As I lay half awake and half asleep, I wondered; If mankind are the offspring of Adam and are Adam’s kind, what would the offspring of Eve be called?
After considering many options, I
settled on Eve’s kind as “Evil.”
After sin, it is written, “Adam
called his wife's name ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all living” (Gen
3:20).
Adam had named all the kinds
before sin, “The Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of
the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof” (Gen
2:19).
After sin, the woman changed. She
went from ‘Issa (woman) to Haua (Eve). Her kind had changed, and
Adam named her new kind, remembering that individual names were not used but
the names of the kinds, or “families” of creatures in taxonomy. Eve was a new
species in the family of man.
Before sin, who gave life? Of
course, God breathed life unto Adam and Adam shared his life with Eve. God gave
life to man and woman was of man. (They were the “Adams Family.”)
God was the giver of life, but after sin, Eve was the giver of life, at least physically. Now consider some English words from the Hebrew:
- Eve = ḥaua = life giver, possibly “serpent” causatively from hava — show (Serpent because it sounds like the Aramaic word)
- Evil = ra’ = bad, wicked, injured and from the root ra’a — broken
- Woman = ‘issa
- Wife = ‘issa = , irregular plural nashiym, similar to ‘is = man = extant
Sin showed Adam a new kind, one
that would give life. True to her name, Eve, not God, created the next being: “Adam
knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, ‘I have gotten a
man from the Lord’” (Gen 4:1). (She had created the being, not God!)
That sounds innocent enough until much later when the apostle John wrote this:
This is the message
that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as
Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he
him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous (1 John 3:11-12)
John knew the genesis of our
kind. It was Eve, not Adam, who is the genesis of all the living. “Adam knew (yada)”
his wife, not carnally, but he saw her. He named her “Eve” because her
name means ‘show.’ Eve must have put on quite a show for Adam because he watched
her conceive. She did evil in the sight of both him and God.
So, when “Adam knew Eve,
his wife” he watched her engage in copulation — carnal knowledge. While he
watched, “she conceived (hara), or “contrived;” perhaps she conceived
and contrived at the same time!
“She bare Cain.” She brought Qayin
forth from her womb from her side — the vagina — not Adam’s side or even his
rib. Cain was not of man (Adam), but Eve (‘Issa). If Adam had fathered
Cain, then Cain would have been an Adam. Eve brought forth an ‘Is
(pronounced eesh).
Qayin means “possession”
and comes from the root noun of the same spelling, meaning “spear.” Qayin was
born to take away life that God had made, so his target was Abel.
It is supposed that Abel was the supernatural
son of God. Paul told the Jews that Abel offered to God a more excellent
sacrifice (than Cain) as a witness to his righteousness (Heb 11:4). Abel (Hebel) means “breath.” Hidden in
his name was that God brought forth Abel, not by carnal knowledge and Adam
copulating, but by Himself breathing life unto the woman. Abel, as such, would
have been a foreshadowing of Jesus if the woman had not sinned; hence the
importance of the virgin, Mary, who had no knowledge of the flesh from any man.
Abel and Cain were of different kinds.
Cain was a gatherer (Gen 4:3) and Abel a hunter (Gen 4:2). Hunters and
gatherers are still used to define men in the process of time as in Gen 4:1.
The point God made was that Cain
and Abel were of different lineage — paternally Cain from the Wicked One and
Abel from God. As such “mankind” was immediately killed off by the son of the
Devil, and we only think of ourselves as man… However, we are hybrids of an alien
being from another realm (not planets as some think) and woman from this world.
Our lineage is one of “symbiosis”
and we are ‘symbiotic” — “living in or being a close physical association between
two or more dissimilar organisms”
Genesis is about the beginnings
of life. No longer are we the Image of God (Selem in the Hebrew), but
the image (nahas) of the devil, Lucifer. We call ourselves “mankind” but
that is deception!
Why is humility so important in
scripture? We are to recognize that our genesis is not quite what we think! We
come short of the Glory of God (Rom 3:23). We have devolved from once
glorious creatures like God to inglorious decadent, depraved creatures like “our
father, the Devil” (John 8:44), not that the Devil sired us, but that his
genetics remains in all of us today; and that is implied by the nomenclature, “original
sin.”
So, I have wondered what we
should be called rather than “mankind” or “human beings.”
The word “human” comes from the
Latin word, “homo,” meaning man-beings.
Beings in general are
anthropoid existences. Man, in the Greek, is anthropolos. We are the
only upright walking creatures without tails to balance us. Eve brought forth not
a “man” but an ‘Is — an extant being — another non-man existence. (We
are not “upright man” as we think but stooped creatures, in a sense; not physically
but morally.)
So, what should we be called? “Kenites”
might do because Cain’s offspring were called that. Indeed, we are of Cain
because all come short of the glory of God like Cain who was of the Wicked One.
However, we are sons of God
as well, since Seth was the “Second Adam,” given that the true Son of
God was killed by Cain.
Therefore, when the sons of God
married the daughters of men (Gen 6:4), the beings thereafter were all evil since
those “sons of God” were Seth’s progeny and the “daughters of men” were thought
to be “sons of Adam.”
However, the creatures that the
women brought forth were not men (Adama) but “Gibor” — powerful
tyrants. Their new natures were tyrannical like Cain’s. So, even we are more
like the spear-chucking Cain than humble, righteous Abel. We are certainly not “sons
of God” nor even “daughters of Adam,” but tyrannical “children” of demonic
beings. That should humble you, but engage with a righteous person for a period
in time, and just watch the demons reveal themselves in them with their anger
and arrogance!
So, should we call ourselves “Giborites”
or “Kenites” rather than human beings? That would be fitting, but there is a
moral relationship between “Eve” and “evil” that seems obvious. Of course,
those two words are not directly connected in any way from either the English,
nor the Hebrew. However, they are connected in performance. Eve did bad things;
she did evil. So, I believe that “Evilites” or “Evites,” as the family of the
mother of all the living would be appropriate.
However, we already have a
genetic name for those from Eve. Sin ruled over Eve and because she is
our genetic mother, sin rules over us (Gen 4:7). The name that our kind
is born with is “Sinner;” that is our kind; that is Eve’s kind!
Eve came short of the glorious
Image of God and Cain was conceived in sin. Cain was Eve showing Adam
her sin. No wonder her name is “Show me!” Because Eve is our genetic “mother,” and the Devil,
our genetic “father” then we are all “sinners” indeed. Our nature is to do evil
rather than good. It is easy to do what is not right. It is easy to do
what comes naturally. Our nature is to do “the lusts of your father” the
Devil (John 8:44) because it is in our genes to do so. Indeed, not to sin,
is to do the unnatural, but divine, things.
For those things to be natural, we
must die within ourselves and be born again (John 3:7). That is to be engendered
from God to be made whole, or full of the glory of God in the same manner as
Adam and Jesus — the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45). The Last Adam, in that verse,
is the “quickening Spirit” that makes the dead alive again.
“The dead?” Yes, sinners are dead…
they are dead to God and to can be made alive again by an infusion — a propitiation
— of the blood of Jesus (Rom 3:25). That is not an injection of the Savior’s
blood at all, but Him from above just breathing life via His Holy Spirit
into our souls.
It is a “living soul” that God
breathed into Adam, not into his flesh, but in the same manner as Jesus breathes
life the souls of sinners at His last breath when He gave up the Ghost,
or Spirit, for us.
In summary, the living dead are
called “sinners,” and those who choose life are called “Christians.”
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