Was Adam Created from Clay? (What About Eve?), part 2 of 2

The design that went into the human body is a miracle beyond miracles when you consider how everything is integrated together, yet each organ and system working its own individual miracles. And the deeper one gets into the body’s functioning (via microscope), the more miraculous it becomes.

I must admit that given the complexity of the human body, I have a hard time with the one-puff-of-air theory of creation from a sculpture of dirt or clay. The only choice I have is to consider that this one sentence verse is symbolic in nature.

I will briefly discuss the creation of Eve. It is different and equally mystifying.

“And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. . . . And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Genesis 2:18,21-22).

I’m not a geneticist, so I don’t know what it would take to covert a male rib bone into a full-blown female, complete with all of the above systems of Adam—minus some male-only items and including some female-only items.

I could imagine God taking Adam back to his laboratory and performing surgery on him to remove his rib. He would have to do some major tinkering with the DNA and ‘x’ and ‘y’ chromosomes in every cell.

Whatever he did, it had to have been a very complicated procedure.

I could imagine he could take one cell from the bone and do all the aforementioned tinkering, then afterward grow her up. But that would take some time, I would think. But then, we don’t know how long Adam was out.

If God grew Eve from a single cell of Adam’s rib, why couldn’t he have just taken a skin cell? All the ingredients are there as well as in a rib bone. If we mere mortals know this, surely God did. Why then did he need to extract an entire bone? I can only draw one conclusion: The creation of Eve was also symbolic in nature. What do you think?

On the other hand, if God had simply cloned the bone, he would have gotten another Adam.

I personally do not believe God works in this way, except figuratively. Adam was created in the image and likeness of God, our heavenly Father. I believe Eve was created in the image and likeness of our heavenly Mother. (See Is There a Mother in Heaven (Part 1 of 10))

Some might point to Ezekiel’s experience in the Valley of Bones (see Ezekiel 37:1-10) to show how God can do some pretty amazing creations. Possibly, but let’s look a little bit closer.

Ezekiel saw the apparent resurrection of a vast field of bones into a huge army, watching bones, sinews, muscles, etc., and finally skin come together. Nevertheless, in verse 11 God says the bones are “the whole house of Israel.”

Reading on, we discover the entire sequence is analogous to Israel’s return to their fabled Jerusalem, comparing it to a resurrection. There was no real resurrection, as Jesus was the first fruits of them that slept (see 1 Corinthians 15:20).

Even if it were a vision of a real resurrection, the bones became the person who originally laid them down, not into someone else, let alone someone else of the opposite sex.

So, if these two creations were literal, with a whole lot of details left out, or figurative, we can only speculate. But I choose to speculate they are figurative. How do you speculate?