Doctors of the Church and other Saints drew a beautiful correlation between the piercing of Jesus' side by the soldier, and the life of Eve coming from Adam’s side. We read in Genesis 2:22 that the life of Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs. In John 19:34 we read that once one of the soldiers pierced His side there immediately flowed out blood and water. The life of Eve came from Adam's side, but the true mother of all living, the Church, was born by the piercing of His side.

Commenting on the piercing of the Jesus’ side St. John Chrysostom wrote:

““There flowed from his side water and blood”. Beloved, do not pass over this mystery without thought; it has yet another hidden meaning, which I will explain to you. I said that water and blood symbolized baptism and the holy eucharist. From these two sacraments the Church is born: from baptism, “the cleansing water that gives rebirth and renewal through the Holy Spirit”, and from the holy eucharist. Since the symbols of baptism and the Eucharist flowed from his side, it was from his side that Christ fashioned the Church, as he had fashioned Eve from the side of Adam Moses gives a hint of this when he tells the story of the first man and makes him exclaim: “Bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh!” As God then took a rib from Adam’s side to fashion a woman, so Christ has given us blood and water from his side to fashion the Church. God took the rib when Adam was in a deep sleep, and in the same way Christ gave us the blood and the water after his own death.”

St. Athanasius commented:

“He was pierced in no other part but His side, whence flowed blood and water; that just as deception had come through the woman formed from the side of Adam, so from the side of the second Adam might come the redemption and cleansing of the first--redemption by blood, and cleansing by water.”

St. Cyprian commented:

“If Adam was a figure of Christ, the sleep of Adam was the death of Christ Who was to fall asleep in death; that in the injury of His side might be figured the Church, the true mother of the living”

St. Ambrose commented:

“There came forth water and blood, poured out for the life of the world. This life of the world is the rib of Christ, the rib of the second Adam. For the first Adam was made into a living soul, the last Adam into a life-giving spirit, the last Adam is Christ; the rib of Christ is the life of the Church. From His side water flowed and blood. . . Why from the side? Because whence came the fault, thence also comes grace, the fault came through woman, and grace through Our Lord Jesus Christ”

I have lurked this forum for a few months and was filled with joy to see most of the posters have good instincts and don’t believe our ancestors evolved from apes. I wanted to post these commentaries and reaffirm that All Scripture is absolutely inerrant, there are no errors. God is the primary author of Genesis and all of the other books that make up the Bible. It is a modernist deception to imply otherwise.