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Who was the First woman?
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outhouse
Atheistically
ZooGirl02
Well-Known Member
I believe that the first woman's name was Eve who was Adam's spouse.
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
(Genesis 2:18-25 RSV-CE)
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
(Genesis 3:20 RSV-CE)
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
(Genesis 2:18-25 RSV-CE)
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
(Genesis 3:20 RSV-CE)
outhouse
Atheistically
What evidence do you have that were all inbred hicks from the middle east?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
No not really.
Amechania
Daimona of the Helpless
The book is wonderful as a guide to modern Western socialization and a helpful tool In understanding ancient history, but it is not only useless In any other capacity but extremely dangerous when applied outside its intended purpose: moral assimilation.
Amechania
Daimona of the Helpless
And even then it is an enemy of tolerance.
Monk Of Reason
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First off I don't actually believe the bible to begin with. So I don't believe an Adam and Eve. I am going with this debate as a biblical debate (hence the location of the thread)
I already posted this in the OP. Along with Gen 1 where it states he created both man and woman but then later created ....another woman from the rib of already existing man?
And I also bring in Lilith and if this was an accidentally included reference to her even though she was expunged from the cannon.
I already posted this in the OP. Along with Gen 1 where it states he created both man and woman but then later created ....another woman from the rib of already existing man?
And I also bring in Lilith and if this was an accidentally included reference to her even though she was expunged from the cannon.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
It really depends on what specific genes are needed to be considered homo sapien. I don't believe in a sudden switch of one species to another, I am aware it is a gradual process and not sudden. But there are first organisms to have specific genes, but the problem with this question is that homo sapiens defines a species and not an individual set of genes. Only like-genes. Certainly homo sapiens differ somewhat now than they did 1,000 years ago. There is not a single set of genetics to define homo sapien, as far as I know, just certain similar genetics which came gradually themselves.
outhouse
Atheistically
Which does not address at all in any way, that there was never a single female homo sapiens
Triumphant_Loser
Libertarian Egalitarian
Betty White
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I'll go with Eve from a biblical perspective and with Lucy from an anthropological perspective.
Triumphant_Loser
Libertarian Egalitarian
I mean no disrespect in this, but how do you reconcile these two contradicting views? It ultimately has to be either one or the other. It can't realistically be both.
roger1440
I do stuff
You are contradicting yourself. You are asking for validity to the tale of Lilith from a biblical standpoint and at the same time stating she was omitted from the cannon. Biblical and cannon means pretty much the same thing. Aside from that, the story of Lilith as Adams first wasnt written until sometime between 700 AD and 1000 AD. The Jewish and Christian cannon were finalized many centuries earlier. The story is found in the Alphabet of Sirach.
Alphabet of Sirach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lilith first makes her appearance in Judaism as a demon in Jewish folklore. She is known as the taker of children and was the demon featured in the 2012 horror movie The Possession. In Islamic tradition, she slept with the devil and gave birth to the jinn. She has also found her way into Christian folklore. Lilith has a very long history that goes many directions.
She also goes by the name Abyzou.
Abyzou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and goat-demons will call out to each other. There also Liliths will settle, and find for themselves a resting place. (Isaiah 34:14) International Standard Version
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I can understand that conclusion. I'll do my best to explain my position. How successfully I'll be able to do so is another matter. I believe in evolution and in a very, very old earth. I do not believe that during a six-day period 6000 years ago, God created the earth and dropped two belly-buttonless individuals into a pretty garden and that human life began at that point.
On the other hand, as a theist and as a Mormon, I do believe that God created our universe. I believe He created it is accordance with natural laws. Thus, the entire process started several billion years ago. I believe that human beings (or, more accurately, homo sapiens) first lived on earth (in what is now Africa) somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 years ago. This is why I say that from an archeological or mitochondrial perspective, Lucy was the first woman.
While I believe that all of us are probably Lucy's direct descendants, I don't see her as having one thing that the woman Eve had, and that is a spirit that was in God's image. My feelings are that, at some point, at about the time the events in Genesis were said to have transpired, God instilled a spirit in a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) that did not exist in their ancestor, Lucy, or in any of her descendants up until that time. Eve, unlike Lucy, was of the same species as God himself. The Bible teaches that God is the father of our spirits and that we are not only his creations but his offspring. Lucy, while having a spirit (all living things, according to LDS doctrine, have a spirit), did not have the same kind of spirit as Eve. She was, therefore, one of God's creations but not His offspring.
I should note that this is my personal belief. It does not represent LDS doctrine but it is not contrary to LDS doctrine either. The LDS Church leaves matters of this sort up to personal interpretation. As evidence of this fact, when I first visited the new Natural History Museum of Utah when it first opened a couple of years ago, I noticed that one of the significant benefactors was the LDS Church. The museum is definitely NOT a creationist museum but is as good a natural history museum as you'll find anywhere.
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RichardParker
Member
Actually, no.
Here we run into a problem with things not really being intuitive, but still real.
See, accumulative small changes can lead to huge changes, where you can see a clear difference between the start and the ending, but none between two individual steps.
Therefore, whatever organism you pick to be the "first woman" will have had a "mother" that was so close in its biology, that it would also count as a mother.
Compare it to a person growing up:
A person never has one day where they suddenly becomes an adult, from one moment to another. They all look pretty much the same today as they did yesterday. And yet, humans do become adults.
How? By very, very small steps that seem insignificant, but accumulate.
So, the question "Which individual was the first woman" can't be answered, just as little as you can answer the question "At what day did you become an adult".
When it comes to the bible, Eve was apparently the first described woman, although there is also the story of Lilith, which came before Eve, but was banished from the garden, I think.
Although, when it comes to christianity, I don't think she's part of the biblical canon.
sincerly
Well-Known Member
This has been answered, by several posters.
The context of the two chapters should be read as an overview of Creation week with the filling in of some of the details. The beginning of chap. 2 says "Thus" all things were finished. and the begins those details---the "generations"/how things were brought together.
Eve wasn't from the dust, as was Adam, but from created Adam. She was created none-the-less.
All human beings were to product of the "being fruitful and multiply" by Adam and Eve.
The "liyliyth" of Isa.34:14 is found in that one verse only. In the KJV it is translated as "screech owl"---which fits the conditions of the LORD's vengeance.