Why did Bishop Eddie Long preach that Eve was created not by the rib of Adam but by the ovaries of Adam?

Answer 1

Answer 1:

Why did he preach this? Because he doesn't kjnow the scriptures. Eve was taken and formed from the rib of man. Read the second chapter of Genesis. The Scriptures say RIB not ovaries. Maybe he was just kidding. Men don't have ovaries. OR maybe he was an IMPOSTOR.

Answer 2The Bible states that Eve was made from the rib of Adam.Anything other than that is unBiblical belief.The fact that men don't have ovaries is evidence that what the Bishop said isn't true. Answer 3 (from Islamic perspective)There is no mention in Quran (Muslims holy book that reflects real God words revealed to prophet Muhammad; peace be upon him; through the angel Gabriel or Jibril) on how Eve is created from Adam. Quran says: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاءًMeaning English translation:

{O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. ... (1)}

[Quran, chapter 4, verse 1]

Answer 4I would not listen to anything else that Eddie Long had to say. He apparantly needs to read the Bible a little more. This is a perfect example of "ministers" of God who "preach" the Word according to their own benefit. How could he be a preacher and teach something that goes completely against the doctines that he's sworn by? There are many arguments about which Bible version/translation is the best... Regardless, almost each one tells of the first surgery performed when God took a rib from the lonesome Adam's body and made that rib into a woman, Eve, who would be Adam's complement, his helper. Eve had the ovaries, not Adam.

I think Eddie long needs to invest some of that money he's raking in to get him a Bible Study. It'll do him and all the people his misleading some good! I have not heard this but I could argue that it is because when Adam was first created Adam was both male and female as God has no set gender and God created Adam in his divine image.

Thus to differentiate Adam and make from one person both a make and female removing and making the female from the female genitalia would make sense.

I personally think that early Judaism had a female counterpart to Jehovah. I need more facts to back this up but I suspect the truth is on the net somewhere.

Answer 5When one studies Sex Determination in Mammals, during the early status of the fetus one learns that the gonads are undifferentiated. Without the Y chormsome and testosterone, gonads, by default, develop into the primary female sex organs, (ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, clitoris). When the Y chromsome and testosterone are present, the gonads develop into the primary male sex organs (testicals not ovaries, penis not clitoris, sperm duct not fallopian tubes, prostate not urethra,scrotum not labia majora). Adam had no overies. He had undifferentiated gonads.

Added 12-09-08

Adam came to know his wife only after they were expelled forn the Garden of Eden, and that's when Eve conceived Cain. (Gen 4:1) When Adam was 130 yrs old Eve gave birth to Seth. (Gen 5: 2)

You can read what else happened to them in the First Book of Adam and Eve.

Answer 6I don't feel any significance of knowing that Eve was created from Adam's rib or ovaries. It is enough to know that Eve was created from Adam; as mentioned in Qur'an. Qur'an says: {O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. ... } [4:1]