RE: A simple God question if I may.
February 14, 2017 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2017 at 9:57 am by Whateverist.)
(February 14, 2017 at 7:56 am)ignoramus Wrote: We all know about alot of the weird contradictions in the bible, etc.
I'm not questioning why God is stupid. I know he isn't because his character was written by man.
I'm just at a loss to explain the thinking by the authors/translators behind something very basic.
Why would an all powerful God who just created the whole universe need to pinch a rib from Adam to make Eve?
I know it's just a story, but what the hell is the moral from it? ---That God is all powerful except for making spare ribs?
I'd like a theist to enlighten me please.
In answer to the part I bolded, this part of the story was chosen to make the point that men should lord it over women and women should acquiesce to life as man's chattel. I wouldn't look much deeper than that. Here, political messaging has trumped internal coherence in terms of writer's purpose.