I think when God put Adam to sleep and took a rib to make Eve he never fought back?

Question

If Adam had not agreed to it I wouldn't be in such a bad marriage?

Answer 1

Adam: God what will it cost me to have a Mate..

God: An arm and a leg...

Adam: What can I get for a Rib..

Marriage Under Imperfect Conditions

MARRIAGE has been put under much stress and strain by imperfection. Imperfection is due to sin. Sin is unrighteousness, disobedience to the perfect laws of Jehovah God. The marriage of Adam and Eve in Eden was a perfect one because it was performed by Jehovah God, all of whose activities are perfect, all of whose ways are justice. (Deut. 32:4, NW) The taking of a rib from Adam and along with it the female characteristics that were originally in him did not make him unhappy. God’s presentation of these things back to him in the form of a perfect woman for his wife ushered him into a happiness he had never known before. His wedding day in Eden was a most happy one. The marriage that it inaugurated was meant to be a continuously happy one and was to lead to the unspeakable happiness of being fruitful and bringing forth perfect children of their kind. God himself who had united them would be happy at all this, for thus his purpose in creating the earth would be fulfilled, to have it “inhabited.”—Gen. 1:26-28; Isa. 45:18.

What, then, interrupted the complete happiness of human marriage and brought it under imperfect conditions? First of all, it was a failure to recognize the right relations that God had set up between the husband and the wife and their refusal to hold to those relations. Adam and Eve belonged to each other, just as a head and a body belong to each other. “For Adam was formed first, then Eve.” (1 Tim. 2:13, NW) Adam taught Eve. He toured her around the paradise garden of Eden with which he was fully acquainted. He told her the names that he had given to the animals. Most important of all, he told her how to live forever in this paradise of pleasure as the mother of a perfect human family by telling her the special commandment of Jehovah God. This was something special, preceding the instructions that God gave to both of them regarding the food for all creatures. (Gen. 1:28-30) As stated to Adam alone, God’s special command was: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.” (Gen. 2:16, 17, NW) This command now applied also to Eve, for she was a part of him; she was one flesh with him. Even as he had taught her this divine command, it was his responsibility as head over her to enforce this life-protecting law. If he loved her he would enforce this law, because to do so would be also to love himself. She was part of his own bones and flesh, and naturally he would not hate his own bones and flesh. By this law enforcement Adam would specially love their precious Life-giver, Jehovah God, whom they were to love more than themselves or each other.

For a time Eve submitted to the headship of her husband. She did not question the punishment for the breaking of God’s law. She did not think her husband had been deceived by what God said as to the breaking of his law. She did not think that she ought to decide or lay down the rule as to what was good and what was bad. She was a real helper to Adam and fitted perfectly into his life and found safety and happiness in doing so. Then a lawbreaker, a marriage-disturber, presented himself to her while she was by herself. By means of a serpent in the garden of Eden he asked her for information. She told him what her husband had told her. Then the serpent, or the unseen one speaking by the serpent, did not here resort to any gossip by idly talking trivialities or by repeating a lie. He did what Jesus Christ said he did. He directly lied, and made himself the father of all lies. (John 8:44; 2 Cor. 11:3) Right off he contradicted what Adam had told Eve and what God had first told Adam. “The serpent said to the woman: ‘You positively will not die.’” Then, pretending to know the actual facts about that forbidden tree, he continued: “For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.” (Gen. 3:1-5, NW) The real purpose of the Serpent, Satan the Devil, in opposing and slandering God this way was to begin breaking up the marriage union between Jehovah God and his organization wife, his “woman,” that is to say, his universal organization of holy creatures, to which Adam and Eve then belonged.

Answer 2

In the original myth, a rib was taken from Adam as punishment for his disobedience to God.  He claimed that he did not like God's first gift to him, Lilith, because she considered herself his equal.  And, she was. She was born out of clay at the same time as Adam.  So, since he insisted upon something, and complained over god's creation, he took a rib from Adam, as punishment, and created eve, so that she would be forever subservient to him.  Eve is of Adam.

This one of the reasons I don't like or agree with the book religions.  In my tradition, Man and woman were made at the same time from two different kinds of drift wood.  Odin, Hoenir, and Lothur gave the gifts of life and soul to them at the same time.  Neither is better than the other.

Answer 3

I hardly think you can only hold anyone-especially not fictional characters-responsible for you marrying someone you don't like.

Answer 4

Adam would be the only human being to live then.Adam and Eve sinned,that is what started the ball rolling for all bad in the world.There are good marriages out there as well.

  I had a bad marriage too,so don't feel bad.

Answer 5

Why would he need to put him to sleep in the first place to create her?  The proper translation points to anesthesia over sleep but that is neither here not there...  God should be able to do that without Adam feeling pain if he is all powerful.

God also should not need to take a piece of Adam to make Eve, unless you take into account the writers of this version of a much older myth were sexist.

Answer 6

nooo... he couldn't have tooken it out of him if awake if he has asleep he wouldn't feel it... and if he didnt take it you wouldn't be here

Answer 7

Your choices are yours alone. The creation story is mythical. If your marriage is so bad there are ways out.

Who do you blame if you hurt yourself while working?

Come on man, life is a b.... and we all go through it, from the cradle to the grave.

Answer 8

Ah! but its great to be able to blame someone else!

Answer 9

It is always easier to blame someone else then to take that long hard look at yourself and your wife.

Pray the Rosary and receive the Sacraments for the Glory of God in the Highest.

Answer 10

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