Jesus and Mary are the new Adam and Eve

This evening I attended an all Catholic college student bible study. It was kind of small tonight... there were only five of us. It was very informal being the first time we met. We spent most of the evening talking about what we would want to study, well at least that was the plan... Instead we got on topics like theology of the body and the second creation story (but only because they found out I had never read it before.... I've always kind of skipped that one after reading the first one...), we also talked about cremation and how our souls are supposed to reunite with our bodies after death... just random topics like that.
While talking about the creation story the "leader" had us turn to the first chapter of John. He showed us how John used the format of the creation story to show even more about how Jesus and Mary are the new Adam and Eve... It was very interesting. Especially when the verse that goes along with the sixth day of creation happens to be right before he does his first miracle. He looks right at Mary and says "woman" just like how in Genesis it states that God made " woman." I don't know. It was something I never really thought about before. It is very cool to me.... Below I put the two different passages, the creation story and the first chapter of John if you want to read it for yourselves to compare the two.

Creation story

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Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed.

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Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.

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So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.

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¹ Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens--

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while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil,

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but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground--

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² the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.

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³ Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed.

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Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.

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⁴ A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches.

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The name of the first is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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The gold of that land is excellent; bdellium and lapis lazuli are also there.

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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush.

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The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.

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The LORD God gave man this order: "You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden

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except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die."

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The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him."

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So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.

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The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.

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So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

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The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man,

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⁵ the man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken."

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⁶ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.

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The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.

John 1-2

1 In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him.

4 What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men;

5 and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.

6 A man came, sent by God. His name was John.

7 He came as a witness, to bear witness to the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

8 He was not the light, he was to bear witness to the light.

9 The Word was the real light that gives light to everyone; he was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world that had come into being through him, and the world did not recognise him.

11 He came to his own and his own people did not accept him.

12 But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name

13 who were born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself.

14 The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John witnesses to him. He proclaims: 'This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me has passed ahead of me because he existed before me.'

16 Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us, received -- one gift replacing another,

17 for the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

19 This was the witness of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, 'Who are you?'

20 He declared, he did not deny but declared, 'I am not the Christ.'

21 So they asked, 'Then are you Elijah?' He replied, 'I am not.' 'Are you the Prophet?' He answered, 'No.'

22 So they said to him, 'Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?'

23 So he said, 'I am, as Isaiah prophesied: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord. Make his paths straight!'

24 Now those who had been sent were Pharisees,

25 and they put this question to him, 'Why are you baptising if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?'

26 John answered them, 'I baptise with water; but standing among you -- unknown to you-

27 is the one who is coming after me; and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandal.'

28 This happened at Bethany, on the far side of the Jordan, where John was baptising.

29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

30 It was of him that I said, "Behind me comes one who has passed ahead of me because he existed before me."

31 I did not know him myself, and yet my purpose in coming to baptise with water was so that he might be revealed to Israel.'

32 And John declared, 'I saw the Spirit come down on him like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

33 I did not know him myself, but he who sent me to baptise with water had said to me, "The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is to baptise with the Holy Spirit."

34 I have seen and I testify that he is the Chosen One of God.'

35 The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past,

36 and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God.'

37 And the two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.

38 Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, 'What do you want?' They answered, 'Rabbi' -- which means Teacher -- 'where do you live?'

39 He replied, 'Come and see'; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

40 One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother and say to him, 'We have found the Messiah' -- which means the Christ-

42 and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas' -- which means Rock.

43 The next day, after Jesus had decided to leave for Galilee, he met Philip and said, 'Follow me.'

44 Philip came from the same town, Bethsaida, as Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, 'We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.'

46 Nathanael said to him, 'From Nazareth? Can anything good come from that place?' Philip replied, 'Come and see.'

47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming he said of him, 'There, truly, is an Israelite in whom there is no deception.'

48 Nathanael asked, 'How do you know me?' Jesus replied, 'Before Philip came to call you, I saw you under the fig tree.'

49 Nathanael answered, 'Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel.'

50 Jesus replied, 'You believe that just because I said: I saw you under the fig tree. You are going to see greater things than that.'

51 And then he added, 'In all truth I tell you, you will see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending over the Son of man.'

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,

2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited.

3 And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, 'They have no wine.'

4 Jesus said, 'Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.'