3 Don,

You said:

On the “not good” I understand that in the sense of “non-functional”.  The human alone could not function in all ways God intended.  Gen 2 is about 2 lacks, the lack of a human to irrigate the land, which God addresses with the human, and the lack of the human to be fully functional like the rest of creation, which God addresses by splitting the Adam/human into male and female.

I mostly agree with you here.  “Not good” is certainly in some sense “non-functional” since a single man cannot reproduce himself.  I think it goes past “function” though because men need women for more than just procreation.  Women provide a complementary part of thinking, reasoning, relationship and intimacy and a man alone or men alone do not have.  There is some sense of “lack” that the woman provides the answer to the “lack”.  I will be bringing this up in my next post so I won’t go on about the Adam splitting issue here.  By the way, “Adam splitting” is very punny 🙂