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[–] 217 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Well, since it’s all made up, I guess you can claim whatever you want.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We're here for an interesting discussion. Mythology totally off the table for you?

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    May as well be discussing the hypothetical offspring of Santa and the Easter Bunny.

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    [–] 114 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Two things about that (overanalyzing your shower thought):

    1. Geneticists have what they call the "50/500 rule," which basically means that you need at least 50 people to avoid inbreeding, and at least 500 to avoid genetic drift. So while three people are 50% better than two, it's not going to come close to avoiding inbreeding.

    2. If you read up on Lilith, including your Wikipedia link, you'll see her name only comes up once in the Bible, and it's not as Adam's wife. All the stuff about her comes from other things, including Babylonian and Mesopotamian writings, and lots of folklore from the middle ages. And at that, she's sometimes Adam's first wife, with different explanations about what happened to her that really in her not coming back to the garden, or she's a demon. So there's not much likelihood that she's contributing to the gene pool.

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago* (8 children)
    1. Wasn't Eve made from Adam's rib and thus shares his DNA?
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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The only counterpoint i can see is that god is (honestly, at best WAS) infallible.
    So god made 2 perfect humans who cannot inbreed as there are no defective genes.
    At some point down the line, mutations came in and introduced possible genes that could combine/dominate to produce inbreeding.

    If we are accepting the premise of 2 original humans, why not 2 perfect original humans.
    If God made eve from adams rib, why not have them be genetically perfect.
    But Im sure there is some science i am missing where a huge genome analysis has shown that "perfect" genes have never or could not ever exist.

    And, tbh, this might as well be all science fiction based on a bunch of made up stories.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I remember my hermeneutics, the canon is that essentially, God had "blessed" early descendants of Adam and Eve, allowing their children to thrive.

    It wasn't until after the flood I believe that incest becomes more of a theme in the Bible, implying that they shouldn't have children.

    But it's been years since I gave this any serious study so I may be remembering incorrectly.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It all makes more sense when you consider these stories in their historical social context. They're a compiled bundle of stories from various religious traditions that were kind of grafted together to form one monotheistic state religion to help unify the country. So you find stories from both north and south Judah for example, the two creation myths in Genesis. And you see the monotheistic god referred to by more than one moniker because they were originally different gods.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Because Lilith isn't mentioned in all versions of the Adam and Eve story, and certainly isn't mentioned in Genesis. There's plenty of versions of the story with lots of different characters, and plenty of interpretations of what happens, but in the Canonical Christian Bible, there are at least two events where the entire human race is only directly described as being one single family - Adam and Eve, and Noah's flood.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    The confusion comes from Genesis giving two creation accounts of a woman.

    Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

    then later...

    Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    It appears that a man and a woman were created at the same time in Genesis 1:27, then later in Genesis 2:22 a woman was created from a rib

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is probably a result of the Hebrew literary practice of narrating a story once in poetic language and then again in prose. So it's the same man and woman being created, just retold in a different style.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    This is correct. Context is everything in understanding any historical source. The Hebrew texts are no different, in fact they’re a great case study in this field. They’re littered with complex poems.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    The Bible, and even the Torah, are compilations from stories that existed before these particular books were written down. However, the character of Lilith as "first wife of Adam" is probably not something left out of the Torah, but a much later invention.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Because Lilith is not actually mentioned in the Christian bible despite this wiki page's attestation she is mentioned in Isaiah. She only appears in rabbitic literature.

    Lilith is also the catalyst to a lot of vampire myths often described as the mother of all vampires.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden

    Based.


    All Hail Lilith, The sacred mother of Feminism

    Tonesatire

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    She became the first demon. The first example of the Bible literally demonizing women.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Sort of but not really. Lilith isn't in the biblical version of Adam and Eve. There might be one mention of Lilith in and unrelated story in Isaiah, or it might be an old Hebrew word for screech owl.

    The connection to Adam comes from folktales and fanfics written 1,000 years later. In terms of biblical tradition, she's closer to Steve than Adam.

    The Bible does a fine job of demonizing women, starting with Eve. But Christians don't need a scriptural reason to demonize something they can't control.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Which might be relevant if those were real people. You might as well worry about the genetic makeup of Pokemon

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Incest doesn't inherently cause genetic disorders, it just increases your chance of being born with recessive genetic disorders. Most of those disorders are mutations, and if the Garden of Eden is so perfect there probably aren't genetic disorders to start out with, meaning incest is fine from a genetic perspective. All the genetic disorders would be mutations later down the line. Maybe they're punishment for the original sin or something, to fit it into the themes of the story.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a shitty retcon from an series that jumped the shark

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think creationism is particularly bothered by genetics.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Anyone feel like this is just the story of some douche who divorced his awesome wife to find a subservient slave wife and over thousands of years its become part of a religion?

    “Oh that Lilith we don't talk about her she was a demon” he tells his grandson and 200 years after the story people interpret her as a literal demon, and just gets wackier and wackier as time goes on. Kinda feel like you could explain all that Abrahamic lore that way.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Can't have an ancient story without an evil woman you can blame everything on.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Couldn't God just create more humans after the first three? Is it certain that he creates 3 and then explicitly stops?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Eve had two sons. Cain found a wife "somewhere". Cain was also marked so no one would kill him, but the three other people known to exist were his parents and dead brother.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fucking your half-sibling is still incest.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yes, but Cain and/or Abel could have sex with Lilith and that offspring would not be the result of inbreeding.

    Also, Eve could have sex with the offspring of Adam and Lilith and that would not be inbreeding.

    After that everything else is unless there are more people.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lilith mated with demons not humans.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also Adam lived quite a long life. Like several human lifetimes

    Then there is this fun titbit.

    Adam withdrew from Eve for 130 years after their expulsion from Eden, and in this time both he and Eve had sex with demons, until at length they reunited and Eve gave birth to Seth

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If you're grasping at cousins as being the sole separator you know you have a problem. But also there's a lot of conflicting information, such as Cain settling in the city of Nod east of Eden which suggests I guess that there were people outside of Eden already. Don't take anything too literally, and jokes are jokes.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Thing is, Lilith didn't pop up in texts apart from post-Jesus, such as talmudic texts. (although a Lilith was mentioned in Isaiah, it could have been a demon of some sort) so she'd only really be regarded by modern day Judaism, not by Christians.

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