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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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[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.