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Originally posted by AXiD670
Hmmm, that's interesting. Either I'm having a brain fart moment or I've just never heard of the one where man & woman were created together. Where can this be found?
I am, of course, assuming by Adam & Eve you mean that God created Adam, then used his rib to create Eve.
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Genesis 1:24-28 described God creating humanity in his image -- "male and female he created them" -- on the 6th day of creation, after the plants and animals.
Genesis 2:4-24 describes God creating Adam (which simply means "human being") "when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up -- for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no one to till the field." God then plants the Garden of Eden and places Adam in it, but finds that he needs a helper, so he creates "Adamah" -- "formed of Adam" -- from Adam's side. (The implication being that completeness is found in the uniting of male and female.) "Adamah" is later called "Eve," which comes from the Semitic word meaning "life" or "living," suggesting that as mother she gives life to those who come after her.