(February 14, 2017 at 9:56 am)Whateverist Wrote:(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.
If 'god' was so smart he would have given all men the same sized dick and it would have saved a lot of trouble in this world.