Genesis, 2: 21-24

Let me quote from The New American Bible: "So the Lord cast a deep sleepn the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: 'This one at last, is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken. That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife and the two of them became one body." If I were a sexist and a mysogynist, which I deny, I would offer these Biblical passages as proof that man is to rule and direct women because man was created by God first, and women are but genetic descendents of the first man's ribs. I deny all that and just conclude that men and women are coequals, in that they both have souls, both are loved by God, and both have free agency. They will compete, quarrel and spark against each other, but their primary moral foci must be on loving one another and cooperating with one another, as human counterparts to the loving Divine Couple. One could speculate that first man was made by intelligent space aliens that then created first woman from the rib of their first created man, but there is no historical evidence to prove such speculation. Note that a man is to grow up, leave his parents, find a wife to cling to and become one body, and have children to perpetuate the species. These passages are so rich. The healthy, pious adult is to grow up, go out on his own, honor the divine sacrament of marriage by marrying a woman and having children with her. My 1970 version of The New American Bible (Page 6, footnote on verse Genesis 2, 2:24): "One body: literally 'one flesh'; classical Hebrew has no specific word for 'body.' The sacred writer stressed the fact that conjugal union is willed by God." It would seem that sexual relations are approved of by God for reasons of procreation, pleasure and to validate marital bliss through conjugal union. How gays, single straights and transgender people have sex and whom they enjoy it with is far outside this Biblical sanction. But I believe the Divine Couple made other kinds of people than just cisgender, binary, married couples, so these other humans' use of sex with whatever partner they select is likely just fine, as long as they are not promiscuous, cheating on their partner, raping another person, spread sexual diseases to another person, or are inclined towards S & M or kinky sex. Sexual "sin" is a minor sin, and God and religious humans need not worry much about it, for other ethical concerns take precedent. I could speculate about how as as promoter of Mavellonialist individuation, how the married adult, straight guy fights fulfillment with his married partner, a woman that he enjoys conjugal union with. Both he and she can be ardent, accomplished, advanced individualists and yet enjoy this union with a partner, and from such a strong and loving marriage, children are best brought into the world, to be raised as strong healthy individualists. Let me quote that other passage from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and close up instead the flesh thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall have one flesh." This section from Genesis reveals God creating a new race, the human race. If I am correct and I think I am we too are creators, at our best, and are meant to imitate what God what wrought. Are we to create intelligent life, like robots that are then a new intelligent race? Maybe so, but it must be doe with humility and caution lest we create a race of powerful, smart violent thugs, so superior to us, that they turn on their former masters and subjugate or just eradicate us. Innovation does not always end well, though we must keep improving our technology.