Jon Collins

And what does it say in Genesis 2?

Let no man separate.

The two will become one flesh.

There's this unity.

I see.

We're family.

So it's talking about creating a family bond.

Yeah.

So this might be a big distraction, but...

I've heard it said that maybe at one time in human society, especially maybe in some sort of tribal setting, that maybe some tribes would not have the value of creating these covenant bonds.

And so it was much more free flow, like the community raised children.

And what mattered was the women got pregnant and the children were born within the community.

But like who...

was sleeping with who, and who was committed to, that didn't really matter.

And you can imagine that kind of tribe existing, and there's all sorts of complex things to do with it.

So what you're saying is Genesis 1 leaves open, like, yeah, how are we going to do this?

And so why then this value of...

Genesis 2, like a man and a woman coming together, finding this unity, and through that then, reproduction in life.

This focus on that bond.

Okay.