"..IN THE IMAGE OF GOD WAS ADAM CREATED; MALE & FEMALE DID GOD CREATE ADAM.* "

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Not just two animals in a symbiotic relationship, each run by impulses designed to aid those animals in the survival of their species.

But two unique creatures (baby, no, fetal gods -i.e. able to, and meant to, look at the overall view, and make choices for the best (of the whole she-bang, even choices that might bring on their own hurt). These last choices (that are best for the whole she-bang, but are for their own hurt), if done with a certain spirit of "seeking glory, honour, and immortality", or "trusting the IS-ness, behind the whole universe", or "an implicit connectedness to all goodness" function as the pathway, the test, the way forward, the canal of pain and suffering down which they must travel in order to get "born", to graduate to being a baby god, in a new-creation body, immortal (like Jesus's resurrection body).

This special relationship (between a male/female image/likeness of YHWH/Elohim) is a key experience which is meant to be a training process, as well as to act as a metaphor, designed to produce many progeny, in all senses, physically, emotionally, idea-ly.

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I heard someone call it a TWOMAN (said as 2 MAN, but when spelled out, it beautifully, both overlaps & retains connotations of all three concepts: TWO, WOMAN & MAN)

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The trick seems to me to be to learn to freely give my personal identity & creative, loving, & regenerative powers to the life of this mystical creature that cannot be (physically) seen. 

The participation in, and experience of, the building & creation of this real but unseen ephemoral creature is an experience of a metaphor designed to lead one on to something bigger than one's individual self. Something freely entered into by smaller selves, and that will give each self entering an experience of a corporate, or bigger, kind of one-ness, & selfhood, from which all other "ones", or selves are birthed.

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* After "day 5":

..God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 

Then God said, 

‘Let us make ADAM in our image, in our likeness, 

so as to rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ 

So God created ADAM in his own image, 

in the image of God was ADAM created; 

male and female did God create ADAM. 

God blessed ADAM and said, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’ 

Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food.’ And it was so. 

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. 

And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day. 

Genesis 1:25‭-‬31 (see Hebrew, NIV, NRSV, NLT, GNB, & if you don't know the "original" language, read multiple translations, & see footnotes. A further > thousand translations available by choosing from the drop down menu at the top of each column beside the translation heading.)

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