The Story of Adam and Eve

The story goes essentially that after god created the world, he created a place for for a man. Adam made out of earth. And there's an old idea, it's not exactly canonically christian, that the original adam was half woman and half man,. That's why he could be separated into man and woman. The purpose of marriage is to reunite that original unityis kind of a lovely poetic idea, and there's something about it, i think that's true....