And why did he not just make a woman from scratch? It would make things a little less incestuous.
Yes, I did ask god, but he hasn't replied yet.
2006-09-04 17:25:44 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was busy running the universe...sometimes I take shortcuts so sue me.
2006-09-04 17:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You asked God and He hasn't replied? Oh ya, right, that's because He doesn't work on YOUR schedule.
Anyway, what makes you think it was cloning?? He used a rib probably the "floating rib" because if you leave the skin intact it WILL grow back.
Also, "wo-man" which means "out of man" was made from man because that was God's choice.
The incestuous idea you have... Adam married his rib... and you are concerned about his sons marrying sisters??
Anyway, Adam was created perfect. His sons and daughters genetics would have had NO mutations... therefore children would have been FINE.
Later God made the rule in Leviticus 16 that we CANNOT marry our next of kin (probably because that is when the genetics were getting worse with mutations)
2006-09-05 00:34:36 · answer #2 · answered by musingaloud 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be reading be edited condensed version of the Bible.
In the Torah God did make Adam a mate at his request the same way that IT did Adam . And she was called Lilith. she drove Adam crazy always questioning why she had to do things as Adam told her to do them.And told God the same things. Adam then requested a different mate one that was more tractable to his wishes.Lilith was taken out of the Garden of Eden and mated with another tribe that she found outside of EDEN.
Then GOD made Adam to sleep and took a rib to make a female of smaller stature than Adam. So the rib may have been broken in two to make this happen. And Adam was happier with his new mate and called her EVE.
2006-09-05 00:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No doubt knowing by direct revelation from God his Creator and Father how the woman came into existence, Adam was pleased to accept her as his wife, saying: “This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” even as was apparent to his very senses. As his complement Adam called his wife ’ish·shah′ (woman, or, literally, female man), “because from man this one was taken.” (Ge 2:18-23) Thereupon God pronounced his fatherly blessing upon both of them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” They were also to have the animal creation in subjection. (Ge 1:28) As a work of God’s hands, the woman was perfectly suited for being a complement to her husband Adam and also being a mother.
Adam knew that Jehovah God had created Eve for him to have as a companion, a person to work along side of him- as closely as a rib would be! This was truly a gift for him because, while Adam had been working dilligently and naming all the animals of the Earth, he had notice that Male and Female, God had made them and yet, he himself was male, with no female and he had become lonely. Wouldn't you have? So actually taking a part of you, a rib, how much closer to your heart can you get? God took a rib and moulded around it a counterpart for Adam, not a clone by any means of the imagination!! But a workmate, a partner and a helper. A different type of huma altogether now! One with beautiful curves, luxurious hair, luminous eyes that glowed with admiration for no one but him ( I mean, where was the competition?? He was the first and only man on Earth!! Hello Mama!!) They were two people, alone in a paradise with nothing to distract them and the work of being fruitful and filling the earth with their offspring, naming the animals and loving their heavenly creator for his generosity and kindness. What a lovely world!!
Eve, being of his own body, was easy to love. Knowing the she came from a part of him, made her closer to him. She was a PART of him and thus easy to take care of , to be watchful of her as the weaker vessel.
Does that help any?
2006-09-05 00:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by heatherlovespansies 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question you should be curious about ( as cloning is so simple in your opinion ) is how God created man out of dust ? You can`t clone something unless it already exist . Show us the way to create a man out of dust , and you will be the hero .
2006-09-05 00:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cus he was tired from creating the world and universe in 6 day's ..tho I have no clue he hasn't done anything since then..Seems to be a lazy temp with a bad attitude then an all powerful being ..huh..
2006-09-05 00:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
H must have not had much woman making experience.
Remember God was kind of backwards At the time he only spoke though burning bushes, or to certain people. Why notmake them both of the dust so they would have at least been equal in their own society.
2006-09-05 00:30:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because that story is just mythology. It's a metaphor for how humans evolved because we started out unintelligent (not as monkeys just not intelligent) and then we gained intelligence and with that came the knowledge of right and wrong. That doesn't mean the Bible isn't true it's just that parts of it are just people trying to explain how we got here, which is what mythology is.
2006-09-05 00:32:51 · answer #8 · answered by Reject187 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because people used to think women had more ribs than men. Even as late as Aristotle, no one had thought of the idea of simply counting them!
2006-09-05 00:32:32 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a misogynist. He didn't think women were fit to be created from scratch.
Although, to be fair, being created from scratch isn't much to brag about either - he made adam from dirt, after all.
2006-09-05 00:28:24 · answer #10 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a bs story to explain where humans came from before we knew about evolution. Don't be so gullible.
2006-09-05 00:31:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