EVE - MOTHER OF ALL LIVING

Eve - Mother of All Living


1. God created Mankind.

“What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.” Psalms 8:4-5; Hebrews 2:6-8

“This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.” Gen 5:1-2


a) Both Adam and Eve were created in the image of God. So are each one of us.

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Gen 1:27

Because of the law of natural generation, the lives of men and women are intertwined. Paul wrote: "Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. For as woman was from the man, even so the man also is through the woman; but all things are from God." (1 Cor. 11:11-12).

b) Brothers and sisters in Christ.

“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:27-28

c) Fill the earth with people.

“Satan is unable to beget sons and daughters.” Jack Hayford. Only Jehovah God has the power to Create and Generate.

“And Adam called his wife's name Eve (Life), because she was the mother of all living.” Gen 3:20

“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the Lord." Gen 4:1

d) God authorized Marriage with Adam & Eve.

“And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female.’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’” Matt. 19:4

“Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.” 1 Timothy 5:14


2. The Seed of the Woman.

"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law." Gal. 4:4

The Eternal Word - God The Son - came as the son of a human mother. He came into our world to be our Savior. He came as the seed of the woman - without a human biological father.

“Nevertheless she [Eve = woman] will be saved in [the] childbearing if they [women] continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.” 1 Timothy 2:15 [The original Bible has "the childbearing."]

MacKnight (a contemporary of Campbell) says: “However, though Eve was first in transgression, and brought death on herself, her husband, and her posterity, the female sex shall be saved equally with the male, through [the] childbearing; through bringing forth the Savior; if they [women] live in faith, and love, and chastity [holiness], with sobriety [modesty] which I have been recommending.”

Probably Paul says some of these things to refute those who said that woman was guilty of destroying the human race. Paul shows us, that if woman brought sin into the world, she also brought the Savior [the seed of the woman, Gen. 3:15]!


3. Companions and partners in salvation.

Salvation is the goal of both the man and the woman. They both achieve great happiness in working out the penalty which God placed on Adam and Eve.

“Paul argues that now, by faith in who Christ is and what He has done, men and women of all races, and of every social class, are offered the opportunity to become inheritors of the promise made to Abraham. By faith and baptism they become part of Christ and part of each other, caught up into the Family of God. Gal. 3:26-29."

“We cry ABBA FATHER” Romans 8:15.