Did adam have a wife before eve?

Did Adam have a wife before Eve?

yeah her name was stacy but she cheated on him with some black guy from atlanta and they ran off to vegas and started their own show at circus circus

No

you must have really disgusted him with your lack of bible knowledge - LOL, not hardly, your imagination is running wild, the answer is simply No. :-)

A recent program I saw stated that SOME biblical scholars say YES, and that her name was Lilith, and according to Genesis (paraphrased here from my memory) [man and woman were created from the earth] ... and later ... [woman was created from Adam's rib] indicates that there were TWO women in Adam's life. But most all references were removed by the early church. Lilith was too independent (the original feminist?) and became (was labelled?) a demon.

Just saying ...
Bye-bye

In apocryphal Jewish texts and tradition, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She is mentioned in the Talmud as having wings and long hair. She is associated with vampirism and the stealing of children.

All mention of her comes from extra-Biblical sources but there's a lot out there to read.

Yeah, Lilith...

She was strong minded, and thought of herself as Adam's equal. But Adam wanted a more subservient woman...

I drew a picture...

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That is one option. In Gen 1: 27-28 the Bible says both man and woman were created and told to ‘fill’ the earth with their offspring. They were created together, at the same time and given the command. To me the answer to this question is in the question, “why was Eve cloned from Adam’s rib”?

The first possible answer is that Lilith was Adam’s first wife. And since she was defiant to both Adam and God, Eve was taken from Adam’s body so they would be ‘one flesh’ and eliminate the defiance.

The second possible answer, the one I subscribe to, is that there were two creations of man. The hominids were created in Gen 1: 27-28, and the creation of Adam in Gen. 2: 7-8. Let’s look at it what the Bible describes as happened.

The first creation was told to travel the Earth. While Adam was placed in a garden, a fenced in protected area called Eden and given a specific job; Gen 2:15.

Adam was made of dust. Eve was cloned from Adam’s rib. Why the difference unless there was a reason for it? In Gen 2: 18 (Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. RSV) Here clearly the original creation process(s) are/were over and Adam is alone. In 2: 21-22 It clearly describes a surgical operation, deep sleep, removal of the rib and closing of the flesh.
It is my understanding that Adam was created specifically for the purpose of doing work for the Creator and not to procreate (Gen 2: 15 3:8). In 3:8 the implication is that the Creator left for a period of time and came back to enjoy his garden that Adam was supposed to care for. There is the implication that Eve was there to be help and company to Adam. There is no reference up to this point of them “knowing” each other in the Biblical sense.

If there was a Lilith and it didn’t work out, it would answer the reason why Eve was created differently and there is no mention of sexuality between them before the influence of the Serpent.

The reason I think there were two creations is because it answers a lot of unanswered questions in the Bible, including why Eve was cloned. In Gen 2: 18 it describes the desire to create a mate “ suitable or fit “ for Adam. The implication is that there were options available, but none were worthy. Seen in this light the question of who Cain married is answered. There are others but they are off topic for this thread.

No he didn't. God made Eve because Adam was lonely even after God made the animals.

My parents are 40 they said adam did NOT have a wife before Eve and please tell me where in god's crreation you got Lilith! I would like to hear that story!

I also heard he had two women in his life too. But they banned her from the bible.

The story of Lilith is one of th Jewish traditions

http://www.gnosis.org/lilith.htm

Here is the story of Lilith
http://www.gnosis.org/lilith.htm

You would think since all Christians are technically 'half-Jewish' anyway, that they'd KNOW a little about these things... but NOOO.

ofcourse no

NO, they were like the first people. How would he have? So..nope.

Lillith is a lie with no firm grounding of evidence. It is used to try and discredit monogamy.

...can you prove it?

whoever on this chain replied yes

can you send me a funmail and tell me what the story was
I don't want a bible passage or anything I just want a general sum up just because I've never heard that story before.

thanks =]

Yeah, I think Tiffany was his first wife. But she never washed dishes or cleaned the garden and they always argued. Then she started hanging out with the snake and Adam kept getting jealous. When Tiffany would go to bed, he'd look through her blackberry to see who she had been texting. They had a really bad relationship, and Adam just couldn't trust her. The giraffe kept trying to seduce him, but he heard about this really cute girl named Eve the next garden over, and decided to get with her. Tiffany flew off the handle and divorced him. She and Eve had a catfight at the Starbucks down the block, and Tiffany went off to start her own garden and her own bible. She tripped over some computer wires though and fell off a cliff. Adam and Eve were doing good until that same pesky snake kept trying to come between them. Finally Eve gave Adam an apple and told him to shut up.

*** Are you kidding me???***

Of course Adam didn't have a wife before Eve...have you ever read the bible? They were the first two people created.

Hope you enjoyed my sarcasm.

LOL!