Pastor Claims That God Made Eve So Adam Wouldn’t Be Tempted Into…Bestiality?
Dr. Matthew L. Stevenson III is the senior pastor of All Nations Worship Assembly, an urban charismatic church that claims 15,000 people across ten Chicago and New York City locations.
According to his church bio he is a “global infuencer, culturalist and visionary, violently raised up by God during this complex moment in history” whose ministry is “ministry is earmarked by powerful preaching, bold delivery and unusual supernatural activity.”
It further insists he is “intensely gifted in the prophetic” and that “thousands around the world have been dramatically impacted by his very timely, direct, and specific prophetic words,” all the while providing “spiritual support to entertainers, professional athletes, politicians, and business executives. “
In a recent sermon, he shares several forms of demonic sexual expression, listing pedophilia, molestation, rape, bestiality, orgies, and prostitution. (Notably, homosexuality is suspiciously absent from that list.) At one point, he says this:
Another demonic kind of sexual communication- that’s why they want us to leave them alone- is Bestie darnality. You’re not gonna tell me looking at a mouse, a cat, a goa,t is gonna turn you on. Let me give you some wisdom:
Adam was in Eden with God. Adam was surrounded by animals. God said, huh, watch me. ‘It’s not good for man to be alone.’ It’s not, now y’all see that and y’all like, ‘ooh, cause a man they find a good thing.’ No, it’s deeper. Tell your neighbor it’s deeper. God put a sexual appetite in Adam before he pulled Eve out of him.
Watch me. And God never called Eve ‘Eve’, Adam did. He called Eve ‘Adam’. You don’t have time for that. And so without something coming out of him for compatibility, he still had human hormones. Who would he be attracted to if there was no (unintelligible)? He would have been messing with the animals around him.
So as to prevent…Adam from abasing his self to bestiality, he gave him something that was just like him.So you are not the descendants of apes!
"He would have been messing with the animals around him!"
— Protestia (@Protestia) November 20, 2024
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This one has been on my mind quite a bit the past couple of days, for some reason. And after reviewing the scripture in Gen. 2:18-24, reading some commentary, and giving it some thought, I’ve reached the conclusion that it is not quite that far off. I’d give it a “close but not quite”. And I think the one thing he’s skipped past is that it happened before the fall of creation.
God paraded the animals in front of Adam, while also having the foreknowledge that none suitable would be found, knowing that He was about to create Woman. And He did so, I believe and according to commentary I’ve read, so that Adam could himself see and agree that there were none suitable, and could appreciate the significance of what was about to occur. Now because this was before the fall, Adam had no desire to sin. He agreed none were suitable. And in verse 23, Adam basically says “Alright, now she’s the one for me. Just what I was looking for.” He says “This at last …”, finally, after all that looking, here she is. Adam was then in agreement that God’s design was good, and a perfect fit, and by implication that anything outside of it would be sinful. So in this respect, Dr. Stevenson is a ways off, in that Adam himself didn’t have any desire to sin. But from the standpoint that God foreknew the fall would occur, and that mankind would later seek to pleasure himself in every sinful way imaginable, in a sense it was indeed because God knew there would be a propensity to sin after the fall, and wanted to reinforce, with Adam himself agreeing, His perfect design for marriage of one man and one woman. Verses 24-25 reiterate this fact, and specifically note that they were naked and unashamed. In other words, there was not yet any knowledge of sin, or desire to sin.
So Dr. Stevenson is not that far off on this one. And it actually is a very good argument against Theistic Evolution, because it reiterates the fact that the woman was a special creation, and that mankind is separate from and above the animals. In 1 Cor. 15:39, Paul reiterates that human flesh is uniquely different.
Overall, it’s not that bad. At first glance it may sound like he’s way out there. But if you study and consider it, he’s not far off at all, and makes a good overall point about significant flaws with big-E Theistic Evolution. Of course, I can’t speak for anything and everything else he’s ever said. But this one isn’t that bad.
It’s easy to read that account in Gen. 2 and get the impression that a lot of time passed, and then all the sudden as an afterthought God realized He’d messed up, and said “oh wait, it’s not good for this guy to be alone, I’d better fix it”, as a matter of how we use language and have a tendency to infer things from text. No, God didn’t mess up. The creation of woman was a part of the plan all along. And you have to read the scripture with that understanding in mind, as well as understanding God’s foreknowledge, and the condition of creation and mankind prior to the fall.