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Would it have made much difference if it WAS Adam and Steve instead of Adam and Eve; ? They could have adopted a couple of kids from the land of Nod where Cain went to find a wife

Posted - August 14, 2016

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  • 2758

    LOL!

    You'll have to take that up with God.  The answer's way above my pay grade. :-D

      August 15, 2016 12:03 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Uhh.. God you are welcome to join us here on Answermug!
      August 15, 2016 12:08 AM MDT
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  • Well yes, because then men would be blamed for disobedience and falling for temptation - not women.

    And it would be a lot harder to claim that women were made out of Adam's rib as a helpmate, or that they were only worth half the value of a male because of their moral weakness to Satan.

    However, one might then wonder how the other people came to be outside Eden in order to breed some excess children for Adam and Steve to adopt. Maybe God could have arranged for them to beget children by heterozygous use of mechanical incubators. Or He could have made all men hermaphroditic and given each a kangaroo pouch with teats in it.

    That way one could do without women altogether. No one would have any excuse to blame the other sex.

    It would solve the problem of man being made in God's image, since a male god presumably could not also look like Eve.

      August 15, 2016 12:45 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok that's good -thanks.
      August 15, 2016 12:50 AM MDT
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  • 5835

    You are talking about a genre of science fiction called "alternate history". It can be anything your story telling skills can support.

      August 15, 2016 1:05 AM MDT
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  • 2758

    Wait...was that thunder I just heard...?  :-)

      August 15, 2016 1:11 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Okay.
      August 15, 2016 1:19 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Guess not. I am a 71 year old 'boy' BTW.
      September 4, 2016 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Har har.. ok.
      September 8, 2016 9:44 PM MDT
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