Why did God use Adam's rib to create Eve?
Genesis 2:18 - 24
ESV - 18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens 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.
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Asked July 01 2013
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S. Michael Houdmann
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The story of "Adam's rib" is found in Genesis. Genesis 2:18-24 tells the well-known account of how God created the first woman, Eve, by removing a "rib" from Adam's body and fashioning it into the ...
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Jae Park
The following is my limited understanding of God's creation of Eve. According to the Jewish tradition, God made Eve from Adam's rib a) Not out of man’s foot to be trampled upon by him, b) Not out of his head to rule over him, c) But out of his rib [side], so that he might protect and love her [from under his arm to be protected] [next to the heart to be loved] closeness, intimacy
Bryan Naidoo
I think we need to look at the bigger picture of Gods plan and purpose. God said "be fruitful and multiply"...to experience fruitfulness there has to be a cleaving process. Unless it was bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, how are they going to cleave together to become one flesh? As coming from one flesh, you appreciate one another because they come from one flesh. There is no competition because they come from one flesh. No one is superior because they come from one flesh. One hand is not better than the other. Out of the first Adam he created Eve, out of the Last Adam he created the church. Out of the rib Eve, his bride was formed, out of his broken body and shed blood, the church, his bride was formed.
Jack Gutknecht
I believe God used Adam's rib to create the woman for Adam was to demonstrate interdependence, probably. Adam was put to sleep and his side opened that he might have a wife (Genesis 2:21), but Jesus died on a cross and his blood shed that he might have wife, "a bride," i.e. the church (John 19:33-37).
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