Perhaps this will help.
By oldhermit
[FONT=Georgia, serif]Chapter Two[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]I. And God Rested, 1-3. How is 'rested' defined by the text?[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]A. The completion of the hosts of heaven. This disavows any notion of progressive creation. Example: The star nursery theory. Natural processes do not overturn the operation of God and continue the process on their own. New star development is non-observable. Unlike animate life, stars do not produce after their own kind. All stars were created in a single point in time. When this work was completed and God was satisfied, HE STOPPED MAKING THEM.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
B. The completion of earthly life – No room for the theory of bio-evolution.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
C. God celebrated the completion of the creation process.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
1. He ceased from his work. When he stopped, it stopped.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
2. He blessed the day as the end of the act of creation.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
3. He set that day apart from the rest.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]II. The Vegetation Conundrum, 5-9.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]A. How does verse 5 harmonize with 1:12?[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
In 1:12 the complete catalog of mature vegetation has already appeared 'ON' the earth. In verse 5, no shrub of the earth was yet 'IN' the earth, i.e. no plant “of the field” had yet sprouted. This is limiting. “Of the field” refers to those things that are intended for cultivation and harvest. This is confirmed by the requisite statement “for there was no man to till the ground.”[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
1. This is not a barren earth but an earth that is protected from over-growth due to the lack of human involvement.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
2. Grass is still growing, fruits are seeds are still being produced. The food chain is in tact. “They shall be food for you and all the animals,” 1:30.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
B. Two necessary ingredients for second generational growth – rainfall and a caretaker.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]III. The Formation of Man and the Planting of the Garden, 7-9, 15-17.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]A. Man was formed outside the garden and brought into the garden. [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia, serif]
B. The garden environment[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
1. Aesthetic – pleasing to the senses.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
2. Protective – no dangers, nothing to harm, no fears.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
3. Controlled – every conceivable need is supplied – food, a helper, and responsibility.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
C. The sole prohibition: [/FONT]
“[FONT=Georgia, serif]Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
The epistemological standard for regulating human reason and behavior is forever set forth in this single text. “And the Lord God said...” No other considerations are relevant. Violation of this standard will prove fatal. “You shall surely die.” [/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]IV. Creation of Woman, 18-25.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, serif]A. Man is in need of a helper that is compatible and suitable to man.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
B. The presentation and naming of the animals. “To see what he would call them.” This is about more than Adam simply assigning names to the animals. In his naming of the animals, Adam calls none of them helper.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
1. There is no compatibility.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
2. They are not suited to satisfy man's physiological, or psychological, or emotional needs.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
C. Formed out of Adam thus, not an independent creation. This makes woman unique among all created beings. [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia, serif]
1. Presented to man[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
2. Name and declaration of relationship [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia, serif]
a. Woman - because she is taken out of man.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
b. Wife – the two shall become one flesh.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
c. Satisfied all compatibility issues - physiologically, or psychologically, and emotionally.[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, serif]
d. Suitable as a helper.[/FONT]