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bonnie knox |
Once when I was discussing with my son how things were going in the Royal Ranger class he helps out with at church, he mentioned a strange thing that one of the leaders told the class of boys. The leader told the boys that the Bible says God breathed into Adam the breath of life but that it doesn't say he breathed the breath of life into Eve [if I'm relaying this correctly]. I wasn't sure what the guy's implication was (though perhaps I could guess). I told my son, "Well, technically it is true that the Bible doesn't say God breathed into the woman the breath of life." But I think we agreed that it wasn't a beneficial thing to say to a group of middle school boys.
Sometimes, as a woman, I get discouraged with many of the attitudes I see in my church.
Some people see significance in the "breath of life" as being the moment Adam was imparted with a spirit (as in spirit distinct from body). It is my understanding that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe it means anything other than Adam was alive.
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| Re: Where did Eve get her breath? |
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| bonnie knox wrote: | ...
Sometimes, as a woman, I get discouraged with many of the attitudes I see in my church.
Some people see significance in the "breath of life" as being the moment Adam was imparted with a spirit (as in spirit distinct from body). It is my understanding that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe it means anything other than Adam was alive.
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From the pew, no Bible to back me up, I will have to go with the view, he was made TO LIVE! 
On Eve, just for fun I think God might have said, "Now kiss this lady!" Adam knew instinctively what a kiss was when he saw this beautiful being, THE woman, so he did and she came alive! That is my story unless it is shot down. 
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neither Adam or Eve had a navel, belly-button, umbilical cord, etc.
The Scripture states God fashioned the woman from the man's rib and then brought her to the man with no mention of how or when she drew her first breath.
It would be safe to assume, however, God presented the woman complete and a living organism, and therefore breathing.
Other explanations may be more colorful, sensational, imaginative, etc., but not necessarily appropriate or exact, and purely speculative.
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I heard one guy (who is now a former CoG pastor actually) who decided to become a polygamist say that only the man was created in the image and likeness of God.  |
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| Quiet Wyatt wrote: | | I heard one guy (who is now a former CoG pastor actually) who decided to become a polygamist say that only the man was created in the image and likeness of God. |
I suspected that's where this guy was going with that. Couple the creation story (where only Adam gets the "breath of life") and the verse that says "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man" (1 Corinthians 11:7), and you get some people saying that the woman only bears the image of God indirectly, or at least only through the man from whence she came. That's pretty much what The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood says. |
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11/7/15 6:29 pm
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bonnie knox |
That makes a good story, Cojak. Maybe you can call it Sleeping Beauty.
| Cojak wrote: | | bonnie knox wrote: | ...
Sometimes, as a woman, I get discouraged with many of the attitudes I see in my church.
Some people see significance in the "breath of life" as being the moment Adam was imparted with a spirit (as in spirit distinct from body). It is my understanding that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe it means anything other than Adam was alive.
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From the pew, no Bible to back me up, I will have to go with the view, he was made TO LIVE!
On Eve, just for fun I think God might have said, "Now kiss this lady!" Adam knew instinctively what a kiss was when he saw this beautiful being, THE woman, so he did and she came alive! That is my story unless it is shot down. |
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| bonnie knox wrote: | | That makes a good story, Cojak. Maybe you can call it Sleeping Beauty. |
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11/7/15 9:28 pm
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| Re: Where did Eve get her breath? |
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IMO, God breathed into Adam the breathe of life, and Eve, and everyone else who came from Adam, got it from him.
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ALL theories about Eve's first breath are just that, theories.
They are ALL speculation, some more reasonable than others.
My speculation? She got her breath the same way every human being other than Adam gets their first breath.
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| Since Eve was fashioned into a fully formed adult woman by God, like Adam, and was not formed in the womb like all humans after her, it would seem obvious that God would have had to breathe life into her fully formed body just as He did for Adam. At the very least, He would have to start her vital organs to functioning. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the most logical conclusion would be that the Almighty breathed life into her and she became a living soul in the image of God just like Adam/Mankind. |
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11/8/15 9:00 am
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There are two accounts of the creation of man. One is a brief account about the sixth day. There are those who argue this is different from the Eden account. That would be a way to keep Cain's wife from being his sister, I suppose. But one might also argue that Adam's line was the line with the 'breath.'
But if Adam died when he sinned, did he keep the breath of life? Is the breath of life something in his lungs, or something else?
I wonder if one of the boys asked if God breathed into Adam the breath of life and the teacher responded.
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| In the Bible, where God is specific, we must also be specific, where God is vague we must also be vague. For when God is specific and we are vague it open the door to sin. When God is vague n we get specific it opens the door to confusion. Nuff said. |
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| Great stuff, Ronald... I'm going to remember that line. |
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