by FrightMare 21 Replies latest jw friends
Actually all Adam said was "Bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman, because from man this one was taken." lol Adam wasn't real romantic.... I have to say I like Yerusalyim's explanation a WHOLE lot better
Just my take on it...
Don't you think it's strange that God supposedly created millions of species male and female and somehow forgot to create Eve until the last minute.
Or was he being a bit sadistic and was waiting for Adam to notice.
"Hey God, what's this for?"
Here is the answer to your question, as explained by Cecil Adams, World's Smartest Human....
Do women have an extra rib cuz Eve got one of Adam's?
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Dear Cecil:
Is it true that women have two more ribs than men do? If so, could this be the origin of the biblical story about how Eve was made from Adam's rib? And while we're on the subject, what does the word "spare" refer to in "spare ribs"? --Bobby V., Chicago
Cecil replies:
All God's chillun got twelve ribs, Bob. The origin of the Adam's rib story isn't known for sure, but some think it may stem from a Sumerian joke.
Here's the dope: the Sumerians had a myth about a consortium of gods who were busily turning the land of Dilmun into a paradise when one of their number, Enki the water-god, committed a breach of etiquette by nibbling on a newly-created plant. Ninhursag, the earth-goddess, put a curse on Enki, and he fell ill as eight of his vital organs failed. Ninhursag was eventually persuaded to relent, but to cure Enki she had to create eight different new deities to cure each of Enki's ailing organs.
The story bears some resemblance to, and in fact may have been the inspiration for, the Hebrew story of Genesis: the creation, the eating of the forbidden fruit, etc. But here's where it gets really interesting: the Hebrew name "Eve" means, approximately, "she who makes live." In Sumerian, the word for "make live" is ti, which is also the Sumerian word for "rib."
Thus, the name of the goddess created to cure Enki's aching rib, "Nin-Ti," may have been a Sumerian pun, meaning both "The Lady of the Rib" and "The Lady Who Makes Live." The joke was lost when the story--itself much altered--entered the Hebrew tradition, leaving only the enigmatic association of Eve and Adam's rib.
As for spare ribs--known as "sparribs" in the relatively terse seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--they take their name from the Middle Low German word "rippspeer," which eventually became "ribbesper." It was the custom of the Middle Low Germans to sit around their fires roasting pig ribs on a spit or, as they preferred to call it, a "sper" (a word that survives in English as "spar," as in the rib supports of a ship).
Somewhere in the sixteenth century, the two elements of the German word became transposed as it entered English--"ribbesper" became "sparrib." As time marched on, the excessively literal English insisted on disconnecting the "spar," thinking it came from the adjective "spare." Thus another boneheaded blunder became part of the English language, confusing you and keeping guys like me in business.
--CECIL ADAMS
lol good point ballistic....poor Adam had to sit there and watch all the animals having fun...and then practically beg God to give him his own playmate...
I don’t believe we came from apes
Neither do evolutionists, actually.
Some of you guys are such deadheads, but that's ok, I am also. But especially deadhead is the one who spoke about God forgetting to create woman. Here's why:
When God took a rib from Adam, does the account say that he made a penis and testicles for him also. No! The sex tools were already in place. Obviously, for some unknown reason, it was God's plan to create man before woman, although having the sketch of woman in mind all along.
Frightmare,
I thought I was providing a reasonable answer to yet another of your insipid questions, sorry you're not genetically capable of understanding that.
And no, I was never a JW and I doubt you were either.
Silverleaf
"Hey God, what's this for?"
Ballistic, is that why you're looking down in your pic????
Just kidding, you know I love you!
Wonder why God waited so long to make Eve? Maybe he was waiting to see if Adam liked one of the animals.
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
Well, I guess I'm here to feed the troll. Here's your daily ration of shit, Frightmare. Eat it. Bon Appetite!
TR
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
—Edmund Burke
FrightMare ok, please try to figure out English humour!
