Eve and the Creation

One sees by Genesis story that God made the simple forms of life such as the fish of the sea before He went on to the more complex forms. Then God designed Man as His masterpiece, making him in His own image. If we agree thus far in the order in which God developed His various creatures, going from the simple to the more complex or higher forms of life, does it not follow then, that Woman, being created still later, was a still more complex and advanced form of life. I guess most men, though hesitating about admitting their being more advanced, would readily concede they are more complex.

Women tend to be more spiritual, men more material and the spiritual is surely of more importance than the material.

Lest anyone read too much into this hastily, we keep in mind that God put some checks and balances on the situation. There is a degree of spirituality that is beautiful and right when a woman is treating with her own heart and life, but tends to be impractical and wrong if she should make rules controlling others. Thus the Bible shows a good woman should be more alone with God, mystical, and spiritual, but not let her tendency to pride tempt her into desiring or accepting official authority and leadership in the Church. The spiritual influence and exhortations are too priceless to dilute or lose them by her being engaged in mere leadership of organizations. In proportion as waves of emotional glory are showered upon leaders, men or women, their true spirituality declines. Paul said, repeating it several times, that he also had talent and power in the flesh that would attract men, but he would NOT use it, lest the power of God be made of LESSER account or effect.

God has made clear in the Bible, His own methods and programs of developing His plans over long periods of time, allowing the Dispensation of the Law run its course, developing and declining, before He sent His own /son to introduce the more perfect Dispensation of Love and Grace. This modus operandi is in accord with the laws of science, though not with all its mere unproved theories. However, if some points of science SEEM to be at variance, it should not at all be a source of worry to a believer. The spiritual messages of the Bible are so infinitely divine, good, holy and right, we can rest on its Word with total assurance that it is the Word of God and let some minor scientific lie bypassed.

Some believers have expressed as a problem the biblical dates when much longer time spans for man by scientific reckonings. Let us consider this-- There was probably a very long period of development of the hominids, man-like, but necessarily human. Science long ago was forced to admit that man did NOT come directly from monkeys, but developed along its own divergent line. Science has also had to admit that the gap from animal to human is almost infinite. The animal is moved by his instincts, while the man with reasoning powers, emotions, morality and free will to make decisions and choose, is almost divine. God has truly made man in His own image when He endowed them with those un-bestial attributes.

Science does not know and the Bible does not indicate just WHEN God breathed the divine endowment into the creature who may have looked much like man but previously did not have any.

Thus, I have no problem on that score. That and many other details are not known. Scientific theories come and go, accepted as science for a time and disproved later. But the Word of God is sure and certain and our Savior and Master a Rock that if firm and eternal.