The account of the creation of mankind as recorded in Genesis contains the secret of the mystery of man’s existence. In the expanded version of the creation of man and woman (Genesis 2), God had formed man out of the elements that He had already created and then brought life to the man by placing His Spirit within the inanimate form. After placing the individual man in the Garden of Eden, it is recorded that God passed judgment on the life that the first man was experiencing. God simply stated, "It is not good that the man should be alone..." (Gen. 2:18).

With alone meaning, "properly, separation; by implication, a part...," man’s life was in part, not completed. Although Adam had a powerful relationship with God (sin had not occurred), he was lacking in his fulfillment of life. It is significant to point out that God does not say of the individual man that he is created in the image of God. Nor, does God say that the individual man was created in the likeness of God. He simply stated that it is not good.

It is only after the second person is created that it could be said that the pair, male and female, was created in the image of God and in the likeness of God. With the creation of the second person and the coming together of the two, it created a third entity of creation, the relationship between the two individual persons. It is only in this relationship between the two that the image of God and the likeness of God can be seen.

Although both the man and the woman experienced life because the Spirit of God dwelled within them, they could not experience the full manifestation (image and likeness) of the life of God until they were brought together to express the essence of God, oneness in threeness. Moreover, since God is a spirit, it would take the non-corporeal relationship between them to reflect his character.

The image and likeness of God cannot be exhibited by anything that is material, earthly. The individual earthly pair could experience the heavenly because they could form a relationship between them. Together they could experience the image and likeness of God.

Moreover, the image of God manifested between them would only occur as the mystery and the power of life itself is experienced. Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" (John 12:24). It is only when the individuals of the relationship do not attempt to live for themselves by using the other that the likeness of God can be seen. The mystery and the power of life is found simply in the enhancement of others at one’s own expense.

An individual will always find himself alone, regardless of his accomplishments, unless he "fall[s] into the ground and die." This mysterious truth is illustrated in the creation of the original pair. After Adam, the individual man, is created and God stated that it was not good for him to experience life alone, Adam was taken down. Before the second person could be created, Adam was put to sleep and out of his side a rib was taken. The essence of the second person was taken out of the first person. Thus, Eve would be called woman because she was taken out of man.

The revelation of how mankind was created is not just a simple creation story. It is the revelation of the fellowship of the mystery of life. The glorious moment of the ultimate manifestation of life is only in the coming of the two together to experience the image and the likeness of God. It is the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.