Dichotomies in the book of Genesis are used to provide a sense of balance in all of God’s creations. For every thing created, there is a counterpart, and without one another, there is an imbalance. When God created the Earth he created along with it, the Sky above, expressing the static nature of the ground and the dynamic potential of the sky to create a balanced singularity, The Planet. God seems to be the greatest alchemist. When taming dirt into life we see further balance in his creations. The small avian creatures and largest deep sea dwellers were ultimately created from the same product, and they with the other creatures on land in a balanced state of coexistence.
The one creation God could not create with harmony and balance, was (oddly enough) the one he made in his own image. Man arose from the dirt to assume ownership and rights over all other living things on the Planet, all the things God found to be “good”. God then used heavy anesthetics and once man was in deep sleep, he plucked from him a rib to create a “her”. Male and Female energies began to interact in a pure setting until the counterpart to God himself emerged and dirtied man’s legacy from then on.
Good and evil, honesty and deceit, action and consequence, yes even dominance and submissiveness were all dichotomies present in the creation of God’s world. Perhaps the ultimate dichotomy was that of the “forbidden” tree from which Eve ate. Something as powerful as prohibition by God himself is broken by a mere creation (that was once a rib) of that God, a momentary act of balance that creates an eternal imbalance. If our actions and the will of God form a dichotomy, then what’s the real dichotomy? Is there really any balance in obeying orders received? Who knows, really.
