(Gen 4:1 KJV) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
The Hebrew word for ‘know’ is ‘yadda’, which according to Strongs dictionary: “is used in a great variety of senses, fig., lit., euphem. and infer. (including observation, care, recognition, and causation. instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)”
In this ‘biblical’ context, it is used for ‘sexual relations’ whether between a man and a woman or otherwise, since we also find this verse with reference to the men of Sodom who seemed mind bent on having sex (presumably anal) with the ‘angels’ that came to save Lot.
(Gen 19:5-8 KJV) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
This seems to be a common theme in the Bible, where “yadda” is used to explain away relationships at various levels of knowing. The initial reference being a spiritual connection between God and man:
(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
So, when did ‘knowing’ pass from a holy-whole connection to a physic-hole one?
Do all the human sexual issues stem from the aloneness of being disconnected from God and disconnected from love, truth and life or are all men, just ruled by their peni?
In our desire to reconnect, it seems we seek out various forms of connection - in the vain hope that it will lead us to some ‘promised’ love, stable relationship or ultimate blissful state or maybe just relieve the pain of our fallen state, temporarily (with a little pleasure).
Family, team, tribe, nation and religion provide powerful forms of un-aloneness, since shared alter-identities can be forged and shared, creating icon-able corporate god-like substitutes. This engineered unity binds members together by common behaviour and attributes. Can ‘love, truth and life’ be engineered? Most corporate babies, when beyond innocence - rebel in realisation to such engineering, whether by parents or tradition.
Sex should really be about the unified (loving) preservation (caring) and replication of (life) our natural ‘god-like’ identity upon this planet. Sadly it has been reduced to an act of physical connection for sensual tingles (pleasure and pain). Without ‘love and care’, sex is little more than friction with added twists of mechanical and chemical engineering.
(Mat 19:5-6 KJV) For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be ONE flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but ONE flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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