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Herschel Walker: "I know what a woman is. It's written in the Bible. She's from the rib of a man" (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Lord have mercy. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #1
Mr. Walker, what you just said... Initech Sep 2022 #2
Sexist POS. I can't stand him Trueblue1968 Sep 2022 #3
What is a human being? Walleye Sep 2022 #4
A side of potato salad. TheProle Sep 2022 #14
😆 Walleye Sep 2022 #18
So Herschel Walker is admitting that the first woman in human history, bullwinkle428 Sep 2022 #5
Now that is next level thinking. TheBlackAdder Sep 2022 #8
That is, surely, number one on the list of "things no-one actually believes from the Bible" muriel_volestrangler Sep 2022 #6
Boggles the mind. God can create the cosmos from nothing, but needs a rib to create a woman. TheBlackAdder Sep 2022 #7
The reverse is more likely accurate. SheltieLover Sep 2022 #9
I was thinking the exact same thing! /nt sdfernando Sep 2022 #22
So where do Buddhist women come from? Atheist women? leftstreet Sep 2022 #10
What about a man? A person? A camera? A TV? dalton99a Sep 2022 #11
But where did man get said rib??? Ask Hershel that and he'll probably Vinca Sep 2022 #12
Words fail. onecaliberal Sep 2022 #13
Here's my feeling about this whole "Adam's rib" thing. patphil Sep 2022 #15
If a rib produced another being then why not have Adam use his other ribs. LiberalFighter Sep 2022 #25
definition of allegory: patphil Sep 2022 #26
It seems like you realize this is all mythology. (?) Sky Jewels Sep 2022 #30
Because where would we be MuseRider Sep 2022 #16
...and that's where baby girls come from cyclonefence Sep 2022 #17
just goes to show GenXer47 Sep 2022 #19
Omg Demovictory9 Sep 2022 #20
Obviously been tackled one too many times bedazzled Sep 2022 #21
The World is a stupider place for the junk that spews from your mouth, Herschel. The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2022 #23
A sad little man and his fans. Xoan Sep 2022 #24
Creepy StarryNite Sep 2022 #27
Even if you take Genesis literally, only one woman ever came from the rib of a man. dawg Sep 2022 #28
I have heard fundamentalists say that men have one fewer ribs than women ThoughtCriminal Sep 2022 #29

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
5. So Herschel Walker is admitting that the first woman in human history,
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:34 PM
Sep 2022

by Biblical standards, actually transitioned from a man?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
6. That is, surely, number one on the list of "things no-one actually believes from the Bible"
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:38 PM
Sep 2022

Even if you're a six (24 hour) day creationist, why would you think God needed a bit of a live body to create yet another living being, given everything else you believe him capable of?

Damn weird thing to say during a campaign.

Vinca

(50,276 posts)
12. But where did man get said rib??? Ask Hershel that and he'll probably
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:47 PM
Sep 2022

say it was the BBQ joint down the road. OMG - how can this race be so close???

patphil

(6,180 posts)
15. Here's my feeling about this whole "Adam's rib" thing.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:53 PM
Sep 2022

In Heaven, Angels, Archangels, Lords...all those beings in those, and even higher realms, were created by God. They don't reproduce; don't have to, they're eternal, energy beings. They don't get sick or injured, don't get old, and don't die.
So, they don't need to reproduce. There are no male and female Angels. There are only Angels, etc.
It's only down here in 3D that people are born, live, and die. Reproduction is necessary to continue the species and provide bodies for Angels to incarnate into.
That occurs when an Angel breaths a soul into a new born baby when it takes it's first unaided breath.

So, if you considered all the Angels in heaven to be unisex, they could be referred to as Adam.
When humanity began down here, another sex was needed to allow for reproduction. This lead to the allegorical formation of Eve from Adam's rib.
That's what this biblical story is all about.
It's all about the need to add a second sex for reproduction to allow for a continual creation of new human bodies that Angels could inhabit and thus have third dimensional experiences with on the earth.

So, why do we need to go through this? Simple, we need to develop individualized consciousnesses in an environment where we are somewhat challenged...a classroom so to speak.
The biggest lesson we need to learn here is the lesson of Love.
This is necessary for Angels, who start off as part of a group consciousness, to develop as individuals so they can eventually graduate into a full fledged Angel, and eventually an Archangel, and so on. It takes many lifetimes to learn the lessons of Love.
There is an old saying, "Light gets you here, Love takes you home".
It's that simple!
You aren't going home with a heart full of hate.
Love is the opening door. Love is what we came here for. No one can offer you more.
When you finally know what I mean, and your eyes have truly seen this truth, they you're ready to leave this place behind.

LiberalFighter

(50,942 posts)
25. If a rib produced another being then why not have Adam use his other ribs.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 04:56 PM
Sep 2022

No need for a female. Each person produced would have 24 ribs they can use to produce more.

patphil

(6,180 posts)
26. definition of allegory:
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:00 PM
Sep 2022

The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allegory

Adam's rib didn't actually produce Eve.

Sky Jewels

(7,107 posts)
30. It seems like you realize this is all mythology. (?)
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:27 PM
Sep 2022

The Bible is patriarchal fiction. It’s made up by Bronze Age humans in Mesopotamia. Magic isn’t real. Tales of God and Jesus and angels, etc., are stories, just like the Epic of Gilgamesh and accounts of Zeus, Thor, Isis, Mohammad, Ganesh, Trickster Raven, Joseph Smith, Wonder Woman, Harry Potter, Pippi Longstocking, etc. This stuff makes less sense than “a monster swallows the sun at night.” There is zero evidence to support the sexist nonsense in the Bible.

dawg

(10,624 posts)
28. Even if you take Genesis literally, only one woman ever came from the rib of a man.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:07 PM
Sep 2022

The rest of them got here the ususal way, and some of them came with the wrong parts.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
29. I have heard fundamentalists say that men have one fewer ribs than women
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 05:16 PM
Sep 2022

and that is proof. Never mind more than a century of x-rays and thousands of years of human remains - they believe this because... Bible.

Now, I tend to avoid these kind of "thinkers", but I do wonder if a man loses a hand in accident, do they think all his sons will be born with only one hand?

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