[/QUOTE]Blackleaf;1847152] Not originally, they didn't. Adam was created first, and he created Eve out of his rib.[/QUOTE]
Before I begin, a disclaimer on two counts is in order and I do hope you read through to the end, sorry it is longer than planned:
First: I respect men and women and believe they are created to collaborate & compliment their strengths and attributes. Nor do I claim to know exactly how the first humans came about. However, male and female should ideally work together because both can't live without the other gender on earth. (Although that is an actual debate in itself, as I will bring into this argument the scientific evidence of female mammal cloning.
Second: I have great respect for the ancient manner of putting some thoughts and words on parchments telling a story of an ancient peoples - scriptures, Hebrew, Christian, Jewish or otherwise ~ in addition to admiration for those peoples from all ancient times who managed to live in harsh environments and still find ways to rise above adversities. And I do not wish to enter a huge debate that has been expounded upon by scholars, biblical and otherwise for over 2000 years as so much as been said, refuted, clarified or found wanting or missing and again scrutinized to the nth degree with many side stories and theories. That topic is inexhaustible (obviously) and not the type of in depth discussion for casual forum.
So you appear to say that Adam was first and woman came from man as if this proves, closes and refutes the statement that men come from women.
- Why did God alter his beautiful and miraculous design of a womans body and the order of Creation in Genesis Chapter one to authors changing the story centuries later in Genesis Chapter 2? ~ which gives a huge fable about Adam being the "birth" person of human life? A full grown human woman no less, out of his side rib.
- But facts of human physiology or archeology up to this very day will prove that a man never birthed a whole woman, nor did a woman birth a whole adult woman, much less a man birthing a baby.
- We all know where babies are formed and come from!
- Gen 1 states that male and female were created in OUR image and they would rule over all else.
- God/Higher power or form apparently designed women to birth the human races from the beginning and for all time. No manner of tampering will ever change that truth ~ which chapter Gen 2, 3 serve to denigrate and subjugate women. No amount of tampering with words or annihilating women has changed the FACT that women birth babies (ergo all humans). Ergo men come from women, not the other way around.
- Why did god only perform this feat of a man birthing a whole woman one time only?
- Further, the Adam story is still a contradiction to Gen 1 regardless due to the order of creation. God creates male and female in OUR image and likeness after animals etc and tells them to rule over all. The second chapter totally changes the order of creation leaving adam in a barren land and god creates animals after? 1st creation story says God creates all things first and male and female are last. So there is a big mix up and to be highly questioned there alone.
- It seems God changes minds over who will birth babies? or what?
- Sadly, those ancient ignorant fables kept women bound to men in unhealthy ways for the most part.
- And many men and laws (not all men for there are many good men) have been abusing/using/justifiying those words to control women ever since.
- Even Moses (a revered prophet and guidee of much goodness) commanded killing off innocent women and children and commanding virgins be captured, and hence captured to be wives by force and violence- hence rape. Numbers 31 tells that story of the lack of value for girls or women. Many more like it in the OT.
- So, without getting into huge treatise, which has been said and done and one can discover, study and discern for themselves -
- Would you agree that women form babies in their WOMBS and birth babies? and then do those babies in turn grow into adult men or women? (takes about 18 years and sometimes some never really mature to adulthood - another topic).
- For further points of interest.
- Cloning proves that females can reproduce themselves without the aid of male sperm.
- Funny how that bible fable turns tables in that a female bone dna can recreate another life. Again this debunks the male bone rib theory quite neatly.
- Now God/higher power made that design of a female physiology and mind, body, spirit and if God made perfection, then why did God change his/her mind from Chapter 1 to Chapter 2 (which by the way was written centuries later when the middle eastern tribes were warring with the peaceful primarily female led agrarian societies) circ. 6000 bc. Etc.
- Further, Jesus never directly names the first humans as Adam and Eve, nor does Jesus refer to Adams superiority over Eve.
- Nor does Jesus mention that a woman is a "helpmate" or a kind of afterthought to help out a man.
- You have provided no proof that a man/male skeletal or otherwise birthed a whole human woman - which was pulled out of his side.
- So it cannot be used in a debate about male superiority being Gods will., nor can one say that Adam came first or that woman came from man.
- Ideally a Christian looks to the OT as a form of historical wanderings and learnings of ancient people discovering nature versus God ~ a lot of myths and fables form a part of those ancient bronze age writings and thoughts. (The NT is more advanced but still axial age impressions).
Ergo, the statement stands unrefuted, unless you can provide some solid evidence to indicate otherwise:
Male (babies) who become men ~ come originally from WOMBAN (WOMAN) not the other way around.
It does appear a self evident truth, but at same time we leave it up to true life, experience and research for each individual to discern.
Side note: A Christian ideally should look only to what JESUS says on this matter. (Note, I did not refer to Paul, or anyone else, only Jesus because Jesus is the final authority according to Christians). Caps mine.
Instead Jesus says. Mark 10:6-9
"Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male AND female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh."
I believe that hypotheses has been widely accepted as being Bullsh*t!
You are so much more to the point than I am!