RE: Creation Muesum
October 30, 2015 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2015 at 9:21 pm by Bob Kelso.)
(October 30, 2015 at 8:46 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Didn't read the part in the bible where man was created both male and female? Did you not also read the part where Eve was taken and formed out of Adam? Eve was a byproduct of Adam, she wasn't part of the original creation.
Reading comprehension 101
No, I tend to utilize Occam's Razor.
When I was a Christian this read, and was explained, as a general explanation of what happened on a larger timeline;
Quote:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number;fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
... and this read as the actual process of developing woman from the first man;
Quote:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
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.”
Now between Adam being male and female at the same time, and eve being formed from man's rib as explained... the latter seems to be the interpretation that assumes less. Honestly it just sets the tone for how the bible deals with women; as afterthoughts, property and inferior helpers.
Now if it's your fetish to see this as some gender-bender then that's your business, but the vast majority of Christianity begs to differ. That said it's all bullshit of course.