e? It is astonishing to think how this miracle was made. Verse 24: “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh,” is the second of my puzzling thoughts. Genesis being the first book of the entire Bible, man and woman have just been created why is there talk about a father and a mother? If man and woman were the two sole existing humans, who are each of their fathers and mothers? The only thing that came to mind when contemplating over this thought was that it is the foreshadowing of how future relationships would work and how they are expected to work.In reading this passage, it was my understanding that woman was created as an equal to man. She was his partner, “I will make him a helper as his partner” (Genesis 2: 18). I took the meaning of partner as something/someone just as important as the existence of man. When God created “every animal of the field and every bird of the air” (Gen.2: 19), He made a second form - a female form - as the partner to assist throughout the scheme of life. Creating a partner for all living things shows that God did not hold one above the other. Each partner has its own uniqueness and responsibilities; man and woman were created as equals.The J writer (Yahwist) wrote this particular passage. According to the Yahwist, the motive for creation was it was not good for the human to be alone. Since this passage was written in the tenth century before Christ, the perspective of what a woman’s place should be was influenced by the current time period. A woman’s position was one of support to her husband (The Collegeville..). Woman is intended to be one in whom man finds support and strength (The Collegeville..). This suggests that the woman also stands for the institute of marriage. The passage written later than when it actually happened, was influenced by the current time period’s ideas....
