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What is Woman?
Bible question #3

Richard Eric Gunby

It seems I’m wandering in to where most men know

(almost intuitively) not to go. Hmm?

Everything I have written in Bible Questions #1&2,

apply equally to the female of the “species” as they do to
the male. Woman (the female) is just as much made in
the image and likeness of God as is man (the male). She
is just as accountable before God as the man. She was, in
the beginning, just as free as the man. However, it is so
very important to understand that the woman was not a
separate life creation. Rather, she is of the same dough,
so to speak. Woman was fashioned from something out
of Man. Therefore, Woman is of the same life principle:
man is flesh based life; woman is flesh based life. Also,
this means the ultimate common source of life for Man
and Woman, is God.
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It is at this point that I think we would best benefit by

thinking along the lines of vertical and horizontal actions.
Here is what I mean. The enlivening, the quickening, the
vitalizing (i.e., animation) of Man was a vertical action: it
was God downward to Man. God breathed the breath of
life into the Man, and Man became a living creature. The
Woman, however, is best thought of more as a horizontal
(at least in part) kind of action. Yes, God personally and
directly fashioned Woman; a primary Biblical truth! But,
he operated (good pun!) with living flesh and bone. In
other words, God did not separately breathe the breath of
life into Woman. Why? There was no need to, as both
before and once He had actually fashioned her, she was
already alive, so to speak; the life principle was already
operative, being derived from the Man. In other words,
God took living matter (flesh) to make the Woman. This
truth utterly destroys any thought of a separate creation of
a soul that is then inserted into man or woman. It is just
not there, not in-there, not happening; get over it; move
on. In creating Adam (the Man), God began with a
lifeless body, and thus had to make it become flesh (as in
an air breathing type living matter –creature). Hence the
crystal clarity and fit, if you will, of Adam’s response:
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Genesis 2:23
"This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man."

In essence, man and woman were both of the same flesh,

and both came from the one breath.

It is especially interesting, I think, that the Scripture

choose “bone” and “flesh” to represent the actual, definite
source-commonality of the Woman and Man. The use of
these two words well fits the Biblical picture. The Bible
affirms that man (as in man or woman) is an air-breathing
creature. The Bible affirms that breathing is a primary
evidence of, and is essential to, the continuance of life.
The Bible affirms that the life of the person is in the blood
(Lev. 17:11). And also, finally, the Bible affirms that to
stand erect –the ability to stand, move, and walk –these
are Biblical representations of life, and thus also to be
understood as strong evidences of life. After all, to be
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resurrected, in its most primary sense means to stand

erect again, as in get up and walk out of the grave! So,
what does all of the preceding have to do with bone and
flesh? Specifically, first, one cannot stand up without
bone; and especially a backbone! Also, it is in our bones
that blood is made; the blood that carries the oxygen
(taken from the air that we breathe) to and fro throughout
the body. And as we have already discussed, flesh is the
kind of life we have; we are flesh-based creatures. Man
and Woman are air-breathing, flesh-based, blood vital (in
a sense, our blood is our lifeline) creatures.

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Hmm? Seem to have gotten through those waters in

tack; time to leave the pool.

What is Woman? Continues in part-two