Single parenting by immortals was the only known form of reproduction in the entire universe at the beginning of time. God had materialized himself as a host of spiritual sons of God and the first material being, who was then cloned into Adam the 2nd. The man and wo-man (meaning “taken out of man” were told to multiply before they ate the fruit, so they had the same asexual ability as the spirit sons of God and t
he hydra which reproduces through budding rather than mating.
But when the Adams lost their connection to the Singularity source of omnipotent energy, they could not reproduce more of themselves without losing themselves in the process. Without a doubt the Adversary expected God’s death curse on the Adams to be the end of humanity.
But at the moment of the first death of mankind, this was still a mystery to be revealed when YHVH delivered his sentences to the guilty parties.
“the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed…And I will put enmity between…thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise / crush thy head [permanently destroy], and thou shalt bruise his heel [temporarily incapacitate].” (Genesis 3:14-15)
What’s this?? Seed?? What’s seed??
This was a whole element to the battle, completely unknown before death entered the world.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn / seed of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit…Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:23, 31)
Apply what is known about human sexual reproduction – the gametes (sperm and eggs) are produced through a process that requires the elimination of cells in the process.
The biological sexual changes after death was imposed on humanity’s DNA is explicitly stated in the ancient Book of Enoch, chapter 15.
“they…die. And for this reason I give men wives; so that they might sow seed in them, and so that children might be born by them, so that deeds might [continue to] be done on the Earth.
The Greek word for seed is sperma, and the medical term from the Latin is gamete, and includes both the sperm and egg cells, both types having eliminated – died off – half the genes from their originator cells to keep the normal number of genes the same in the offspring produced by the union of the sperm and egg. Fatal effects result from too many or too few of the correct number of genes.
The sex-determining chromosomes were split between the man and the woman, with the woman getting the larger share of genes with a pair of full-length female strands of genes picturesquely called “X” chromosomes, and the man’s smaller share consisting of a pair of one full-length female strands each paired with a much shorter male strand forming a contrasting “Y”.
Notice that the woman transmits more of her genes to the child than the male, through the larger X chromosome. Every individual must have an X chromosome.
The female egg cell is much larger than the male sperm and is the only gamete that survives and continues the process of reproducing offspring. All the other sperm die after one of them delivers its payload of the other half of the chromosomes to the egg.
The female egg contains the energy-producing mitochondria, which produce the energy current of the cell and regulate cellular metabolism.
Wow. How straightforward a reparation is that?
The way the woman provided corrective action for causing death to come on all mankind is by the equal and opposite reaction of passing on life in her seed / egg cell.
This is nothing less than sharing in the process of redemption. While the Catholic Church applies this to Mary the mother of Jesus, I put it to you that Eve is the true co-redeemer of mankind when she submitted to YHVH’s assignment of her role in re-creation and the new birth.
“The title, “Co-redemptix,” refers to Mary’s unique participation with and under her Divine Son Jesus Christ, in the historic Redemption of humanity. The prefix, “Co,”…means “with.” The title…never places Mary on a level of equality with Jesus Christ…Rather, it denotes Mary’s singular and unique sharing with her Son in the saving work of Redemption for the human family.
Let’s not have a knee-jerk reaction against anything Catholic, but rather analyze in light of holy scripture.
“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” (Genesis 3:20)
This informs our understanding of:
“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” (Revelation 12:1-4)
The woman is not symbolic of the Christian church or the nation of Israel, nor does she not represent or only Mary the mother of Jesus. She is Eve, the carrier of the very first X chromosomes carried by ALL humanity as the Mother of All Living in coordination with the Spirit of God for the perpetuation of the first breath of God into the first Adam.
The female’s egg cell is one meaning of “the seed of the woman.”
The significance of this is shortly realized in Genesis 6. For now, it is important to become thoroughly knowledgeable of some biology most of us missed or forgot from high school.
While each gamete has half of the required chromosomes, two of the same gametes cannot merge to form a complete human. Obviously the sperm do not have the egg cell environment or mitochondria required for growth and development of the newly joined chromosomes.
But neither can the chromosomes from a female be injected into a female egg cell to form a female. Due to a chemical imprint called methylation which is uniquely male or female there must be a male sperm and a female egg joined to procreate a new individual.
Faced with this scientific truth, we’re left with two options. Acknowledge a Creative Designer or stubbornly claim to be scientific by believing in Evolution by chance from chaos to design contrary to the known Laws of Physics of Entropy in which constant deterioration occurs without the input of outside energy. Which is basing belief on the scientific process?
What follows is a biology lesson on the process of forming the Seed of the woman. Fit this into the process of Evolution if you can.
Chromosomes come in pairs. A single chromosome is referred to as N, or ha-ploid / half. A full set of two chromosomes is referred to as 2N, or diploid.
The same species-specific complete 2N set of chromosomes is in every nucleus of every cell of the body. Just one cell is needed to reproduce into another cell like itself, or into a complete organism.
In mitosis, the full set of chromosomes are duplicated and passed to the reproduced cell, producing identical offspring. This occurs constantly in the cells of healthy tissues like skin, muscles, liver, etc.
A different process – meiosis – does not simply reproduce the chromosomes into more of the same. It adds another phase of
- shuffling the genes across the corresponding chromosome pairs,
- then splitting the 2N sets of chromosomes into 1N, exactly half of the pairs of chromosomes for that species,
- packaged into gametes – sperm or egg,
- each one different from all the other cells produced at this time because the genes were shuffled across the chromosome pairs.
