Paula

I think Don has a valid point about the fact that “male and female from the beginning” cannot apply to the time before Eve was created. But I also want to clear up one thing:

If God created Adam as a male-female, then we can help God out by putting that into the text. Otherwise it appears God made a mistake. Adam wasn’t exclusively male so then God didn’t create the male, he became male by default. Had God taken out the male part, he would have been female?

We don’t have to help God out at all…

Cheryl, the first paragraph is a quote from your earlier comment, that you made. It was one of the quotes that I didn’t do right. Sorry for the confusion. I replied right after that. So the second paragraph is your rebuttal to your own earlier quote about presuming God would have told us more.

But that is what you appear to be doing. You are saying that Adam was NOT male in the beginning. Please show me a verse that will contradict Jesus’ testimony and then please explain how Jesus was wrong.

Cheryl, I could say you’re doing this too. You’re saying that Adam was male, and at the same time, that he was male and female from the beginning. Both can’t be true. And I’m not insisting on anything except this: that we are not told in scripture the physical makeup of Adam before Eve was created, unless you believe that Adam was “male and female from the beginning” even before Eve was made.

Adam’s testimony has not been impeached. He said that what Eve was made from was his flesh and his bone. The only bone in the side of man is rib.

All I’ll say is that there are experts who disagree on this, and there just isn’t enough to dogmatically state what the word must mean. Again, I’m not saying one way or the other about Adam before Eve, because scripture does not tell us; it is completely silent about Adam’s physical makeup before Eve was made, beyond his being made from dirt.