Kris Vallotton is the co-founder of the School of the Prophets and Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church. In a recent post, we covered how in one 20-minute sermon, he went on a tear of theological fabrication, claiming that when Adam named the animals in the garden, he was “procreating” and co-creating” with God– and that we can do the same thing.
Then he went on to teach some ‘little god theology’ by claiming we are made after the “God-kind.” Finally, he offers this truly bizarre interpretation of Genesis, saying that God made Adam both male and female and that Adam became ‘Just male’ only after God took the ‘female’ part of him out by creating Eve from his rib.
Even more brazenly, he claims that in the same way Adam’ procreated’ with God and helped ‘create’ the animals and their nature, he also ‘co-created’ Eve. He explains:
The first point I’d like to make in this conference really is that God made you after his kind and God made Adam– the word ‘Adam’ and the word ‘man,’ Hebrew word, It’s the same exact word. He made Adam, both male and female, as you know.
How many know God’s not a man? God’s both male and female, and if you oppress women, then you reduce the revelation of God. (unintelligible) Because God’s not a man, it took a man and a woman to demonstrate the revelation of who God is.
…Isn’t it interesting that Genesis 1, God said, ‘Let us make man look in our image, male and female, he made them’ and then chapter 2…God seems to like say, Okay, let me just go back and tell you exactly how I did this….How many know God created man and he created the animals from dirt?… it’s the reason why your DNA is so close to every other creature on earth, because God used the same raw materials.
I’d like to suggest that Adam wasn’t alone in (the garden) in the sense that there was no other Adams around, but then he was lonely. Follow me for a minute. I’m saying that God wasn’t looking for someone to procreate with, (when he named the animals who passed by him) God was looking for somebody to solve his loneliness with.
We continue:
Because Adam was made with a god-hole. And God came in the cool of the garden. In other words, when God was gone, Adam was alone. He didn’t have anybody who related to like he related to God. So what does God do about that? God puts Adam to sleep.
“So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon man, and he slept, and God took one of his ribs and closed up his flesh there, and the Lord God fashioned into a woman, the rib which you take you for the man, and God brought her to the man and the man said ‘this is now a bone of my bones and flesh, my flesh, she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of the man.'”
Where was the woman? She was taken out of the man. The woman was in the man. There’s a few men in here. You can’t get in touch with your feminine side, because you don’t have one. The woman was taken out of the man. So where was the woman? She was in the man.
So God took Adam and said, ‘Okay, here’s how I’m going to make sure you no longer feel lonely. I’m going to take you and I’m going to break you in half. I’m gonna take the feminine side of you, and I’m going to remove it from you’.
And when Adam woke up, I’d like to suggest that he immediately knew that something was missing because he was both male and female at one point. How do we know that? Because the woman was taken out of the man.
I‘d like to suggest that Genesis 1, ‘female’ is not the Genesis 2 woman. That Adam was both male and female, and the woman was taken out of the man, so now Adam needs the woman the same way he needs God. He’s not complete without her. When Adam wake up…and looks at the woman…he sees what he’s missing…because he used to have it.
Kris concludes by saying that Adam co-created the woman with God, in the same way he co-created the animals.
And immediately he goes, ‘this is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of a man,’ And then he begins to prophesy to her… I think that Adam was prophesying who will pursue who. And he begins to do what he did with the animals. He begins to prophesy, he begins to co-create with God the woman. And he’s saying that men will be the pursuer, the woman will be pursued, the woman was born to be adored, and he begins to prophesy about this other part of him.
