Finally, God created man in his image, male and female. Only then, after creating mankind, male and female, in his image, did God take stock of the whole of creation, of everything he had made, and pronounce it all “very good.”.. That’s Genesis 1. Now in Genesis 2 we read about the creation of mankind as male and female as a two-stage process, first the man and then the woman. And while this process is incomplete — while man is incomplete — it’s “not good.”... Everything up till now has been “good,” but for mankind to be “good,” there must be male and female.