What if it wasn’t just that Eve was taken out of Adam, but rather that Eve is a part of Adam that is now missing from Adam?

We all recognize that God has characteristics that we would consider ‘masculine’ and those that we would consider ‘feminine.’ Adam was made in His image. Then Adam and Eve were in His image. Perhaps in Adam there was the complete package, and then God took half of it to make Eve. The ‘feminine’ half (of course, it wouldn’t be ‘feminine’ until He made Eve).

This would help to better explain Adam’s reaction to his first viewing of His new bride! He recognized that some of his very being was taken from Him and made into another person. It would be like God taking your sense of humor from you, using it to create someone else, and then making the two of you best friends. If you wanted to enjoy your sense of humor, you had to do it ‘through’ them…

And if I know anything at all about Hebrew (which I don’t at all, I just was told this by someon) then the word translated ‘rib’ is a little ambiguous as to its literal meaning…

i don’t know what to say about the book about being a woman. other than that women are to serve us. though the flip side of that is that we are to love and serve them as well.