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Originally Posted by fallsauce
but why put the tree there if God knew they would eat it? I know phage said that "omniscience does not necessitate fate." But God would have known it was a possibility (if you see free will as a flow chart)
And also, (this is a bit off topic), but I remember people saying that Man was made in the image of God, so where did the prototype for woman come from?
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I'll give the passage in the NRSV, and add the Hebrew back in where it illuminates the text, next to their English equivilent. The trick to this passage are that the names are also words. Adam means Adam, but it also means "adam" (pronounced ah-dahm) or people. And so forth. To make things more fun, God is in the plural in the whole passage. Go figure.
Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind (adam) in our image, according to our likenes...So God created humankind (adam) in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
The words for male and female, zakar and naqebah, are distinct from the general term adam, which can also mean just "man".