BORN TO LOVE

A reading of the creation of man from a Christian and Biblical perspective. Joshua Vargas Theologian

FACTS OF DUST AND MUD

Christians, Jews and Muslims believe that man is a special creation, that we are made by a superior being we call God, Yahweh or Allah, is a belief of our faith, a truth that is more theological than scientific, but not Reason exempt, ie blind is not an idea, we believe that we are rational beings created with a purpose.

 Now do not attempt here to write a text that defends the theory of creation vs. evolution theory, because they believe in biblical literalisms ie pretend that the Bible is the only one that explains the origin of man in a more rational than the science. Naive requirement has been the subject of discussion and scientifists condescending smiles.

 Christians and Jews have learned through the scriptures about creation, which is an affirmation of faith of a semi-nomadic tribal people of the east. (The Jewish people) to express his belief for over two thousand years about his world view.

Genesis was not written as a compendium of scientific data, but to teach a primitive people with no idea of ​​modern science, is a didactic text apt to easily teach creation. For us who use science teaching must understand that people who do not have the tools of social science to explain natural phenomena they should speak in plain language. And it is likely that our scientific knowledge in turn make smile for its simplicity to 2,000 students within a thousand years.

 When we use social science analysis that we must take into account the 'sitz in leven' written text is the context, who wrote it, their world view, not just the interpretation or impression of the reader from their own premises, as these taken out of context interpretations we make wrong conclusions.

For example when the Bible speaks of the creation of the world, what they understand by creation? Does the world of primitive man is the same as for us? Semiotics make us understand that certain words and symbols can vary in meaning in different cultures and eras. For this latest example of "the world" in our eyes is the planet Earth and all its beings and knowledge cultures, is very different for the semi-nomadic from the time of the Bronze Age, the "world" is extended to the horizon that could see, nothing else existed and did not matter.

 The Bible began as a series of oral histories that are told from generation to generation where patriarchal leaders gathered around a campfire and taught him the reality of the universe that they knew their children, and so each time repeating the stories by heart.

Today there are multiple translations, and writings of the biblical texts, the Spanish, from classic evangelical "Bear Bible" of 1569 to the review Queen and Varela current or Catholic Jerusalem Bible. (In English version of the King)

We found very good translations but the original biblical text was written in Hebrew creation or ancient Jewish language, which has no vowels like most Semitic languages. (The Bible was written in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Old Testament and the New Testament Koine Greek)

This is important to know that a translation also brings translator's ideology that "enriches" the text interpretation. When reading textual criticism using the stories of human origins are in fact two accounts of creation in Genesis thereof in chapter 1: 27 and one in Genesis 2: 4-10, are different stories in different emphases pericopes , textual critical analysis corroborates the differences.

THE INFLUENCE BABYLONIAN

This is because there is an influence on these accounts Aramaic. Genesis had two known editions ie two dates on which your information was compiled and given its final version, one in 900 BC The first edition took place during the reign of Solomon and the other the second after deportation in times of Ezra and Nehemiah in 500 BC the latter is a response to the influence of Babylonian culture in religion and way of life in Israel. The Babylonians deported the Israelites at 580 C and imposed their culture and religion, so the version of the Genesis creation was the counter of the Jews to the Babylonian creation version the famous "Epic of Gilgamesh and Enkidu" then embracing the elements of the Babylonian religion taught to Jewish children in their cultural education added it to the Hebrew version reforming it with other different ethical senses.

1. First account of human creation Genesis 1, 27

The biblical text says:

"I believe God created man in his image and likeness in the image of God created male and female think»

This first version of human creation is part of the pericope of creation where man is presented as the pinnacle of God's work, the sixth day and here where it says "created man" is a generic "humanity" the correct composition is humanity or human so the translation would be:

"I believe God to mankind in his image and likeness in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them"

God created man and woman while the man thus taking away the birthright or social hierarchy above the woman is the man and woman were equal in likeness to God, is interesting because our view of what it says Bible is very different to patriarchal and sexist, this creation gives the mandate to reproduce given the mandate to reproduce, giving great importance of sexuality in human survival.

GENESIS SECOND VERSION 2: 4

In this second story God tells how God created the world but there is no one to cultivate the land, so God sends a mist over the plants to grow, and also tells us that there is still the man to cultivate, God creates to Adam (man) of the earth (adamah). And it makes for a fulfilling purpose and meet the need of tilling the soil, so Adam is the man created by God to meet the need to care for creation, animals and country. But since the 1: 27 shows that there is a primary creation of mankind. The Hebrew word translated Hebrew Adam According to Spanish of Luis Alonso Schökel is not a proper name but it matches the meanings of: man, male, guy, human, but in this passage sets the Hebrew word ish means man and Isha female means. The biblical text says that this Adam or land creature was lonely and needy, the company needed someone such as The ... This leads us to two conclusions that the narrator seems to say.

• God gives pet animals keep him company, although this is of help for a while is not what he needs, animals, our pets are the ideal company for help or that human beings need.

. • God is superior to man because he is his creator, so the same although many aspects of life is not the ideal company or similar then we see that animals are created beings like adam, not rational, God is rational but surpass men in understanding and love so creates woman to be his help meet, equal to that, Jews were practical and generally realized that the woman is at the height of the human heart in your rib ...

If they realize the idea that the woman is born from the rib makes more sense to understand that at that time women were mostly lower than man and seemed to walk her husband hugging his head resting on the ribs near the heart of man.

Created with a purpose

It is likely that the writer of the year 500 to C allowed the two stories were one with the intention of explaining where it came from the rest of the human race with which Cain and Abel marry, only that this creation of Chapter 2 is intended to explain the birth of a special breed among humans created for work to preserve and protect the land.

Yahweh is portrayed as the creator of two human races, first a general and universal creation made in His image and likeness, made to love and reproduce Genesis 1: 27 And another creation that fulfills a purpose.

 The creation of Adam man is made by God with a purpose in there that its name comes from the earth (adamah) arable and (Eretz) common ground Genesis 2: 7 creation responds to the need expressed in verse 5 Chapter 2 someone to look after and protect her creation, speaks of the importance of this office exercised for the biblical writer.

 This second version shows the man as the first created being is better known, and more rooted in the social interpretation and even find yourself never read the Bible so think as patriarchal or sexist character.

 but interestingly the proper name given to the woman she is Eva writes in Hebrew "yewah" (ie-ua) has the same consonants as the word Hebrew name of God "yaweh" and both are forms of the verb means life, placing the woman a name associated with divinity and with the Father God.

By counterpart Adam, the man is related to the adamah (the land), the South American natives called Pachamama.

The Bible presents then originally a balance in the relationship of man and woman, a precarious balance that will turn later to the fall of man to explain in another installment.

The man and woman were made for each other, to complement, not subordinate to each other. Not to create a hierarchy of power. God saw the need for the two were one, a community, a family, the imbalance of this unit, brings unhappiness and pain. The misinterpretation of biblical texts brings churches misogyny, misogyny in society, and flogging female como0 cause of the downfall of man.

We were born to love and to be community

and St. Paul seems to say in one of his premises "The man was not made for woman, but woman for the man", so seems to imply that the woman was created to meet a need of man, this interpretation is utilitarian , and is used without reading the rest of the Pauline message ends with the conclusion that evangelical

"But in Christ Jesus neither is woman without man, nor the man without the woman because although it is true that the woman left the man is also true that all men born of women, and both of God."