from the foot that would be a picture of him controling her and from the head its a picture of Eve cant rule over him so thats why God took it from his side, by his side close to his heart and side by side as equals
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Try this: \n\nBibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible. Enter the Bible passage (e.g. John 3:16), keyword (e.g. Jesus, prophet, etc.) or topic (e.g. salvation) you want to find. \nwww.biblegateway.com\n\nAny good? Let me know
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He was crucified because the men of that day, the ones with power to lose, wanted him out of the picture.  Plain and simple. He was preaching love one another and share your wealth and turn the other cheek ( I do have a problem with that last one) and they felt threatened, so they put pressure to have him removed.  Hard core politics. Personally, I feel the bible was written by men to control men. Not in a bad way but in a way to set a standard by which we can live. And if we follow these standards, we will mostly, remain within the law and not hurt one another nor upset the 'upper crust's' apple cart. That is the way they want it.  Then and now. God did not sit down with Moses and have him carve out 10 rules to live by. (Only 10?)  Tell you what, go to Washington D.C. and tell the world what an idiot the president is.  You have a right to speak out, you may not be lying, and you certainly have not sinned, but there will be those who will want you removed. And you will be. Although today you will not be crucified, only evacuated.
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Eve did not eat an apple.  The word touch means to lay with a woman  and the word beguiled means wholly seduced. And the serpent is not a snake; it's Satan playing one of his first roles.  Trees, yup there were fruit trees there in the garden but in reading Eze 31 we find that sometimes God uses trees  "as" peoples.  trunks= the body and limbs= arms & legs.  Adam & Eve covered their private parts with fig leaves, not their mouths
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i'm pretty sure you know the Christian view... this is something i've been thinking about a good bit lately - Genesis talks about 'when a man leaves his parents and basically takes a wife... they live together and become one.. sorry - paraphrasing i dont like... i'll add more as i research\nI'm curious more because of the jewish prophecy concerning the messiah; of a virgin, yet of the line of David. \n& my head hurts.
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No one created the tree, it was planted. That god can't create, he can only "form" and "plant" and clone what already exists. He was a mad scientist. The tree is knowledge and that god didn't want Eve & Adam to have it [knowledge]. What sort of god is this? Eve [who is life], was much wiser and desired wisdom, her husband Adam [the intellectual mammal] was stupid. So then Zoe (daughter of the holy spirit; consort of the cosmic christ) opened their eyes and liberated them [joined them to become one again] (for this reason the man will leave his parents and join to his wife and they will become one being again; when you make the two into one, and there is neither male nor female, you will enter the kingdom; gospel of Thomas). Then Ialdaboath the tyrant became furious because they became one again (I and the Father are one), and cursed christ's daughter [the serpent] and he also cursed what he created (actually what he formed, he "forms the light" that christ's father creates; bends time-space; second law of thermodynamics; entropy). God is invisible light (knowledge). That's level three of the Myth.
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I don't see how having a wife would make him less perfect. That does not mean he lusted, God created Eve for Adam, so why would he not create someone for Jesus? And remember Eve was created for Adam BEFORE sin existed, so how could having a companion be a sin?
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Eve when she looked upon the tree saw that it was good for food ( it pleased the flesh ) and that it was ( pleasant to the eye ) Gen. 3:6b.She wasn't satisfied just to look and neither will you be,especially when the wrong person catches you looking at a weak moment.Your desires are normal,but must be controlled.God bless and don't forget to pray,Jesus understands how you feel and wants to help.I'll pray to.
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The Church wanted to elevate Jesus from prophet status to 'Son of God' status, in order to do that, they had to put him on a pedestal and and make him beyond having earthy  needs and desires. Doing something so... ,so HUMAN as marrying and having children just isn't acceptable.
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.god has a master plan to which only he has the blue prints. it's not so much for us to understand be to have faith and believe in him
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I believe that he is jealous for our attention.  that is why we are not supposed to have any idols (one of the contexts that this is used Deut. 5:9)  He doesn't want anything to keep us away from Him because he sees how much pain it causes if we do stay away.
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Well even God says He is jealous. It's not wrong to think either. He does want us to love Him, honor Him, praise Him and rightly so since He is Almighty and The Creator. It's really only a bad thing if He wanted honor and love that belonged rightfully to someone else.
