Creation from another angle

With Genesis 2 you get another take on creation. Now you learn that humanity doesn't really bear a connection to the animal kingdom but is specially made. Bravo for us, though it may tend to confirm the notion that we think too much of ourselves. The point is that we still have the alternative of seeing ourselves as the product of chance meetings of cells or finding ourselves the unique result of the work of a Maker.

So God puts this human into his environment, gives him a mandate to take care of it as a careful steward, then determines that the man is lonely. Out of the man he makes woman, thus establishing society, connectedness, community.

In return, he asks only one thing - that these people not forget where they came from and who steers the course of their lives. This is not the kind of Maker who brings everything into being, then walks away and leaves the world to its own devices. This is a Maker who sets conditions on his relationship with the humans he formed - they can live in paradise, but they have to take note that he's in charge. Some people would call that a bummer. Maybe. Maybe not.

What do you think?