• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not sure I would trust anything from the creation museum to be actually biblical.

    I know there’s an ancient myth about Adam having a first wife before Eve — there’s probably also other myths that fill in the blanks. There’s also nothing stopping God from making more people during this period like he made Adam and Eve. They were probably just the “first batch” so to speak.

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          3 months ago

          The story of Lilith has certainly been an inspiration to a lot of writers.

          But I suppose so has Eve being tempted by the fruit.

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        3 months ago

        Adding a bit to that, it’s very likely that the old judaic religion was polytheistic like every other in the nearby region (assyrians, babylonians, egyptians, hittites), but started to consolidate around a single deity (not clear when, the tradition was oral). That meant some stories were left out for whatever reason, others changed, as they did several times over the centuries before being written, and every other god of their pantheon became yaweh, which explains why he has such drastically different personalities in the bible

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      3 months ago

      Also, at some point any creation story is going to have to stop specifying literally every single thing that happened and start to hit broad strokes. Things like “we just didn’t explicitly mention every single kid she had” is probably the easiest explanation.