what would religion be like if Lilith was still seen the wife of Adam?

Question

god created adam and Lilith from the dust of the ground to be adams equal. sh then left him, so god created eve from adams rib to be subserviant to adam.

if the creation story had never added eve as adams wife, what would religion be like, would men and women be equal.

Answer 1

You must realize that most Christians have no clue who Lilith was because they have no clue of their origins.

If Adam's first wife, Lilith, had hung around and Adam had put up with her, religion would probably be a lot more tolerable.

Answer 2

My character Paul, who is married to a lovely woman named Lilith, would be terribly annoyed if she left him to shack up with some guy named Adam. :)

As for religion--I doubt if it would be significantly different. Lilith would be needed to serve the same dramatic purpose as Eve does--to further the plot, and get humanity out of Eden. Dramatically, Eve fulfils the same purpose as God does when he inflicts the residents of the Tower of Babel with a multitude of different languages--it moves the plot along. So the Judeo-Christian religion would be essentially the same.

It is amazing how much like a novel the Bible is, once you sit down and analyze it. It is even more amazing when you see that Eve's disobedience of God is absolutely necessary to the resolution of the story. Without Eve's action, there is no need whatsoever for Christ.

It really is too bad that it wasn't written as a novel in the first place; it would have made a brilliant one. Instead, it's a group-written novel, so parts of it don't really mesh well together. It needs a good editor.

Answer 3

Do you mean Christianity in particular or just religion in general?

I'm not sure that it would have much bearing on other religions, certainly not mine as our main Gods are female anyway. In Christianity it would show that women were equal from the start if Lilith was Adam's wife as she was made from the Earth as he was whereas Eve was made from Adam's rib.

Men and women were created equal and are equal. Regardless of how unfairly women or men are treated this never changes the natural law of men and women's equality. We could not reproduce if we did not have both sexes.

Answer 4

H3917
לילית
lîylîyth
BDB Definition:
1) “Lilith”, name of a female goddess known as a night demon who haunts the desolate places of Edom
1a) might be a nocturnal animal that inhabits desolate places
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3915
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1112

nīt´mon-stẽr (לילית, līlīth; Septuagint ὀνοκενταῦρος, onokentaúros; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) lamia):

(5.) Heb. lilith, “screech owl” (Isa_34:14, marg. and R.V., “night monster”). The Hebrew word is from a root signifying “night.” Some species of the owl is obviously intended by this word. It may be the hooting or tawny owl (Syrnium aluco), which is common in Egypt and in many parts of Palestine. This verse in Isaiah is “descriptive of utter and perpetual desolation, of a land that should be full of ruins, and inhabited by the animals that usually make such ruins their abode.”

H3915
לילה ליל ליל
layil lêyl layelâh
lah'-yil, lale, lah'-yel-aw
From the same as H3883; properly a twist (away of the light), that is, night; figuratively adversity: - ([mid-]) night (season).

Answer 5

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If it is true I think that men would be more acceptable as viewing women as their equals.

Answer 6

Lilith never existed.

Answer 7

Lilith never existed.....

Answer 8

You DO know that lilith and Eve were the first lesbians, don't you?

Answer 9

It would still all be based on myths, like Adam and Eve, and Lillith............

Answer 10

"You" were not there to validate the story that "You" tell! What you "think" is true is what you will accept as true, even if it is absolutely false!