In the beginning…11f. Earth Overlook: Day Six

Just then Adam seemed to be about to say his first words since naming the last animal and then uttering his amazed exclamation at the sight of the female. The crowd strained to hear.

“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;” he began, gazing adoringly into the eyes of the female whom God had brought to him, “she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Adam then put his arms around the woman and gave her a gentle hug and she became his wife. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. They weren’t cold, either. None of the heavenly host took any notice except Lucifer.

“Vanity and shame,” he uttered under his breath.

“What was that, Chief?” Anak asked. “Did you say something?”

“Later, Anak, tomorrow,” Lucifer replied. “Just wait until tomorrow.”

Regaining the attentiveness of the angels, God spoke once more, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”

“What are a ‘father and mother’? I understand ‘father,’ but what is a ‘mother’?” Gabriel tried to whisper only to Jesus but many heard. They waited for the Son’s answer.

“Men and women will marry and become husband and wife,” Jesus explained to all nearby. “Then they will reproduce young – have children. From that time on they will be mother and father to those children. The female will be the mother and have most of the responsibilities of actually rearing their offspring. The children will begin life as tiny babies and grow up with nurturing from their mothers and fathers. Most of the animals will go through the same kind of process, they just won’t think about it, anticipate it, or usually even know they are doing it. It will come naturally for them. Man will have to make a conscious effort and work hard for all this to happen as it should.”

“Jesus, I know we angels were all created directly by the Father,” Gabriel suggested.

“Sort of just like God made the animals and then Adam and the woman, right?” Michael interjected.

“Seems simple, yet complicated,” Gabriel commented.

“You’re right on both counts, Gabe,” Jesus agreed.

“But that’s not how you came to be, was it, Jesus? “Gabriel continued.

“No, it wasn’t, Gabe,” Jesus replied. “God was truly my ‘father’ and in a sense the Holy Spirit was my ‘mother.’ God united with his Spirit to ‘give birth’ to me. That’s why he sometimes refers to me as his ‘son.’”

“His ‘only begotten son’; isn’t that right, Jesus?” Michael added.

“Right you are, Michael,” Jesus explained. “My Father loves all his creation; but he and I do have a very close bond. As man will someday state, ‘Blood is thicker than water.”

“What’s blood?” Allen inquired; he had been silent for a while; but now he rejoined the inquisition.

“Blood is what fills man’s body and sustains his life. When a man and woman give birth to a baby boy or girl – that’s what they will call young men and women – they become ‘blood kin.’ That bond will make them closer as family to each other than the attraction they will have with any other men or women,” Jesus stated.

“Until they leave their mother and father and become one with a mate as husband and wife. That’s what God said. Isn’t that right, Jesus?” Gabriel inquired.

“That’s right. Then they will become one flesh and be able to begat their own children,” Jesus concluded.

Then looking toward his Father who had rejoined them at the overlook, making eye-contact, and smiling as he nodded toward creation, Jesus stated, “It’s good, isn’t it, Father?”

The reply came quickly, “Yes, Son; it’s good…it’s very good.”

And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.

[to be continued]