Think of it like shuffling a deck of cards. Each hand is different.
Then, since only half the required genes are provided, the other half must be provided by a second parent. The mother can only provide X chromosomes. The father provides either an X or a Y chromosome. The combination of XX is a female, the combination of XY is a male.
Now when you combine the gametes from two different people, you can see how unique that individual would be.
The Likeness Of God!
Unity in diversity!
“without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God / Creator of life, Re-Creator of life after death was manifest in the flesh.” (I Timothy 3:15)
Beyond the legal proof of witnesses to Jesus’ resurrection or a religious creed, we have the indisputable evidence of the culmination of the regeneration of an entirely new body from the dead observed in the birth of babies formed as a result of the death of the seeds of that body during meiosis.
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply…thy conception;” (Genesis 3:16)
We can understand the concrete statement of “multiply thy conception” as expressing the abstract notion of multiple generations, unknown to the Adams until experienced after the fall / decay of order into chaos. Many other mothers listed in Jesus’ matrilineage contributed as much, if not more in some cases, than the men whose ancestry is more well known.
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Tamar – a woman from the vile pagan Canaanite nation who puts her life on the line after being despised and rejected by Judah in order to belong to the Hebrew nation’s God. Her testimony is so compelling that he repents of his action, accepts her into his household and is consequently designated to be the Father of Judaism.
Rahab – a wretched harlot from the vile pagan Canaanite city of Jericho who saved the Hebrew spies at the risk of her own life and was rescued in return from the total annihilation of Jericho.
Although not listed by name in the documentation of the fall of Jericho, according to the standard custom of the times, Rahab’s rescuer united with her in marriage to assure her rescue from death unto life. This is NOT a “picture” of Christ and his bride – but, as with Adam, the template! Salmon, current leader of the tribe of Judah after the death of his father Nahshon’s generation during the forty years wandering in the wilderness, was assuredly one of the (only) two spies (instead of twelve) judicially sent in at this time from the tribes of Judah and Ephraim (the only reliable source of leaders) to scout out the resistance.
Ruth – an impoverished widow from the sexually perverse Moabite nation who chooses to work like a slave to remain in the household of the Hebrew God YHVH through her mother-in-law. Boaz, the mixed breed son of Canaanite Rahab and her Jewish husband, despite assuredly knowing the ostracism he would face from the pure-bred Jews for mixing it up – exactly as happened with Paul because of his ministry of including Gentiles into the Israel of God.
Bathsheba – a married woman taken into the royal household after David manned up to his responsibility to provide for her after he got her pregnant outside of her marriage – the punishment for this being death. The gossip mill of the harem into which her baby was born would have broadcast on the streets faster than Twitter. “Oh no way Bathsheba’s kid belongs to her husband Uriah who’s a Hittite, Indo-European, White for heaven’s sake! That kid has a Jewish nose if ever I saw one. Plus the timing is off. I don’t care if they claim that Uriah popped back to Jerusalem from Rabbah for a couple of days, the entire King’s Guard swears that he never left the barracks so he can’t be the father. And then the King marries her the second she’s a widow and takes the boy for his own? Wake up and smell the coffee!”
David could have brushed this whole embarrassing and reputation-staining incident off his public record by seizing the advantage from the fortuitous death of the tell-tale evidence, but instead he does the complete opposite. He acknowledges his sin, establishes Bathsheba’s innocence, feeds the rumor mill by guaranteeing that Bathsheba, the latest and lowest member of his harem, has a child to replace her first born, and this one conceived in the harem absolutely guaranteed to be David’s, stamping her first child as belonging to David as well. Once has to wonder, how much did Bathsheba’s humility and support of his kingly role influence his change of heart and behavior?
“in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;” (Genesis 3:16)
Typically (as in “I’m rolling my eyes” as well as “it is commonly understood”) this verse has been interpreted as God’s punishment on Eve through painful childbirth.
But is it possible that God was still acting in humanity’s best interests?
Our interpretation is based on our impression of God. Is he a tyrant who brutally punishes slaves who displease him, or a loving, faithful, trustworthy father who patiently guides and disciplines his children through their free-will chosen experiences for their safety, character development, personal insight, maturation and ultimate empowerment?
A parallel situation is Jesus’ response to Peter after he denied / rejected / abandoned him at the second most critical time in the history of humanity. Jesus restored him to to his previous position as a top partner in bringing the Savior to the world by giving him another opportunity to prove his willingness to die for him.
Humans were given authority to make things happen. Consequently our actions trigger irretrievable reactions. What we do really and truly reverberates through our universe and impacts our world – for good or bad. We are not action figures for God to pick up and reposition when we fall. For him to do so would take away our power, our autonomy, our ability to be free individuals and meaningful change agents – learning and growing and developing primarily through suffering the consequences of bad choices. Otherwise we’d just keep on doing the wrong thing, right?
We understand reality-based consequences in the physics dimension. The process of fetal growth and development requires the transfer of nutrients and energy from the mother in a protected environment, costing the mother the energy and freedom to engage in other activities, discomfort including suffering during pregnancy and especially at birth, and even, sometimes, losing her own life, which is why feminists demand abortion rights totally neglecting their responsibility for the babies’ right to life.
We deduce from Peter’s parallel situation that, likewise, the Woman was restored to her position as partner in redemption after proving her willingness to put her faith in YHVH even to death.
Kingdom Come 
Wow, you packed a lot of information in your post. Need to read it more then once.
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