God made Adam in the image of God; male and female He made them, and He blessed them. Genesis 5:1-2. He made them on the same day. Adam lived 930 years.
We are made in the image of God; this in itself is an incredible blessing, and to top it off God then blesses us – a straight-out “I bless you and your very right to exist.” I have made you like Me; you will have great gifts of power and transformation and do marvelous things.
God formed man from the dust of the earth. He breathed upon his face the “breath of life,” and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.
The breath activates the living soul. The breath of life is only given to God’s own creation; it imbues His spirit in each of us. Giants and creatures coming from the fallen angels do not have God’s breath of life, so they are not like us, not blessed – referred to as an abomination.
1:26 – And God said, “Let Us make man according to Our image and likeness.”
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the flying creatures of heaven and over the cattle and all the earth. And God made man according to the image of God; He made them male and female. He made them, and God blessed them and said, “Increase and multiply and fill the earth…”
We are instructed to reproduce, to bear children who are blessed in the image and likeness of God too. We are to love each other, to be intimate and tender with each other, and to enjoy life together – male and female, perfectly matched and perfectly mated.
“…and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the flying creatures of heaven and over the cattle and all the earth…” Beyond this, God gives us the instruction of dominion for nourishment. We are given the animals, seeds, and every green thing for food.
God has given us a body that will find pleasure in eating and will need to be nourished and refueled to thrive.
Past the serpent event there is the curse of labor given to Adam, the curse of painful childbirth to Eve, and the curse of crawling on its belly and being at war with females for the serpent.
God has said if you eat of the tree of life you will surely die, and He meant it. Eternal life and life in the garden walking with God – this time is over. As He prepares His children, Adam and Eve, to now make their way outside the garden.
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and He clothed them. Our mind may assume He meant animal skin garments, but that is not what it says. It says God clothed them with skin. As they left the garden, skin was provided to them by a loving Father for protection.
Adam and Eve were fertile many years and gave birth to a child, Seth, when they were 500 years old.
In the time of Noah, also called Noe, the people had been corrupted by the 200 angels who had formed a covenant among themselves to mate with human women and corrupt God’s beautiful creation. They knew as they did this they were sinning against God in the most vile way. The corruption is complete and all-reaching. All of mankind, but for one, Noah, has been corrupted. At this time God says man will live 120 years. Life now is again very different.
Reviewing what has been revealed about our body in the early chapters of Genesis, we know:
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We are created in the image and likeness of God
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Our very existence is blessed
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We have, at the time of creation, the potential of immortal life
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We are given dominion over God’s creation on earth
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We are capable of having children and filling the earth
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We are given every kind of animal and plant for nourishment
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Skin is given to us as we leave the garden
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Our lives are shortened from the potential of immortal life to 120 years
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The breath of life is given to us; it awakens the immortal soul and blesses us with God’s spirit
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Upon leaving the garden we have curses: men labor for food and women experience painful childbirth
As I read both the Book of Enoch and the Book of Genesis simultaneously, it appears there has always been a spiritual battle going on. I ponder what peace would be like without evil. I wonder about our body – had no sin happened in the garden, how would our body, perhaps a body of high vibration and light, live and walk with God each day? It is a dream, who God had imagined us to be as He created us. And as I read the scripture I can also see His heartbreak over His beloved children, corrupted with imaginations focused and turned to evil at a young age. Genesis 8:21.
There are many references to the heart – God’s heart and ours. Perhaps we can delve into God’s heart for us sometime soon.