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Do Adam and Eve in Eden symbolize God and Christ in Heaven?

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Genesis 2:18, 2:21-24 NIV > YHWH God said, “**It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a > helper suitable for him.**" > > So YHWH God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he > was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the > place with flesh. Then **YHWH God made a woman from the rib he had > taken out of the man**, and he brought her to the man. > > The man said, > > “**This is now bone of my bones > and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ > for she was taken out of man.**” > > That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his > wife, **and they become one flesh.** I'm told that everything on earth is a symbolic shadow or type of the things in heaven, that it was not good for God to be alone as it was not good for man to be alone. That Adam being set up as the caretaker and guardian of Eden represents God, who is the caretaker and guardian of heaven. That Eve being brought forth out of Adam to be his helper represents Christ, who was brought forth out of God to be his helper. I'm told that in Proverbs 8, the Son is poetically described as Lady Wisdom, the consort of God. As God's wife, he is described as being created by God as the first of his works in Proverbs 8:22, being "brought forth" from God in Proverbs 8:25, and the "master workman" as the helper of God in Proverbs 8:30, resonating with Christ being the one "through whom" God made all things. That Eve is the consort of Adam, his wife, who was created and brought forth from Adam as his "helper". In like manner, Christ was brought forth from God as his consort Wisdom as the Logos. And that as Adam goes into Eve to produce fleshly offspring (sons of men), so God goes into Christ to produce spiritual offspring (sons of God). As Eve came from Adam as "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh", so Christ was from God and a spiritual body from a spiritual body, that Christ was fashioned from the very spiritual flesh and bones of God, for he was taken out of God as Light from the Light. So my question is, do Adam and Eve symbolize God and Christ?
Asked by OneGodOneLord (217 rep)
Feb 5, 2025, 03:22 AM
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