Genesis 2:4-25
Key verse 2:8 “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.”
1. What can we learn about man’s source of life and value from the way God created man? (7) What does it mean to be a living being?
2. What does God’s provision in verses 8-9 suggest about man’s nature and needs? What do you think is God’s purpose in giving man work to do in the garden? (15)
3. How do God’s commands establish spiritual order, and paradoxically give us real freedom? (16-17)
4. What is special about the creation of woman, and what does it mean that woman is “a suitable helper”? (18-22)? How did Adam receive her? (23)
5. How did God confirm and establish the family? What commitment must man make to his wife? What does it mean that they become one flesh? (See Mark 10:6-9)