Does anyone else think that the Bible is a bit mean on Eve, because it seems to blame her for all the crappiness women get. That's a bit unfair, isn't it?

Even though Eve was the instigator, it also tells that nothing changed until Adam ate from the apple.

Adam was ultimately responsible for everything including Eve. God did not make woman to be responsible like we are now we were not created equally.

But then God made man to be everything he needed to be to take care of woman and the earth, he was perfect. Man was suppose to protect, care and make decisions for himself and family. People were suppose to live with only their baser needs. Take from the earth to survive and to give back to the earth.

Because of original sin these things changed. As the year go by woman have more and more had to step up to the plate be as strong as men (mentally actually stronger in some cases) men are no longer perfect, and neither are women so it makes things harder on us because we are still considered the lesser sex.

God did not intend for things to be as the world is today. Women were suppose to bring comfort, happiness and fulfillment to a mans life. She would be mother to his children love and nurture everything around her. Her soul purpose was to love and make a happy home. In return God said man to was to love woman as he would himself, with the guidance of God himself.

Very few men today and for years have been able to be even close to what God created man to be, and woman have had to fight to be equal due to the injustice and to survive.

Women were not suppose to be single mothers, divorcees, head of their household, and to think like a man in general. We were created to be the gentler sex. I think that is one of our problems today.

We are still the gentler sex, in a greedy and demanding world.

Please note I have tried very hard not to sound like I am insulting men. Please also understand men are no longer being raised to be what God created men to be… It is not their fault. In this world today it is close to impossible for men and women to live by the bible with out 2 incomes today and with out criticism . This world evolves around money we no longer take what we need from the earth, big business does that and we pay for it.

I could go on and on but I hope you got the point.

Also anyone who reads this that does not believe in God, the bible and Adam and Eve please do not rate my answer unfairly. No one has a right to rate me if they themselves will not answer this question and be rated themselves.

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There is a lot here with which I agree, but some with which I disagree. Specifically, I don't think women were ever meant to be inferior to men. Equal partners with different rolls? Yes, but not inferior.
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by Glenn Blaylock on August 6th, 2006
Was Eve truly the instigator? I thought Satan was the one who started playing fast and loose with the facts.
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by LarryH54 on September 16th, 2009
In Genesis 2, Adam was made from adama (adama means earth or soil). Adam does not mean man, but human. The language then changes to man and woman after the woman was formed out of the man's rib. This is incredible seeing how women have historically been mistreated even at times in the ancient Hebrew culture. Women should be seen as equal to men because both are human.
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by bajojohn on September 24th, 2009
Larry, Satan doesn't appear at all in the book of Genesis.
Genesis doesn't say Satan did it; it says a snake did.
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God: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Snake: "Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,knowing good and evil."

And so Adam and Eve ate the fruit and did not die for several hundred years after.
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So now, who was playing fast and loose with the facts?
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by Sandman on September 25th, 2009
You of ALL people should understand that Snakes Don't Talk. Satan has many names and forms. He is called 'that old serpent' often enough to justify connecting those dots unless you're simply being hard hearted/headed about it.
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by LarryH54 on September 26th, 2009
Satan is the master of Disguise, He wants everyone to think he is a myth. He does not want anyone to know that absolute truth is factual,his name is in the book of Job 17 times however.
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by larry on September 26th, 2009
You can believe the snake was Satan if you want to. I don't. I think she was Lilith, come back to make trouble for the second wife.
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by Sandman on September 26th, 2009
Never heard that one before. And it does make some sense. I'll have to think about that one.
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by LarryH54 on September 26th, 2009
Leave Lilith be - her fate was not her fault. And LarryH54, you should also understand that snakes, as we know them today, do not have legs. This snake did which the Abrahamic God took away - cursing this snake to slither on its belly. Thus, it wasn't the average snake. Some people believe that the snake was a dragon in order to exemplify the evil of the East.
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by hedge-rider on September 29th, 2009
*** it-2 pp. 499-500 Nightjar ***
[Heb., li·lith′].
A creature appearing in the description of Edom’s utter desolation and of the things inhabiting its ruins. (Isa 34:14) The Hebrew word has been variously translated as “screech owl” (KJ), “night-monster” (AS), “nightjar” (NE, NW), and “night hag” (RS), while The Jerusalem Bible prefers simply to transliterate the name as “Lilith.”
Many scholars endeavor to show that the Hebrew term is a loanword from ancient Sumerian and Akkadian and that it derives from the name of a mythological female demon of the air (Lilitu). Professor G. R. Driver, however, considers the Hebrew word (li·lith′) to derive from a root word denoting “every kind of twisting motion or twisted object,” even as the Hebrew word la′yil (or lai′lah), meaning “night,” suggests a “wrapping itself round or enfolding the earth.” Such derivation of li·lith′, he suggests, may likely point to the nightjar as both a nocturnal feeding bird and one noted for its rapid twisting and turning flight as it pursues moths, beetles, and other night-flying insects. As quoted by Driver, Tristram, the naturalist, described the nightjar as “becoming very active towards dusk, when they hawk about at great speed and with intricate turnings after their food.”—Palestine Exploration Quarterly, London, 1959, pp. 55, 56.
The nightjar is almost 30 cm (12 in.) in length with a wingspan of 50 cm (20 in.) or more; its plumage resembles the owl’s, being soft and delicately mottled with gray and brown. The soft wing feathers allow for noiseless flight. Its large mouth is evidently the reason for its also being called the goatsucker, an ancient legend holding that the bird sucked the milk of goats.
As to the likelihood of such a bird being found in the arid region of Edom, certain varieties of this bird are known to inhabit waste places. An Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius) lives almost exclusively in the desert, occupying acacia groves and tamarisk bushes and seeking its food in twilight. Another (Caprimulgus nubicus) is found in desert fringes between Jericho and the Red Sea, hence in regions like that of Edom.

PS robinhug, Your answer was Beautiful,
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by larry on October 12th, 2009
What does that have to do with Lilith. Screech owl is far from snake.

Do you know the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife? That's where my original statement is coming from.
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by hedge-rider on October 12th, 2009
http://schoolfile.homestead.com/lilith.html
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by Sandman on October 12th, 2009

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