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Open your Bibles to Genesis 1, verses 26-28. Now, some
people get kind of confused by the timeframes in the first
couple chapters of Genesis. If modern Western people were
writing the Bible, we’d write a simple, chronological
account, with Genesis 1 flowing directly into Genesis 2. But
the Bible was not written by modern, Western people, and
whoever put together the book of Genesis included two
creation accounts: the large scale, cosmic one we read in
Genesis 1, and the more focused account about the Garden
of Eden that starts in Genesis 2, verse 4.
The reason I mention this is because it is really, really
important to understand that all of humankind, both male
and female, are included in the mandate God gives in
Genesis 1. It’s not like God created Adam, told him to rule
over creation, and decided he needed a junior secretary to
wash his socks while he was busy establishing dominion.Share
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