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[dreamer_easy]

Great thinkers over the ages must surely have tackled this question. In Genesis, why does God create male and female animals (and plants, for that matter), but at first, only a male human being?

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[elsaf]

1. He forgot.
2. Making all those male and female beasts, birds and fish wore Him out. He only had enough mojo left for a man.
3. You expect Him to think of everything?
4. He thought the guy could get by just wanking, and that way He'd save half the cost of upkeep.
5. Hot man on sheep action was the original plan. It was only after a while that God realized this wasn't going to result in any children, and he'd have to keep creating another man every 50 years or so.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

... what the hell would prelapsarian Adam *do* on a date???

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

*yiff*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

It was a testing phase to see how long guys could go without whining that they weren't getting any.

[irritant01.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I wonder if he had to do some "retrofitting" on Adam after deciding to have two sexes? Or did he create Adam with a pee-pee from Day One?

I ain't no biblical scholar or nuthin' but didn't Adam have to ask for Eve to be created? Shouldn't God have seen that one coming?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

No no - God realised that it wasn't good for Adam to be all alone. Check out Genesis 2:18, from the KJV:

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477

Ah, actually, revisiting the text solves my problem. Famously, there are two mutually contradictory stories in Genesis 1 and 2; in Chapter 1, Adam and Eve are created simultaneously, and in Chapter 2, the animals are created after Adam.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

... although none of this really addresses the pee-pee issue.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

So he'd appreciate Eve when she finally showed up, why else? :-)

No, really, I think it had a lot to do with having the first human being experience aloneness. I mean, even walking with God every day, Adam still wanted someone like him--it just took him a while to figure it out. When we're alone, we appreciate the world around us; when we're finally with others, we appreicate them and the world more by virtue of their presenece.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

What she said. On both counts. :)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

How come Woman never got that experience? She had a mate as soon as she opened her eyes.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Because she was less likely to take her partner for granted? It's all guesswork here: the passage doesn't tell us.

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...maybe God wanted the human to fill God's own role in the Garden, like a 'keeper' or 'caretaker'? And hence only made one human, 'cos there was only one of God.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I reckon that's my favourite answer so far. :-)

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

more to the point, why would god, in Genesis, create Gabriel, Banks, Hackett and Rutherford, only to gradually replace them all, one by one, with Phill Collins?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I think you mean Collins, Collins and Collins.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

He saw a gap that needed filling.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Clearly that happened AFTER that whole "lost rib" thing.

(Yes, I know, horribly rude, but they're talking about humping sheep further up the page!)

[gaspode.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he needed someone to build him that home by the sea ??

Sorry - That was a very sad geeky Genesis comment - but I had to go and play the album after seeing the icon and the songs going round and round in my head

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*grin* I atcually listened to the whole thing the other day. Sheer brilliance. (If you skip "Illegal Alien". ;-)

[davidbrider.livejournal.com]

Well, you always do a rough draft before the finished masterpiece.

:o)

David.