All the good and agreeable for man
In the first chapters of the Bible we can find the description of how God created all the life on this planet. Whenever He created something new, He checked it and asserted that it was good; then He continued His work. The last of God’s creations was man. We can see God the Creator who creates agreeable things for the man:
Genesis 2, 8-9 (ASV): And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
We can see that God created the world to be “pleasant to live in”; not just pills full of nutrients or sockets to get charged up, but trees with beautiful and delicious fruit.
God created man in His image, blessed him and assigned him a task:
Genesis 1, 26-28 (ASV): And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 2, 19-20 (ASV): And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.
While Adam was calling the animals, God listened intently. The Bible doesn’t say whether Adam noted that there is none equal to him among the whole creation or whether it was God’s loving initiative to create a mate for Adam. Whichever was the case, it was again a manifestation of God’s love and care.
Genesis 2, 18 (ASV): And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Genesis 2, 21-24 (ASV): And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man 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. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
