Because God chose to create us in his image, Genesis 1:26-27, he needed both the male and female to fully reflect his capacity for love and creativity and unity.

The only time in creation God declared something not good Genesis 2:18, “it is not good for man to be alone.” He was incomplete and could not in his masculine flesh represent the fullness of God.

God had “formed” Adam out of the earth, Genesis 2:8 but he “fashioned” Eve by taking a bone out of Adam.

Gentlemen when you look and see that fashioned women of yours, remember, it ain’t easy or cheap to keep that up.

It may cost you a body part :D

Now we have this perfectly unified pair.

They are set loose in a perfect environment and commanded to “Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it.

Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” Genesis 1:28-29

But the broken down play by play in Genesis 2:8 God first put Adam alone in the garden and Adam alone got the command verse 16 “you are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

After this very sobering command God introduces Eve, the suitable helper.

Eve did not receive the command at the same time Adam did. I would imagine it was discussed in the walks in the cool of the day with God.

But, some how Eve started to misquote and rewrite the command.

By the time the serpent entered the scene Eve had already thought very much about the tree.

Genesis 3:2 “The women said to the serpent, “We may eat from the trees of the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it or you will die.’””

You see, Eve had already wandered too many times around the tree. It had become the center of her attention.

No where else is the tree referred to in the “center of the garden.” Then Eve adds to the commandment, “or touch it.”

Sorry sister that one is one you. But where is Adam during this exchange?

Verse 6b “she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”

God’s original intent for this couple was that they work, play and be fruitful and multiply, add to what God had started, Neither the woman, Adam, or the serpent were blameless and we are all still living the curse today.

Let’s get back what was stolen, a Honeymoon Life that honors and walks daily with God.