Q88: HOW ARE ADAM AND EVE RELATED? CAN 2ND DEGREE COUSINS MARRY EACH OTHER?

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1. Mag kaano-ano si Eva and Adam?
2. Pwedi po bang ikasal ng simbahan ang 2nd degree cousin na mag kaiba ng apelyedo?

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Jeu Mortege
Cebu, Philippines

Q1. Mag kaano-ano si EVA and ADAM?

A1. Eve is the very part of Adam's body and soul. When God created Adam, he is composed of both Male and Female aspects. In Kabbalah, Chochmah and Binah (Abba and Ima, Father and Mother), are the aspects of Male and Female. They were partners in the process of the Creation of the world. 

Genesis 1:26 writes, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." This was said in plural form, so the result was also in the plural form, but as one, as God is one.

Adam and Eve were made in one body, not separated. In modern terms, Adam is an Androgyny. The Male and Female aspects of the original Adam are in the BACK-TO-BACK position.

• So God created Man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; Male and Female created He them.  (Gen 1:27 KJV)

For the reason stated in Genesis 1:27, every creation in this world requires male and female aspects.

Thus, upon Adam's creation, God included the Female aspect in Adam together with his Male aspect. In this original creation, Adam has no back, and is double-faced. Later on, God separated the Female aspect, of which Adam called as WOMAN. 

• And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:  (Gen 2:21 BBE) 

• And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.  (Gen 2:22 BBE)

• And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN, BECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN.  (Gen 2:23 KJV)

Before Eve was separated from Adam's body, they named all living creatures and by doing that they defined and channeled the energy of all livings. God finished the Creation of the world but He let them define it. The name is an expression of energy in this world. The name can tell us the essence of the person or living creature that carries that name.

In Genesis 2:20, it is written:   

• And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an HELP meet for him.  (Gen 2:20 KJV)

In the verse above, the word for HELP, has the same letters as meaning 'SEED'. Immediately after that, God separated Eve from Adam's side.

After the process of Creation was completed, Adam and Eve received the power to dominate everything. They had to be separated into two elements of Light and Vessel, male and female. We must have both aspects of the Male and Female to have a continuation of light.

Every living thing in nature was created with seeds to channel the inner light to create more seeds. Before Eve was separated from him, Adam knew that something was missing. He couldn't find a mate to connect with his seeds. 

After Eve was separated from Adam, they are in the FACE-TO-FACE position; now, able to mate and produce their own seeds or offspring. They are now Husband and Wife; the two becoming one, again, this time in the Face-to-Face relationship. This is the whole concept and original design of divine marriage.

• For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.  (Gen 2:24 BBE)

To summarize, and to directly answer your question, Adam and Eve are soul mates, and they are the ideal Husband and Wife.

Q2. Pwedi po bang ikasal ng simbahan ang 2nd degree cousin na mag kaiba ng apelyedo?

A2. If we base our decision on the marriage of Jacob to his  two cousins (Rachel and Leah), who are the daughters of Laban, his uncle, we could say that 2nd degree cousins are eligible for Marriage (Genesis 29:16-28).

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