Creation of Adam and Eve: God's Design for Humanity

                                   

Creation of Adam and Eve is a mixed media piece I created from the inspiration of Genesis 1-2.  The highlighted verse in this piece is Genesis 1:26: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."  The words above Adam and Eve read "Imago Dei" - the Latin translation of "image of God." Imago Dei embodies the theological truth that humans are set apart from the rest of creation in that they alone are uniquely created to bear the image of God. Scholars throughout the ages have studied the various, distinct ways in which humans reflect God's image and have found evidence of relational, functional and substantive traits.

There are several parts of the Genesis account present in this piece; God forming man from dust and breathing into him the breath of life, the creation of Eve out of Adam's rib, the unique biological DNA of male and female, and Adam and Eve gazing upon the new world God created.

"And the LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7

 

 "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 the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man."   And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Genesis 2:21-23

In the Genesis account, we have the glorious creation of Adam and Eve - complimentary counterparts whose binarity provides the foundation and framework for human relations. In Genesis 2, God establishes his design for marriage in providing the historical account of the first marriage union. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Genesis 2:24

Creation of Adam and Eve, 2025, mixed media

   

* Scripture taken from the King James, 1611