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God looks on the heart. A women who is raped is not an adulterer so in this situation it would also depend on the heart attitude.
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The stories in the bible are meant to be taken out of context in my opinion. The story of Genesis goes something like this. Adam and Eve were man and woman... Both knew no evil. They enjoyed the light from each others souls. Each of thier thoughts helped the other to grow and prosper. One day a "serpent", or a cheat,  someone that didn't believe in the way god saw things. Came forward and while adam was away playing the serpent convinced Eve that she should do the exact thing that both adam and God told her not to do. She was run by her emotions and the facts of her life had meaning that she couldn't understand. She was convinced/baited into eating things of which she had no knowledge. When adam came back he saw that she was changed. He was curious and his lack of wisdom in his judgements caused him to eat of the knowledge of good and evil. They both gained knowledge but at the cost of living in paradise. The suffering that arised was not from Satan but what Satan knew would happen. They would see each other for what each other were. And that would escalate into more and more questions. When the fact is that they both had all the answers that they needed. It was people's greed and curiousity that allowed this to happen. Naivety can sometimes seem evil to someone that doesn't understand things on a bigger scale. If such a paradise existed in the meaning of the garden of eden then knowledge and understanding were the things that brought it crumbling down. Knowledge is power, power corrupts, so knowledge is the root of all evil. Eve was just a scapegoat. She was blamed for her naivety to believe in someone other than god himself. As for child birth, we are all sinners, it is suffering that we must go through to continue to survive. If we saw an end to child birth then we would see an and to humanity. Please also take into note that women have, since the days of homo-erectus, been the bearers of children and the protecters of the home. The men of that age were the hunters and gatherers. We have come a long, long way from that nomadic life. But the pain of child birth still remains something to be winced at. Women were never known to be what they are today. Intelligent contributing members to society. Why even 50 years ago they couldn't even vote. Women still have no rights around the world today. Men blame them for being weak back then and still blame them for it today. Women will never get thier share of the fair slive of the pie until they become the dominant ones. But men train thier boys to be dominant and thier girls to be subservient. Women train thier boys to be caring and thier girls to fight strong. So it's a matter of who's lessons are being learned and who's are being dismissed. I know I looked to my father for the real answers and my mother for the emotion ones. Because even as a child I knew thier strengths and weaknesses. If I had asked my mother for her strength and my father for his emotions then I would be gay or a complete idiot. Yes that does sound condescening but I know that to be the truth of the matter. \nWell to sum it up, I would have to say that women have always suffered the wrath of men. We just have to wait for the natural order of things to fall into place before women will be able to become the dominant species. Think about the amazon culture. (the fairy tale version) And some of us see the reality of what could be. I would reccomend reading Genesis and taking in the subtler nuances. Take all the stories from the bible and apply them to your own life. You may find that alot more of the stories make sense. But you may also find that the very knowledge you seek will hold you back from finding your eden. We all suffer the pains of knowing the truth. Those of us that don't, already live in eden and, merely wonder why everyone else left. I hope this answers some of your questions and helps to ease the sight of the suffering you witness. Bathe in the light of y
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The world has turned a woman's beauty into a horrible thing. Eve was created with a beauty that nothing in the world possesses. She was the last piece of God's artwork. She has something extremely special to give to the world (through every woman). I think the world plays up beauty but I think the church sometimes plays it down. You don't have to want a salad instead of a steak or enjoy chick flicks. I think our job as women is to display God's meekness. Women are suppose to be feminine but not in the secular way that most think. You should really look into reading the book "Captivating" by John and Stasi Eldredge! It's SOOO amazing!!! Please give it a chance! I have learned so much about myself as a woman and so much about women in general! good luck
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Good point.  \n\nA friend's mum, when confronted with the statement it was a womans fault this happened, replys, 'It took the very Devil himself to tempt Eve.  It only took a woman to tempt the man.'\n\nclever response, I think (whether you are a Christian or not).  It usually shuts them (typically a man) up.
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The bible says He has every hair on your head counted.  God knows everything about us but I believe He is more concerned about what's inside our heart, rather than our appearance.
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God appears to be quite a sexist bit of work. Could be jealousy.... as a 'masculine' deity, he can't give birth.Maybe he could do with a bit of balance. (shrugs)