Be Fruitful and Multiply

Recently I was told that the first woman, Eve, was created after “God saw everything that He made, and behold, it was good. And the even and the morning were the sixth day. “¹I have always believed that Adam and Eve were both made on the same day. “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. “² “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply… “³

At first I feared that “through philosophy and vain deceit” my companions, and possibly others, have given “heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Now, the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith…” ⁴ “Therefore I said, hearken unto me; I also will shew mine opinion. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.” ⁵ “A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.” ⁶

“When a brother receives new light upon Scriptures, he should frankly explain his position, and every minister should search the Scriptures with the spirit of candor to see if the points presented can be substantiated by the Inspired Word.

“It is the duty of ministers to respect the judgment of their brethren; but their relations to one another, as well as the doctrines they teach, should be brought to the test of the law and the testimony; then, if the hearts are teachable, there will be no divisions among us.”

“God is leading a people out from the world upon the exalted platform of eternal truth, the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus… They will not be at variance, one believing one thing and another having faith and views entirely opposite…”

“God and heaven alone are infallible. Those who think that they will never have to give up cherished views, never have occasion to change an opinion, will be disappointed. As long as we hold to our own ideas and opinions with determined persistency, we cannot have the unity which Christ prayed.”?

“And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and bought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called that living creature, that was the name thereof.” ⁸ “Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say,” ⁹ Be fruitful and multiply, when “there was not found a help meet for him?” “Our Lord Himself has given the command, ‘Be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) and this is also a promise of its fulfilment.” ¹⁰

“Ah Lord God! Behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arms, ant there is nothing too hard for Thee.

“In the selfsame day entered Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark. They and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.” ¹² Of every clean beast, seven pairs were taken into the ark, and of every unclean beast two pairs, male and female. “Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and his female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.” ¹³

All these entered the ark in the selfsame day.
Therefore to say that Adam could not have named every living creature within a day, every even half a day, would be assumption. “Man was originally endowed with noble powers and a well-balanced mind. He was perfect in his being, and in harmony with God.” ¹⁴ “God made man upright; He endowed him with high intellectual powers, and presented before him the strongest possible inducements to be true to his allegiance.” ¹⁵

True, Adam became lonely, especially after he witnessed every living creature with its mate, enjoying each other and the world not marred by sin. “But for Adam there was not found an help meet.” ¹⁶ “Man was not made to dwell in solitude; he was to be a social being. Without companionship the beautiful scenes and delightful employments of Eden would have failed to yield perfect happiness. Even communion with angels could not have satisfied his desire for sympathy and companionship. There was none of the same nature to love and to be loved. ¹⁷

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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.” ¹⁸ “What therefore God had joined together let no man put asunder.” ¹⁹

“Everything that God made was perfection of beauty, and nothing seemed wanting that could contribute to the happiness of the holy pair…” ²⁰ “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He rested from all His work which God created and made.” ²¹ “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy maidservant, they manservant, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” ²² “Let us labour therefore to enter into the rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” ²³ Amen

1) Genesis 1:31
2) 1 Timothy 2:13
3) Genesis 1:28, first part
4) 1 Timothy 4:1
5) Job 32:10, 9
6) Proverbs 1:5
7) TM pp. 29-31
8) Genesis 2:19
9) Habakkuk 2:6
10) MB pp. 21
11) Jeremiah 32:17
12) Genesis 7: 13,14
13) Genesis 7:2,3
14) SC pp. 17
15) PP pp. 49
16) Genesis 2:20, last part
17) PP pp. 46
18) Genesis 21-23
19) Mark 10:9
20) PP pp.46
21) Genesis 2:1-3
22) Exodus 20:8-11
23) Hebrews 4:11