Welcome to the world, Caspian, and congratulation to you for growing up in a loving family!

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Richard B.
If that is an ideal society, I would not ever want to live there. I kinda agree with Heather.

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HeatherG: What's wrong with feminists? You feminists, women libbers and gay perverts want to ruin the tradition of family values.
The ideal society should be: 1 man marries 1 or more women. That man and woman or women have many children to please God. The man goes to work to provide for his family and the wife or wives stay home and cook for him and the children. She/they tidy the house, bake cookies for them and make sure that the husband is satisfied and the children are fed and educated.
Polygamy is every man's right. God condones polygamy: Exodus 21:10, "a man can marry an infinite amount of women without any limits to how many he can marry."
2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, 14:3, "King David had six wives and numerous concubines".

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what's wrong with being a feminist? I'd much rather be a feminist than a perverted hypocrite i.e. one who thinks homosexuality is a depraved sin unless that homosexuality titillates him.

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Exactly Beth M. That's whats important! He's wanted and loved it matters not who is loving and wanting beautiful Caspian! What matters is someone does!!!

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That baby will know lots of love just because he or she is wanted!

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In fact, the only difference evident in scripture before the fall was grammatical: They were both adam, but he was enosh, she was inshah. The difference served only to point out which “adam” was being spoken of. (For example, a lion and lioness: if they were originally physically identical, the different titles would serve only to indicate which big cat you were speaking of, and would not reflect any physical difference.)

After the fall, when the changes took place, which actually affected the whole world order, Adam gave his wife a new name. (These changes included diet: before the fall, no animal ate another.) When Adam realized that his wife would be bearing children, he gave her a name that reflected her new status: He called her Eve (Hebrew: חוה CHAV-ah – “living”), because she would be the mother of all the living. So we see that prior to the fall, she was not a mother, she was not Eve, and physically, she was not even female as we understand the word. So one of the first consequences of sin that came into being was heterosexuality, required to replace those humans and animals who died. But in addition, homosexuality came into being, to prevent overpopulation in the world. A percentage of all animal species are homosexual. (source: “Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity” by Bruce Bagemihl, Ph.D.) Although it was sin that brought this into being, it was nevertheless God who designed the n

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If there were a physical difference, he would have noticed it immediately. Instead, he recognized her as “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” He knew that she was his counterpart, his mirror image. He gave her the feminine equivalent of his name for himself.

The need for procreation came about as a result of the fall. Because of sin, there was now death, and with expulsion from the garden, there was a whole world to fill. All of creation now needed to reproduce. Having children was part of the curse placed on the woman. Translating from the Hebrew, God told her, “I will surely multiply your sorrow and pregnancy: In sorrow you will bear children, and your desire will be toward your man (literally, toward your enosh), and he will rule over you.” So we see that pregnancy, bringing forth children, was not part of her original state, but was part of the curse. So if childbearing were not part of her original design, then she would not originally have needed those parts of the body associated with bearing and nursing children. (It is also probable that her husband lacked parts associated with reproduction prior to the fall as well.) What is clear is this: Prior to their sin and expulsion, the man and woman were alike, equal, and appeared to have no physical differences from each other. Their DNA was identical. They were not heterosexual in the modern sense of the word, because there was no sexuality of any kind, nor any difference between sexes. In fact,

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God cloned another “adam” from the rib. Because the new “adam” was made from the first adam’s DNA, she was genetically identical to him in every way. (Was Eve also called Adam? In Genesis 1:27, the Hebrew tells us that “adam” was made both male and female. Genesis 5:1-2 tells us the same thing, and that their name was called “adam.”) When God made this new person, the Hebrew text of Gen. 2:23 tells us that Adam called her אנשה “inshah,” which is simply the feminine form of enosh. It means “woman.” (Modern Hebrew: אשה ishah) But we know from modern cloning experiments that a clone cannot have a different sex than the original. Therefore, the woman would have actually been no different from the man. (Remember that there was no need for reproduction yet.) The response of Adam when he met the woman for the first time confirms this. Think for a moment back to when you were a child, and saw another child of the opposite sex naked for the first time. Undoubtedly, you noticed “the difference.” And yet, the difference between naked boys and naked girls is minimal when compared with adults, where the “difference” is much more pronounced. And yet, when Adam saw his new wife for the first time (and remember, he had never before seen a human female), he did not say “What are those things?” or “Why is she missing the parts below?” If there were

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God said that it was not good for the adam to be alone (Gen. 2:18) and went on to say “I will make a help meet for him.” (King James Version) But what the Hebrew says here, and the manner in which God made this “help,” tell us volumes about the creature He was about to present to the man. The words translated as “help meet” are עזר כנגדו E-zer k’NEG-do. The word עזר “ezer” means “helper.” But there is more to it than that. You see, Hebrew has no neuter gender; every word is either masculine or feminine. Most nouns referring to people have both a masculine form and a feminine form, like “actor” and “actress” in English. Ezer is masculine. The feminine form would be עזרה ezrah. But God didn’t say He would make an ezrah. He used the masculine form, ezer. The second half of this, כנגדו k’negdo, means “as opposite him,” that is, as a mirror image.

The way in which God created this helper is also significant. He could easily have taken some of the same dust from which He made the adam, and formed the helper out of it. Instead, we find that He took a rib from the man and made the woman from it. This is very significant. From what we now know about genetics, we can understand what God did: Although it sounds frightening to say it, the plain fact is, God cloned another &

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