Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?

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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?

Those are great questions, but I'm thinking you're expecting too much from a text intended to communicate spiritual truths. The primordial history is not history in the modern sense.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?
God would have provided them with all they needed to know to build shelter and tools etc. Though they were barred from entering the garden, God never abandoned them.
 
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They were not meat eaters so if they need fire, it would have just been to cook bean-hole beans or other vegetables. But it is interesting, because of science's deceptions people believe Adam and Eve was some type of primitive cave people.
 
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They were not meat eaters so if they need fire, it would have just been to cook bean-hole beans or other vegetables. But it is interesting, because of science's deceptions people believe Adam and Eve was some type of primitive cave people.
Fire is for warmth and not just for cooking.
 
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Hello @LayHong_Loves_Christ, the Bible tells us that people were dwelling in tents, and that fire was being used to forge tools of bronze and iron just seven generations from Adam/Eve. Surely the use of fire for cooking and to stay warm happened much earlier than that however. In fact, because the "fat portions" are mentioned as part of Able's sacrifice to God, I believe that fire was already in use for various purposes all the way back then .. cf Leviticus 3:12-16.

Genesis 4
1 The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD.”
2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering.
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17 Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who ~dwell in tents~ and have livestock.
21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, ~the forger~ of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

--David
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?

Yes, to all of them. Unless you want to argue that Able's suitable sacrifice was not made with fire (and then eaten later) then you could say that they didn't know how to use tools and fire. But that would be a stretch.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?

Yes.

After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?

Probably with mud bricks and wood, which was typical for that area and period. I mean, Cain built a city in the land of Nod, so ...

Where to get water and fire?

Water, that's obvious (streams). Fire, probably tinder fungus, flint, and pyrite for creating sparks (judging by what Ötzi was carrying, who lived around the same time period).

Did they know hunting? Planting?

Maybe? At this time in history there was more agriculture than hunter-gatherers.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?
As Mr. Public Hermit has stated, we should not treat the primordial accounts of the biblical histories as actual history in the modern sense. If we do, we will stumble upon inaccurate and unexplainable obstacles. They should be approached to apprehend spiritual truths.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
They had a raw diet, just as many people today use for health reasons. Eating, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, things like that, none have to be cooked.
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
With their hands? ;)
First for anyone a cave could have been sought out. There was plentiful vegetation to use to make a shelter, but I believe at that time since there was no rain then they didn't need protection from that, the earth was temperate at that time, somewhere between 65-75 degrees. They wouldn't have needed protection from wild animal then either as they too were all herbivores.
Where to get water and fire?
Since the garden had four branches of the water source flowing out from it, and a mist also came up to water the plant life it wouldn't have been difficult at all.

They wouldn't have needed fire at this point. As some mentioned Abel's sacrifice we don't know the intricacies of this offering only that it was done in the proper way that is why the LORD accepted it.
So not needed for warmth or cooking.
Did they know hunting? Planting?
There was no hunting then, not until after the flood when the 'fear of man' was put into the animals.

Planting? Since the LORD himself planted the Garden and put man there to tend it, I'm sure he taught him the ins and outs of tending such. Now that was going to be difficult outside the garden because of the curse on the land so it wasn't as fertile and accommodating, rocks, thistles, etc.

But I'm sure they had an understanding of what a 'Seed' was.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?
Some of us have the belief that there was an entire race of humans on earth prior to Adam and Eve. We see the "beast men" of chapter 1 being transformed in the 23rd verse by "gods" into a form of those gods. Adam and Eve were created by God at some point later as detailed in the 2nd chapter. So the skills and abilities you mention may have been present in the "beast men made into the image of the gods."
No need to debate this here. We have plenty of debate over in the Theistic Evolution section.
I am just offering something that might interest you.
Thanks for the question.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?

They were vegetarians. The eating of meat came later. Some of these specific things are unknown .... the point is they learned to survive in their new environment (outside the garden)
 
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Fire is a big part of why people evolved the way we did. You only get half the nutrition out of raw food.
I thought that raw food provided more nutrition?

And I don't believe in evolution.

In the Garden there was no need for cooking, things that grow on trees don't need cooking.
 
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Cooking is a related topic, and there's an article here.


It seems we learnt how to use fire a long time ago.

The precise origins of cooking are unknown, but, at some point in the distant past, early humans conquered fire and started using it to prepare food. Researchers have found what appear to be the remains of campfires made 1.5 million years ago by Homo erectus, one of the early human species.

Some foods had to be prepared carefully to remove toxins.
I wonder how many early humans died until they managed to work out how to remove the toxins. We were on a trip to Fraser Island some years ago and the guide told us that some plant that grew in the creeks was a food source. But they only used the root and it had to be pounded, cooked, pounded, washed, cooked again and then it was safe to eat - something like that.

Now who the heck pulls up plants to see if the roots are edible by a mixture of pounding, heating, washing, and whatever else. Meanwhile the unsuccessful cooks are keeling over all round the place!

It reminds me a bit of a story my psychiatrist told me. At one point he was on medication to control his weight. He said it was based on the saliva of some lizard in the Amazon jungle, which apparently never puts on weight and is always skinny.

Who goes tramping through the Amazon jungle wearing Wellington boots, a sun hat and armed with saliva sticks looking for skinny lizards?!:scratch:
 
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Did Adam and Eve know how to use fire to cook?
After being chased out of Eden Garden, how did they build shelter?
Where to get water and fire?
Did they know hunting? Planting?

No need to cook.

Adam and Eve still ate from the plentiful plant life like before.

It was not until after Noah's flood that God first gave man animal flesh to eat.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts
of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along
the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you
the green plants, I now give you everything."
Genesis 9:1-3

grace and peace ........
 
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