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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/09/my-take-the-bible%E2%80%99s-surprisingly-mixed-messages-on-sexuality/?hpt=C2
Wow, God is one confused mother fucker...
The whole article is a laugh and the comments are pretty awesome too.
Jennifer Wright Knust ---- Truth is, Scripture can be interpreted in any number of ways. And biblical writers held a much more complicated view of human sexuality than contemporary debates have acknowledged.
In Genesis, for example, it would seem that God's original intention for humanity was androgyny, not sexual differentiation and heterosexuality.Genesis includes two versions of the story of God's creation of the human person. First, God creates humanity male and female and then God forms the human person again, this time in the Garden of Eden. The second human person is given the name Adam and the female is formed from his rib.
Ancient Christians and Jews explained this two-step creation by imagining that the first human person possessed the genitalia of both sexes. Then, when the androgynous, dually-sexed person was placed in the garden, s/he was divided in two.
According to this account, the man "clings to the woman" in an attempt to regain half his flesh, which God took from him once he was placed in Eden. As third century Rabbi Samuel bar Nahman explained, when God created the first man, God created him with two faces. "Then he split the androgyne and made two bodies, one on each side, and turned them about."
From these perspectives, God's original plan was sexual unity in one body, not two. The Genesis creation stories can support the notion that sexual intercourse is designed to reunite male and female into one body, but they can also suggest that God's blessing was first placed on an undifferentiated body that didn't have sex at all.
Heterosexual sex was therefore an afterthought designed to give back the man what he had lost.
Wow, God is one confused mother fucker...
The whole article is a laugh and the comments are pretty awesome too.
I love the irony.This has got to be the weirdest, most twisted interpretation of Scripture I have ever seen. Once again, someone is taking texts out of context and then interprets the out of context snippets to fit their preconceived notion. Sad.