When was Eve created?

[LadyRaven]

It might possibly be a euphamistic phrase to mean all creatures great and small...

But see, that's the problem here. Is Genesis to be taken LITERALLY, and word-for-word - OR - do we read it quick and get the general meaning?

If I read it quickly and get the "general meaning" this is what Genesis (the first two chapters, anyway) tells me:

1) God created ALL of the universe and ALL life in it.

2) Adam had a wonderful, close relationship with God - then blew it.

Nothing to argue with there!

Genesis is to be taken literally... ie in its proper literary context. God did not "hang the stars" yet that is what scripture says. He wasn't out there on some heavenly clothesline with hooks...it means that he deliberately made and placed the stars in their place. Therefore, if this was a literary phrase it would be perfectly legitimate to interpret it with the phrase.

However, look what is being done, God is bringing animals to Adam for him to name and also for him to understand that there is no mate for him. God didnt need to bring insects and sea creatures to him and well most rodents obviously would be unsuitable too (as would birds but....). I think unless this is a phrase meaning "all of them" it would not be unreasonable to come away iwth the impression that God would bring animals until it dawned on Adam that there wasn't anyone there for him. Parading the finches by might also be a type of humour....yanno?

[Ovedya]

It doesn't need to have happened all on the same day.

So what Genesis says doesn't matter? What do you mean?

No. I didn't say that Genesis doesn't matter. I think that, whether it happened all on the same day or not, doesn't really matter. There are more important things to see in the Scriptures than this.

[Pizzaguy]

No. I didn't say that Genesis doesn't matter. I think that, whether it happened all on the same day or not, doesn't really matter. There are more important things to see in the Scriptures than this.

Totally agree.

But when I said that a few days ago, I got BLASTED with people telling me that I had to believe the literal meaning of Genesis or else, I "didn't believe anything"!

[Pizzaguy]

Genesis is to be taken literally... ie in its proper literary context. God did not "hang the stars" yet that is what scripture says. He wasn't out there on some heavenly clothesline with hooks...it means that he deliberately made and placed the stars in their place.

Agreed.

However, look what is being done, God is bringing animals to Adam for him to name and also for him to understand that there is no mate for him. God didnt need to bring insects and sea creatures to him and well most rodents obviously would be unsuitable too (as would birds but....). I think unless this is a phrase meaning "all of them" it would not be unreasonable to come away iwth the impression that God would bring animals until it dawned on Adam that there wasn't anyone there for him. Parading the finches by might also be a type of humour....yanno?

I gotta say, I never thought the 'naming' was a part of 'finding a helpmate', but I guess it could be.

[Pizzaguy]

The significance of the naming of the animals wasn't to name them, it was God demonstrating to Adam just exactly who He is.

That makes sense to me !

[Beta]

It says nothing about livestock in my Bible. Gen.2 v 19 . . . and whatsoever Adam called every living creature . . . wouldn't that include all without listing each species in particular ? v 20 specifically refs to larger animals who have similar ways of re-producing as man, that's why it says there was no helpmeet among them for Adam. God did not want any sexual relationship between man and beast, and it is blatantly obvious there never could be with insects and the like so they did not figure in that equation at all.

[Floatingaxe]

It is well known that God created animals in an after thought, meaning He didn't put much thought into it when He created them,

That's really very funny!