What is the Christian veiw of Lilith?

Question

I mean do Christians generally believe she was Adam's first wife?

Answer 1

Early Jewish mythology of Adams demonic wife, Extremely unlikely and most likely the imagination of a bored loser wishing to have the same for himself

Answer 2

Lilith Christianity

Answer 3

Well she is only mentioned once in the Bible I think. The story about Lilith, I really do not know what to think of her. I hear tell she is kinda a demon now. She was Adams first wife from what I can gather, but demanded to be on top when making love and was bossy. So God cursed her because she wanted to be above Adam. I need to do a lot more research on this but that is all I have gathered so far. Sorry, I know that was not any great help, but that's how I see her as of now. I do oddly enough like the name Lilith, hum, maybe that's why I am kinda attracted to dominant women in a way. =)

Answer 4

Since only the Torah (OT) was fully written and gathered (though still changing) at the time of Jesus' life, that is the only part of the Judaic scripture that made it into the official Christian tenets.

It is very likely that Jesus knew quite a bit of the Oral Law and maybe even some of the other stories related to the Torah. So little of what he actually said is written down that it is hard to tell. Christians often mistake his parables for originals when they were just not part of the OT (but would appear later in other Jewish books when they were written).

Though Martin Luther included the Talmud in his Bible as the Middle Testament I do not think that the story of Lilith was ever included as even Apocrypha in any version of the Christian Bible.

Answer 5

There are un-Biblical legends that Adam had a wife before Eve who was named Lilith. The legends vary significantly, but they all essentially agree that Lilith left Adam because she did not want to submit to him. According to the legends, Lilith was an evil, wicked woman who committed adultery with Satan and produced a race of evil creatures. None of this is true. There is no Biblical basis whatsoever for these concepts. There is no one in the Bible named Lilith.

The passage most often pointed to as evidence for Lilith is Isaiah 34:14, which in the NRSV reads, "there too Lilith shall repose." This is a poor translation. Every other major translation of the Bible reads something to the effect of "night creature" or "screech owl." Even if "demon monster named Lilith" was the proper translation of the Hebrew word, Adam is nowhere even hinted at in this passage or its context. Whatever the Lilith was, it is not given any connection whatsoever to Adam or Creation.

Another commonly used support for Lilith is the differing Creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2. Some claim that the woman in Genesis 1 was Lilith, with the woman in Genesis 2 being Eve. This is completely ludicrous. Rather, Genesis chapter 2 is a "closer look" at the creation of Adam and Eve as recorded in Genesis chapter 1. The Bible specifically says that Adam and Eve were the first human beings ever created (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:18-25). This "Lilith" myth is popular in some radical feminist movements because Lilith is an example of a woman refusing to submit to male headship. While there are myths outside of the Word of God regarding Lilith, her complete absence from Scripture demonstrates that she is nothing more than a myth.

Recommended Resource: Biblical Creationism by Henry Morris.

Answer 6

Lilith is the same as the Babylonian Ishtar she was called the goddess and queen of heaven and earth. Something Christians attribute to Mary the so called mother of Jesus. The truth is that Christianity is a religion based on the solar system because Ishtar is connected with the constellation Virgo.

Answer 7

I've been a pastor for over 30 years and three of those years I was pastoring in an extemely Jewish area, and I never heard of Lilith until I got onto various religious Q & A places on the Internet during the last few years.

That said, Lilith is not mentioned in the Scriptures, so as far as I am concerned, she did not exist.

Pastor Art

Answer 8

I was a Christian, born and raised. I studied for many years, went to many classes, and quite honestly, had never heard of Lilith.

Until I studied Judism.

While most Christians will not admit it, and many quite honestly cannot give a good answer other than "Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies", despite the fact that Jesus said in the New Testament that he didn't come to change one jot or tittle of the Old Law, have little idea of Judism, Jewish law, or a host of other things. They go ignored as a part of Christianity's supression of Judaism as their root.

Here is a great example that you can do. Ask any Christian who is a true believer. Ask him if God commanded man and woman to be fruitful and multiply, and does that apply to him. In all likelihood, he will say yes. Then ask him if the Ten Commandments are God's word, and do they apply today. In all likelihood, they will say yes.

Then ask him if he had Passover this past year. He will dodge it. He will say blah, blah blah. Then ask him if if it the goal of all Christians to live a life as Christ lived. He will say yes. Then be kind enough to remind him that Jesus was a Jew, and that the Last Supper was most likely a Jewish sedar, a Passover meal. Then ask him why he didn't have a sedar. He will become rather agitated. Trust me, I have had this conversation when I was a Christian studying Judaism.

Oh, now while I have not fully converted to Judism, I am working towards it. I like that Jews believe that all righteous persons have a stake in the world to come. I would rather work hard to be a righteous person rather than label myself.

Oh, and Hayden, Lilith is NOT mentioned in the Bible with Adam. It is part of Jewish mysticism. The mention of Lilith was worked into something that Jewish scholars tried to explain in the Word as a discrepency in the Prophets and the Torah.

Answer 9

Lilith comes into some very early Jewish traditions.
As a general statement, it is fair to say that Xians do not believe that Lilith existed. As I say, she exists as Adam's first wife in Hebrew tradition, and was expelled as "a witch".

Answer 10

lilith was to be adams first wife
the other lore is a lilith is to take care of the animals .