Why Did God Make Eve from Part of Adam?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In creation, God made Adam and all the animals from the ground. So why, when God made Eve, did he take a rib from Adam’s side?

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0:00.0	Well, why did God need part of Adam to make Eve when he made Adam from the dust?
0:11.0	It's a Bible question from a female listener to the podcast.
0:14.5	We don't have her name, but we have her question.
0:16.8	Hello, Pastor John.
0:17.8	I was just wondering why God chose to do surgery on Adam to remove one of his ribs to craft
0:22.4	Eve.
0:23.4	When as God, he could have just made Eve entirely from dust in the same way he made Adam.
0:28.8	I am very intrigued by this fact in Genesis and wonder if you have any thoughts to explain
0:33.4	why it was done this way and if it carries any particular meaning that he did it in such
0:38.3	a way.
0:39.3	Thank you.
0:40.3	Well, it is intriguing.
0:43.1	And there are things to see in the text that we might miss that would make it even
0:49.6	more intriguing if we didn't read more slowly.
0:53.7	So let's read the passage that she's referring to.
0:58.5	And then I'll point out some maybe surprising conclusions.
1:03.8	Then the Lord God said, let's say I'm reading in Genesis 2 verse 18 to 25, then the Lord
1:11.7	God said, it is not good that man should be alone.
1:19.4	So God is going to finish his creation so as to make it completely good.
1:27.4	That's the setup at the beginning of the paragraph.
1:29.7	I'm going to make this completely good is not yet finished.
1:33.8	I will make him a helper fit for him.
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