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May 9, 2022 · In Genesis 2:21–22, after causing Adam to fall into a deep sleep, God took a rib out of the man and used it to form the woman. So Adam and Eve were of the same substance and were connected physically.
May 9, 2024 · God used Adam’s rib to form Eve—He used existing tissue and did not “start from scratch”—to show that Adam and Eve were of the same substance; she was made from the same “stuff” and was a bearer of God’s image and likeness, just as Adam was (see Genesis 1:27).
The Book of Genesis tells us that God created woman from one of Adam’s ribs. But our author says that the traditional translation of the Biblical text is wrong: Eve came from a different part of Adam’s body—his baculum.
Jul 28, 2015 · The Book of Genesis states God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground, and then Eve was created from one of Adam’s ribs—but was it his rib?
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“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him’” (Genesis 2:18). So, God is going to finish his creation so as to make it completely good. That’s the setup at the beginning of the paragraph: “I’m going to make this completely good. It’s not yet finished. I will make him a helper fit for h...
“So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs” — the word can mean side, so not from his foot and not from his head, but from his side — “and closed up its place with flesh” (Genesis 2:21). So, he really did surgery. He opened the skin and took out a rib, and he closed it. “And the rib that the L...
Now, our friend asks about the significance of the woman being made from the man’s side or rib and not from the ground, and I would say that’s not an incidental part of the text. She’s right to ask. To see the significance, we need to follow what’s happening. First, Adam is said to be alone, and that’s not good, so the text is designed to tell us h...
So, having made that crystal clear, God puts Adam to sleep and really does surgery. He opens his side, takes a rib, closes up the side, and then it says that God built the rib from his side into a woman, and the word is ishah, and the generic word for Adam is ish — man, ish. Then it says — and here he uses the very same words from earlier when he b...
Then the next verse takes this complementary, perfect correspondence into marriage and says that, therefore, because they were made bone of bone and flesh of flesh, this profound oneness of nature is going to be found in marriage. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Gen...
May 6, 2021 · How did Adam know that Eve had been formed out of his rib/bone? Genesis 2:21-23: "So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man."
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Jan 8, 2022 · Then, with the imagery of a rib taken out of Adam’s side—“bone of [his] bone, and flesh of [his] flesh” would describe their unity—He created a woman whom Adam named Eve, ‘because she was the mother of all living.’ (See Genesis chapters 1–3.)”
