But all that being said, let's dive right
in, for there are quite a few points to be made.
The first point to be made is that Eve was
made from Adam and for Adam to be his ideal partner. It was God's will that
they each be made to be together forever. The main reason (other than companionship and possibly God just being nice) being that they were destined to
someday repopulate the earth. And obviously, this is something that could only
be done by a couple made of a man and a woman.
So of course Adam and Eve had to be
straight; if they were meant to have so many children, they would have to at
least like each other. That only makes sense. However, to follow the story of
Adam and Eve today would mean that the main purpose of any couple should only
ever be to reproduce and populate the earth. And based on that argument, there
is no worth or purpose in infertile couples, or even in living as a single
person. Not to mention that argument would undermine the
lives of all asexual or eternally celibate people, or anyone unwilling or unfit
to bear and raise children. Because if the first people were born to reproduce
and be married, then all people should. However, this is obviously not what the
Church teaches by any means, and it's not a moral belief many people have today.
You could still that the point wasn't them
having children, but them being romantic at all. That the point was that if a man should want a relationship, it should only be with a woman. The problem
with this is that it only works because Eve was created with the sole intention
of being Adam's one perfect companion. They were created to be perfectly
suitable for one another. But this is the same for any gay person. God created
them uniquely to like someone of the same gender because that's who they were meant to be with.
Granted, there are exceptions with this,
like if a straight girl fell in love with another girl, or a gay man falling
for a girl, or anything of the sort. Just to clear this up before anyone
misunderstands. The point is, if God created a soul mate (if you believe
that) for someone, then it was his intention that you be with them. Regardless of gender.
Adam and Eve was by no means of love story, but if you want so badly to treat
it like one, this is the point to be followed: God makes people companions.
Whether it be platonic or romantic, humans are a social being and that's what
God wanted. We should not shun love where we find it, no matter the form. And
we should never deny anyone the love that they have found, even if it isn't a
love just like what you or anyone else has experienced.
But all of that serious argument aside, the
story of Adam and Eve isn't a true one anyways. The Bible is so figurative that
a lot of it isn't actually real. This could easily have been made up by someone
the day before the first edition of the Bible was written up. Maybe they were a
hetero-elitist who thought of course the first humans were straight. But God is
God. He can do whatever he wants. Who's
to say the first humans weren't both girls. Maybe God gave one the
divine power to impregnate the other, and then she gave birth to a son and God
just said "well that was a lot of work. On the next batch of generations,
let the male kids do it. Save me time to do other God things." The thing
is, you weren't actually there. So stop bringing Alicia and Eve into it.
