The Attribute of Creation

Before we move off of the creation of the marriage relationship by God, we should look at one more verse in Genesis 3.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. (Gen. 3:20)

In this verse we read that it is Eve that holds the attribute of creation within the Oneness of marriage. Nowhere in the Bible does it say something similar for man. In fact, man is completely excluded from the birth of Christ! This is something that a man had no part in; it was God and the woman. We even see God speaking of this attribute of Creation in the woman when he pronounces the punishment on both the serpent and the woman:

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children." (Gen. 3:15-16)

Although man has a part in the creation process, we see that God has associated the miracle of creation through child birth in the woman. This attribute of creation association with the woman is so important that we read:

For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. (1Tim. 2:13-15)

If we remember that the creation of man and the creation of marriage was to be the image of God and the relationship within the Trinity, we see that this attribute of creation is mirroring the attribute of creation in Christ or the Son within the Trinity:

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. (Col. 1:13-16)

God has placed different attributes within both men and women which become evident within the marriage relationship. We have a greater understanding of God and the Trinity through ourselves and our marriage relationship because of the attributes of God that He has placed within each of us. Each of these attributes point to Him and we must remember this.
Husbands, remember that the creation attribute is a gift given to your wife and an attribute that reflects rgw oneness within the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). It is something that should be reverenced, for it is a gift from God from which we have insight into the awesome God of creation.
Note:
To couples that do not have children or can’t; the attribute of creation through child bearing is a potential that God has put in all of women. It is knowledge of the fact that as a husband and wife we have the potential to create through child bearing. If we physically can’t have children for some medical reason, we still have the knowledge and will that comes from this creation attribute from God; it still has the power to give us an insight into God. By the way, even within medical issues, I still believe in miracles.

The Fall

In my previous blog entry we saw what God had intended for a man and a woman within a marriage before the fall. Let’s now take a look at the consequences of the fall and its impact on the relationship within a marriage.  Let start with the women.  If we fast forward to the New Testament we find the following:

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. (Eph. 5:22-24)

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. (Col. 3:18)

Most women are probably asking, “Why do I have to submit?” The answer to this is because she didn’t submit to the truth of God’s word which was, 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 of it you will surely die (Gen. 2:17). Eve was probably told this truth by either God or Adam or maybe both, but she chose to ignore it and ate of the fruit. So now wives must submit to their husbands because Eve failed to.
Now let's look at the man:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. (Eph. 5:24-30)

Now let’s see how these verses refer back to Genesis. At the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam was there with Eve when she fell.  He should have been her savior. Where was the love when Adam watched and listened to the temptation of Eve and her eventual fall?  He knew what would happen! So because Adam did not love and stand up for Eve and save her from her fall, he is now commanded to do both; he is to love her and be her savior when she needs saving. Even if she doesn’t submit and falls, he is still to be there to pick her up and love her, for this is what a savior does. If a person is about to fall into a river with a fast current you can save them before they fall in, but you can also save them if they have fallen into the river. So husbands love your wives and be ready to save them before and after they fall.