CHAPTER 9: The Mystery of Sex
This section deals with any area that is still not well understood. Your comments would be particularly helpful at this time (mid August 2001).
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Here is a Question from my Internet Forum last year: "In the beginning God created Adam... by himself. (In our image and likeness?) And then decided it would be better if he had a companion. But notice he didn't just create a new being, he separated a part of Adam and from it he made something slightly different. Or perhaps it was just the "parts" that he separated that made it different. Just a thought, but where might he have gotten that idea? Like maybe he did that with himself?"
Let me try to answer this question by following a logical path from my initial theory.
- I say that God must be all alone in His universe. As a minimum, there had to be a time when He was all alone there.
- So, whatever components He consisted of, they would all be inherent in Him.
- I say that He can think, so He automatically has the three Persons we call the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Does He have both components of Male and Female as well? I would have to say yes. I can see where each human sex has components of the other (Even though men may be from Mars and women from Venus).
- I see that sex is not required for the lowest/simplest forms of life to procreate (see chapter 4f). Perhaps this is the design God employed with the angels as well?
- Therefore, God must have created the different human sexes for other reasons. What could they be? I don't think the Bible sheds much light on this. I can suggest something, that doesn't conflict with the rest of my theory, but it's just my suggestion:
o The Bible indicates via Jesus' own statements that there is no marriage or giving in marriage in heaven (Matt 24:30). I suppose that would imply either that God creates more angels by His direct thoughts, or that each angel can individually procreate as do our simple cells.
o Either way there is less of an inter-relationship among angels involved than there would be if they had to mate to reproduce.
o What if God was using this Sin Drama demo to not only educate the pre-existing angels about free will and death, but also to begin constructing a new form of life that could procreate itself only in pairs?
o This could have been something that He was planning on doing anyway (He has a lot of time to think up many such new ideas), or perhaps it was something He felt would really help to make His other points.
o My other thought is that God was using the relationship between male and female as an analogy to His own relationship with the human race. In His Word, He clearly refers to Himself as the Bridegroom and to His Church (ie those who will one day be with Him in paradise) as the Bride.
o How could "Sex" start on its own, without the direct intervention of a intelligent being? I'm sure Dr Margulis (chapter 4f) has some interesting thoughts on this. Perhaps the bodies that the bacteria build can come in exactly two varieties, neither of which any longer has all it will take to reproduce. [This possibility is really only at the stage of a vaguely supported hypothesis. We see some evidence of some stages floating around currently, but we have to have enormous faith that everything can hang together against all odds, without some supreme intelligence behind it. If that intelligence is behind it all, then the enormous time scale is not required.]
o If indeed this human universe was modeled after the angel universe, then I can see where Eden was like the angel worlds before sin arose. I suppose I can also see where our single cell reproduction design could have been modeled after the angels.
o It's curious that He has both forms of reproduction represented on our planet. He started out with Male and Female in Genesis 1. Later He creates Adam alone as the test subject. Then He decided that it was not good for the Adam to be alone in this, so He develops a helper for him.
o He had already created two sexes among the animals, so it was not unique to Mankind. Sexual reproduction opens up the species to a greater variety of offspring from a larger genetic pool. It would then enable better adaptation to a changing environment. More varieties would survive the loses due to natural selection.
o Still I can only theorize about God's motives with sex, but I think it was unique to this Earth, with its animals and its humans. I can only suggest that it set up the demo in a way that enabled the human race to multiply and to inherit the Earth in pairs. If my theory is to hold up, then this new aspect of the demo must not detract from the ability of the angels to relate to what happens here.
o God nevertheless has a personality, so it makes sense to me that He inherently understands the differences between male and female, as well as He understands the differences between good and evil.
o Another point: Regardless of which form of life proved to be superior in the long run, I doubt that God would have both in the same universe for all eternity. Angelic beings are superior to humans because they have more dimensions. Glorified humans may receive those additional dimensions on the Last Day, but will they retain their unique ability to procreate in pairs? If we did then the angelic beings would also need to receive this gift, in my opinion. I don't see the angels as being inferior to us and still living in our new universe. Could this be one of the things God intends to do when He makes all things new?
26 July 2001
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