of the race is assured (Gen. 1:27, 28); the woman’s dignity and worth is affirmed (Gen. 2:22); the foundation for Christian marriage is set forth in a memorable way— “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2.24).

The woman was not an afterthought. The man was designed and created physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually with her coming creation planned and assured. In fact, God said that the man “alone” was not good; he needed the woman (v. 2.18). God made man from “the dust of the ground,” but He made the woman from “the rib” of the man.

God “brought her unto the man.” God performed the first marriage; He sanctified and blessed the first home and the first family. Jesus interpreted this event in Matthew 19:6: “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Believe me, Eve was beautiful. Any woman today who is beautiful inherited it originally from mother Eve. There is no beauty that she did not have. She was a doll, let me tell you! And she was the other half of Adam.

23 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.

And Adam said,

When God brought the woman to Adam, the man 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.”

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:

Marriage is honorable, but this must have been the most honourable marriage that there ever was, because God had a hand in it all along. Marriages (they say) are made in heaven: this one in particular surely was, for the reason that the man and the woman were brought together by God; He made them both, and now, by decree, He made them one. This was a marriage made in perfect innocence, a situation that could never be repeated. God, as her Father, brought the woman to the man; she is his second self, and a help-meet. After He had made her, He did not leave her to find her own way; she was His child, and she must not marry without His consent. Probably it was revealed to Adam in a vision, while he was asleep, that this lovely creature that is now presented to him, was a piece of him, and was to be his companion and wife. Adam received her from God, who was also his Father, and then he said “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; now I have what I wanted, a help meet for me, which is something I could not find among God’s creatures.’’ God’s gifts to us should be received with a humble thankful acknowledgment of his act of kindness in bestowing them on us.

This is the Hebrew expression that is commonly employed to indicate family kinship—“And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him for a month” (Gen 29:14; NKJV). The meaning is: formed from the same parents, or from the same family. The bones and the flesh have the same source. This is a metaphor, except in the case of Adam, because the first man could use this phrase in the full sense of the words, including their literal connotation, since the woman was actually bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh!