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The Traveler
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Date Joined Jul 2003
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Posted 9/2/2003 1:04 PM (GMT -6)

Doc. Boyd and tohers,
I've read some storries abou this woman called Lilith who was mythically Adam's first wife. I'm wondering what your take is on the myth, and exactly what rool did play?

in Christ
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DLW
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Posted 9/2/2003 1:34 PM (GMT -6)

Hey, my jewish contacts informed me that lilith emerged as a result of jewish rabbis noticing that there are two creation accounts and speculating that there may have been different wives for Adam in them.

This is not true. The two accounts were written at different times, likely, since the sentence structure is different.

Lillith became a she-demon luring men away from their families through her seductive wiles. Lillith was an accomodation from the pagan cultures surrounding the Hebraic people.

Of course, one could rather accurately rename the internet or this board as lillith since it has a somewhat similar effect on people of both genders...

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Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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