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firmobeisance -> RE: Some religions believe (1/16/2008 5:44:39 AM)
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Hmm, let's see, where to wade in and avoid most of the sharks and floating body parts...Many religions deal with temptation and the choices people make to glorify their deity. The concept is that if there were no evil, or sin, people could not chose to rise above it. That is why a creator would include dark or destructive things in a world, like cocaine or guns or fissionable Uranium. Whether someone decides BDSM is a dark temptation I think is a matter of personal (or imposed) conviction.
On to marriage: Haven't you read, he replied, that at the beginning the Creator "made them male and female," and said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh"? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate (Matthew 19:4–6 Mark 10:6–9),
However, I think most Christian adolescents learn the Biblical definition of marriage consumates the act with fornication, no other ceremony needed. Therefore, if you have sex with someone you're married.
Lilith is often identified in lore and literature as the first female activist, a title refusing Adam would certainly enforce. but Lilith is mentioned only once in the Bible (Isaiah 34:14 and not all translations include her name) : Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow. (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/humm/Topics/Lilith/bible.html).
I think it's safe to say, since she refused Adam and they did not become "one flesh," there was no binding marriage, thus saving Adam from adultery. Otherwise we'd all be bastards, huh.
The sin Eve brought, which likely happened many years after the Lilith flap died down and Lilith was happily lying with Hyenas, was that she bit from the fruit of knowlege (i.e. sexual awareness, at which point clothes were invented) and compelled Adam to do the same, which God had specifically forbidden.
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