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In their translation (the New World Translation) John 1:1 reads: “In the beginning the Word was, the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.” This teaches them that “god” is not unique to any one person but is applicable to the Word who was with another God.

The first couple lived alone in the garden. The two are to be viewed as one.
A. Genesis 2:24 - In the garden, two persons, the man and the woman, “became one flesh.”
B. Genesis 5:1,2 :
• “God created man” (singular)
• “He made him” (singular)
• “named them Man” (singular)
Yet it also says:
• “He created them male and female” (plural)
• “He blessed them” (plural)
• “and named them” (plural)
• “they were created” (plural)

Note: that the first couple was collectively named “Man.” This was their original name for the woman was not given her individual name “Eve” until after her sin (in Genesis 3:20; see Genesis 2:23). The reference to “man” was interchangeable with “them” and included both the male and the female.

C. Genesis 1:26,27 -
• “Let Us make man” (=“adam”, singular)”
• “God created man” (singular)
• “He created him” (singular)
In contrast the same text also says:
• “. . . let them rule” (plural)
• “male and female he created them” (plural)

Again, the reference to “man” was interchangeable with “them” and included both the male and the female. “Man” meant “mankind.”

D. Mark 10:6-8 - Jesus refers to the first couple and after stating they were one flesh adds “they are no longer two.”

These verses imply that in the creation account singular references to “man” include the two persons in the garden. This is unusual with the more common meaning of the term “man” referring to the primary person in the couple, the male (Genesis 2:21). Likewise, although the term “God” can on occasion mean “Us” and “Our” (“Let Us make . . . Our image . . . Our likeness . . .” - Genesis 1:26) likely the more common meaning is the “Father,” the primary person in the ‘Godhead.’

JWs how do you understand this statement and do you agree with it?
“In the garden was the woman, the woman was with the man and the woman was man.”

Would it be correct to say “the woman was a man” or “the woman was the man?”

Please let's focus on these two questions

Gen 5 :1-2 NIV student bible Version


"This is the written account of Adam's Line.
When God created man,he made him in the likeness of God.(2) He created them male and female and blessed them.And when they were created,he called them "Man"

kallmemrB:
Gen 5 :1-2 NIV student bible Version


"This is the written account of Adam's Line.
When God created man,he made him in the likeness of God.(2) He created them male and female and blessed them.And when they were created,he called them "Man"

And this mean?