Torah Tuesday - Genesis

[@akd289]

I wish i could like this a thousand times! ❤

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lifegrip]

Great stuff. Love to hear about the original language words and how they’re used and the play on words too. Thanks again Carmen. Another wonderful lesson.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

My pleasure!

[@anthonypaul3918]

Great teaching Carmen, the body needs more teaching like this to set things back in order. To many people trying to lord over and dominate other image bearers. Thanks

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Amen to that!

[@wendycolglazier381]

You pack so much information in just a few minutes! The Hawai'ians consider 'aloha', the 'ha' to be the divine breath. In sharing aloha, we share God's divine breath with each other.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Interesting!

[@janross8831]

Great teaching!!! And, you're right about liking this week's teaching about subservient women. We all have so much work to do to conform to God's purpose for humankind!! We get so distracted with "who" does what (men vs women) when we should be focused on the "what" that needs to be done by all! There's a lost world that needs to hear the Gospel message and we're all equally commissioned to bear the image of our Creator and go and tell! This is good stuff, Carmen! Thank you! :))

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thank you, Jan!

[@elsanto8505]

Thanks for sharing great books. It is good to know that there are books to help us find balance between men and women's work in the church. God bless you for your unique video mini-teachings.

[@chaynaemslie3957]

This was awesome.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@barbaraschlunegger3425]

amazing, thank you sooo much for your work!!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

My pleasure!

[@barbaraschlunegger3425]

I studied reformed Theology in Switzerland :)) @@CarmenJoyImesPhD

[@SimmerdownTX]

Thank you, Dr. Imes.

[@mariag4538]

This is so interesting! Once again, I am grateful for your knowledge and wisdom.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@emilylaw1494]

Great teaching and it aligns with what Tim Mackie says in the Bible Project podcast. Thanks!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@storyofscripture]

Amen, we got enough problems, we need all the help we can get!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

I should hasten to add that Eve didn't do a great job "helping" Adam obey God's command, did she? They both failed to exercise the partnership in obedience for which they were intended.

[@hyeryoungoh8319]

Amazing, Carmen! May the Lord continue to bless you and use you in a mighty way!♥

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks, friend!

[@LEM317]

I can't wait to talk to you more about this! What great insight! That was so encouraging!

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

So glad you were encouraged, Lauren!

[@brianpollock7700]

Another great Torah Tuesday, Carmen!

[@lorrainehughes3922]

Thank you!

[@edwright3935]

looking forward to your Image of God book

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks!

[@marcusdumitru]

You know, in English and around the globe, the "help" is a maid who cleans the house. So the inferior cultural connotation is understandable, but you cleared it! I heard before the idea that Eve was a suitable help in some kind of military sense, but I never understood the connection until this explanation of yours of the usage of Ezer in the OT. The power position of the Ezer was never in my view until now. The "side" by "side" idea (pun intended) is better covered in the church though. Great! Thanks. I know there should be another word play in Gen 2:7 with the blowing and nostrils and living creature. Do you tackle that somewhere else?

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks for your comment, Marcus! No, I didn't talk about that word play. Good idea!

[@blakewidmer]

So thankful for your teaching, I’m learning so much! Have you read Beth Allison Barr’s book “making of biblical womanhood”? Thoughts on it? I’ve pre-ordered it and look forward to reading it. I’ll check out the one you mentioned today too :)

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Not yet, but I've heard great things about it!

[@Tswanabynature]

What Torah are you reading from please kindly. I love this, G_d bless you.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

I usually read from the NIV for teaching, but sometimes I include my own translation from the Hebrew.

[@AndreRosario-zm8pf]

🙏🙏🙏🌎 Amen

[@dinaolsen3417]

What are your thoughts on the work of joy Fleming and theTru316 Foundation on Genesis 2 and 3?

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

The Flemings sent me her books, but I have not had a chance to read them yet. I hope to someday! I was on their podcast recently and I suspect we're on the same page.

[@nigelmorrisdrums2793]

Hi Carmen, pretty sure I heard John Walton State that the word. " from" isn't in the Hebrew. Dust of the ground being a statement of mortality! Thoughts please

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

The word "from" is there, but "out of" is not. "So YHWH God formed a man -- dust from the ground..." And yes, the implication is that he is mortal (Gen 3:19), at least after his rebellion. Before they rebel, the point could be that he shares an essential connection with the earth as a created thing.

[@nigelmorrisdrums2793]

Ah yes! Thank you so much!

