I was reading through Genesis again when it suddenly hit me:
If you look at the cosmos and how huge and vast it is, Christians believe that God created it all from nothing. All the stars, the planets, the galaxies, the dark matter, the nebulas, everything came out of nowhere from the will of God. In fact there was only one thing God couldn’t create from nothing. Was it a red giant star? Was it a Quasar? No…it was a woman.
Nothing against women, but I think they are indeed a lot less complex and less involved to create than a whole galaxy. But in Genesis 2:21 God creates Eve from Adam’s ribs.
And yes, I get it: Genesis was written by bronze age people who thought stars were the size of cantaloupes and thought the Earth was the center of a Universe that was very small. I get it. But for those who take the Adam and Eve story literally, this is a plot hole.
And I know someone will bring it up, yes, I know and concede that Islam does not teach this. In this one subject, and a few others, Islam is better than Christianity, even though it too is mostly false. I
Maybe he didn’t need to use Adam at all. Maybe he did it to test your reading comprehension skills knowing you would interpret it literally in a pompous attempt to outwit him. When it was a all a joke at your expense. God is ribbing you!
Maybe he didn’t need to use Adam at all. Maybe he did it to test your reading comprehension skills knowing you would interpret it literally in a pompous attempt to outwit him. When it was a all a joke at your expense. God is ribbing you!
I mean, there are a lot more inconsistencies, and more significant ones than this.
God created everything in 6 days…a time frame that didn’t exist before there was even an earth to rotate and give rise to a “day”. And even if that time before a rotating earth existed was measured and applied to the pre-earth period, time *still* would have functioned extremely differently, and differently depending on perspective, since time is relative and changes depending on things like speed and location. Days are also different depending on what timeframe of earth one is talking about. Today a day is 24 hours, but a billion-and-a-half years ago it was 18 hours and 40 minutes.
These types of conflicts are usually just hand waved away as parables by most Christians. And for those who believe in these stories literally, logic and deduction are irrelevant, as are the beliefs themselves, all that matters to them is believing whatever it is without questioning.
Edit: changed an i to an o.
Anyone with a Technical job will tell you that its easier to create something from a template. He already had Adam, why not take part of him and tweak the code a bit to make Eve?
Work smarter not harder.
Where does it say that god needed to make a woman out of a man’s rip?
It’s a story and it isn’t a story about how one fine objective day a man’s rib turned into a totally new and fundamentally different aspect of the same species.
Why would you assume that he *couldn’t*, rather than that he simply didn’t want to? The obvious purpose of that detail in the story is that Eve was “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”, or in other words that man and woman were meant to complete each other because one was literally created from a piece removed from the other. Why not just say God wanted it to be that way rather than to make them two completely separate creations?