creation of Eve

[ilovejcsog]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

 

[JackRT]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

If you question a myth too closely in its details you might just miss the meaning.

 

[Halbhh]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

She is closer than skin deep to him, of the center of his chest, protecting his heart and breath. The two are as one.

 

[ilovejcsog]

"If you question a myth too closely in its details you might just miss the meaning."
That's a myth?

 

[JackRT]

"If you question a myth too closely in its details you might just miss the meaning."
That's a myth?

Yes.

 

[LaSorcia]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

He's dirt, but she's refined dirt?

 

[ilovejcsog]

She is closer than skin deep to him, of the center of his chest, protecting his heart and breath. The two are as one.

HALBHH==Thanks, I like your answer

 

[ilovejcsog]

Yes.

You believe there are myths in the bible? That's like saying there are lies in the bible. Are you joking??

 

[JackRT]

You believe there are myths in the bible? That's like saying there are lies in the bible. Are you joking??

I am quite serious and I am not at all suggesting that there are lies in the Bible. Jesus taught valuable lessons in parables. These are fictional stories that challenge our understandings and push us into thinking outside the box. There are three entire OT books that are extended parables. Genesis is partly parabolic. If it were entirely literal then why are there two contradictory creation stories in Genesis, not to mention the three creation stories elsewhere in Bible?

 

[Serving Zion]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

They would have been individuals rather than partners. There would have been competition rather than cooperation.

 

[Saint Steven]

If you question a myth too closely in its details you might just miss the meaning.

That's funny. You are typing with a lisp. lol

 

[Saint Steven]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

Here's why. (not created like the animals)

Genesis 2:23
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

He wanted to improve on what He already had .... ???

 

[Saint Steven]

He wanted to improve on what He already had .... ???

For some reason this reminded me that Adam had named all the animals, "... but no suitable helper was found." - Gen.2:20

No mention of whether there were already females of the animals, or not. So, if there were, Adam named all the animal couples, without noticing he had no mate. Or, the animal mates were created after Eve. I wonder which is more likely?

I'll wait while the jokes pour in.

 

[Saint Steven]

I am quite serious and I am not at all suggesting that there are lies in the Bible. Jesus taught valuable lessons in parables. These are fictional stories that challenge our understandings and push us into thinking outside the box. There are three entire OT books that are extended parables. Genesis is partly parabolic. If it were entirely literal then why are there two contradictory creation stories in Genesis, not to mention the three creation stories elsewhere in Bible?

That's curious. Tell us more.
Where are the three other creation stories in the Bible? Why don't you take Genesis literally? Do the two creation stories really contradict one another?

 

[2PhiloVoid]

For some reason this reminded me that Adam had named all the animals, "... but no suitable helper was found." - Gen.2:20

No mention of whether there were already females of the animals, or not. So, if there were, Adam named all the animal couples, without noticing he had no mate. Or, the animal mates were created after Eve. I wonder which is more likely?

I'll wait while the jokes pour in.

Ok. How about this one: It's a good thing that Adam didn't find a suitable helper among the animals.............................(drum roll)....................or all of us guys would be in a heap of trouble in the bedroom!!! [.....oh, no, 2PV! You didn't! --Oh, but I did.]

 

[Saint Steven]

My kids are already squirrely enough.

Where's @ilovejcsog ???

 

[JackRT]

That's curious. Tell us more.
Where are the three other creation stories in the Bible? Why don't you take Genesis literally? Do the two creation stories really contradict one another?

Whoa! One thing at a time.

Most modern bible scholars believe that Moses did not write the Torah. Based on their quite different writing styles and use of vocabulary, at least five authors (J,E,P,D and R) have been tentatively identified . "J" used Jehovah exclusively for God and may have been a person, perhaps a woman, in the court of Solomon about 950 BC. "E" used Elohim for God and wrote in the Northern Kingdom about 200 years later. "P" was concerned primarily with ritual and law and were probably priests writing during the Exile. "D" wrote the entire book of Deuteronomy about 625 BC. "R" were the redactors or editors who cobbled it all together. This whole process took place over some 500 years. The type of scholarship that led to the above conclusion is known as "critical biblical scholarship". In this context the word "critical" carries a narrow meaning ---- analytical and objective and not necessarily literal. It does not imply that this scholarship regards the Bible in any sort of pejorative way. In the case of the creation stories in Genesis, Genesis 1 was by the P author writing during the Exile while Genesis 2ff was by the J author writing about 350 years earlier.

 

[eleos1954]

Why do you think God didn't create Eve the way he created Adam?

so they would be one flesh ... if they were created individually then they would not be one flesh.

 

[ilovejcsog]

But now they are saying that it is a myth that she was made from his rib?