Bible Study (Genesis and the Fall of Man)

These are just notes that I literally wrote while I was reading the Bible. They make sense in my head, but that doesn't mean they are coherent at all. If you have n e questions or would like to spark a discussion please feel free to comment or contact me on Twitter (SCeCeW), Facebook (CeCe CynthiaMarie) or my email (cece.cynthiamarie@gmail.com)

Genesis 1
-The repeated use of the word “good” to describe God’s creations. God sees they are good and yet he continues to build on it. Good does not mean no room for improvement. Good means it is just what it needs to be to prepare for the next step. Can things be perfect even if only for that moment?
-Genesis 1:25-27“God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’” Perhaps speaking to everything he has created. He could not be the Creator had He not Created. That is to say He is a reflection of the “good” that he has created and so He is not creating man from a vision like everything else, but rather in an image as in to fit what has already been created.
-Genesis 1:28 “rule over” Isn’t there a scripture about man “ruling over” his wife???
-Eve could have children from the beginning

Adam and Eve
-Begins on the 2nd day? Vegetation came on the 3rd day, but it says “no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up,” (Gen. 2:5) But “streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-“ (Gen. 2:6) Even though there was not ground until the 3rd day?
-“It is not good for man to be alone.” So there is such thing as “not good” within God’s Creations.
-What is the significance of man naming God’s creatures? Proof of love? Proof of power?
-Does Adam name himself?
-“A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh” Does this imply woman will not leave her father and mother until her husband is ready? Does this imply “soul-mates”? There is a flesh that will make our bond tangible?
-What if it had been written in present tense?
-Why does Eve misquote God??
-“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was…desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” (Gen. 3:6)
-Why are wisdom and knowledge so forbidden?
-What did the Serpant have to gain @ the fall of man? POWER?? ←Theme??
-To know good and evil means you can choose good or evil. But everything God made was “good”…
-“Your desire will be for your husband and he will **rule over you” (Gen. 3:16) to be ruled is punishment.
-“He must not…take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” (Gen. 3:23) Humans were always meant to die.