[@qcbtbx]

🔥🔥🔥

[@steveandlorithomas]

Hi, Carmen - Do you think our translations should replace 'helper' with something better that departs from the historical reading and better emphasizes the dignity and importance of the woman? If so, what would you suggest?

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Yes! I don't know why we don't translate it "ally" as in most of the other occurrences of the word. Or "partner" if that's too military for this context.

[@steveandlorithomas]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD Thanks! Ally is very cool.

[@let-there-be-light]

Man's heart is on earth (move the letter 'h' to the front) to build a house (his accomplishment) but God give him his superior ally to make it a home ( her fulfillment). On the same place, his focus is a house, hers a home. Tension arise when man fails to see it for her with her.

[@flematicoreformandose5046]

Reddish is the exact hebrew translation in all lenguages translation of Adam, The red color is the result of the mixture of ground with water, that is to say; the elements of the ground such as iron, calcium, potassium etc, with water H2o (hydrogen and oxygen). The reddish color is characteristic of mud or clay. That is why the best translation is not ground but clay or clay.

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Yes, it seems to me that "soil" or "clay" or "dirt" would be a better translation than "ground."

[@flematicoreformandose5046]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD mud, mire, clay, these definitions have red colour and the mixture of soil and water.

[@flematicoreformandose5046]

That is why Noah's contemporaries surely laughed when he announced that water would fall from the skies. Since there was no rain but dew. Oral transmission would do its job from parent to child.

[@danielpech6521]

As I see in my copy of the Amplified Bible, you implicitly point out that Genesis 2:5-6 is parenthetical to vs. 4-7. But you state that Adam was 'lonely', as if the 'is not good' of v. 18 is to be taken as the single crucial term of that verse. Have you considered that there might be, in that verse, a qualifier to this term? I shall explain to you why I think there is, and what that qualifier is, and why I think Adam did not feel lonely at all. First, the qualifier: 'remain' ...as in, "It is not good that Adam should remain alone." Second, the reason I think Adam did not feel lonely is because he was feeling a great deal of pleasant anticipation toward the conditions and time in which he was well-aware that God would provide him a mate-friend-coworker-counterpart. Third, now for the reason why I think Adam was well-aware of the conditions and time in which he knew that God would provide him a mate-friend-coworker-counterpart. The shortest answer to this third issue is that Adam saw the kind of design that God had made in the whole Creation: 1. the general cosmos and the special Earth. 2. The Earth, as its own general subject, implying that which we all intuit is most valuable about the Earth unto itself in all the cosmos: its abiding maximal abundance of open liquid water. 3. that water and its special relation to the Sun's light, hence the water cycle; 4. The water cycle and its special beneficiary and member, biology; 5. biology and its special category, animal biology (plant/animal/mineral = animal); 6. Animal biology and its special category, human; 7. The man and his wife (Genesis 2:21-23) This seven-fold recursion shows that, contrary to either a godless or a Platonic outlook, Genesis 1:1 can be seen to be entirely concerned to affirm the fact that, since the Living God designed and created us, we not only are not insignificant, we are the central value of the entire account and of the entire cosmos. For, this view of v. 1 sets the theme for the rest of the account. Even more, this seven-fold recursion fits the fact that Genesis 1 conspicuously lacks mention of any material origin only of humans. This uniquely lack of such mention at once (A) poses humans as transcending the Earth and (B) as implying that such mention is to be anticipated, as a completion to the first chapter. Per 7, this anticipation is fulfilled in Genesis chapter 2. Indeed, unlike the English syntax, the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1 is made up of the following three phrases: (H1) In the Beginning created... (H2) God... (H3) the Heaven and the Earth. ...thereby putting God in the center between anticipation and fulfillment. .

[@CarmenJoyImesPhD]

Thanks for these thoughts! You may be right that the man was not yet lonely, but that God anticipated his state was not sustainable. We are made for community!

[@danielpech6521]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD I'm wondering if Genesis 2 is written the way it is in order to empathize with the plight of single young men and women in the Fallen world. Especially v. 20b.

[@danielpech6521]

@@CarmenJoyImesPhD You said 'not yet lonely'. Do you think Adam was mateless for a prolonged amount of time, so that, even if he early-on saw that God would eventually provide him a mate, he became lonely?

[@flematicoreformandose5046]

Unfortunately I don't have a wife, I had a very difficult childhood and adolescence, and I cannot comment on marriage. You are sure to do better than me. The only thing I can say about sex is that I don't think it only serves to procreate but also for both mutual and individual pleasure

[@pelguetab]

Thank you!