Bible Discussion Thread

Answering P 's comment about why did God use a rib instead of a toenail to form Eve. 1st. Let us notice that God made all the beast of the field and fowl of the air in Genesis 2 and brought them to Adam yet, no helpmate was found. Why? Here we learn, as Adam did, that woman is not to be a burden of beast, nor a sex object, nor something outside of him. Therefore, God used a rib that is inside of his body not outside of it. Eve was created to be helper, one that complimented him, and completed him. I would like to point out a few things I have learned from this. Notice that God didn 't give him pain meds and let him watch nor did he put him in a sub conscious state. He put Adam in a deep sleep, my psychology colleagues have proven this theory, meaning that marriage is more than just affection but, goes deeper from the conscious into the unconscious. One last thought I would like to leave for us to understand why God used a rib and not a toenail. Woman was taken from man, not from his feet to be walked on nor from his head to be supreme but, from his side to be equal, from under his arm to be protected, and close to the heart to be LOVED and RESPECTED. And, for that reason God used a rib.