When the narrative of Genesis becomes a tool for putting law on the same reflection platform as grace, we see how unreasonable Bible interpretation has become.   How quickly people can step outside the circle of love to despise their neighbours’ food, to judge and condemn the very things of which they are guilty! It does not matter which part of the Mosaic law one holds up as Christian value there is impoverishment and juvenile emptiness in the outcomes. As surely as humankind would not proceed without a female component so the love of God could not proceed without the sending of the Saviour.

No eternal life rises from God’s creation

The meditation on creation slips quickly into unprofitable comparisons to Adam and Eve. The elephant in the room is the thin line between pride in one’s capacity to pass where Adam failed and agreement with God that a flaming sword blocks the way to immortality. This is especially true when one commits to hundreds of commands from God compared to the single prohibition Adam had to deal with.

Who wants a do-over of creation?

God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

(Genesis 1:31, NASB)

Creation is a starting point. The conditions are not going be duplicated. The outcomes of creation are pretty devastating. The evaluation goes quickly downhill from very good, to not good, to expulsion from Eden, to destruction by a flood.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

Genesis 2:18, NASB