Did Adam Have A Belly Button?

Duane Morse · Dec 31, 2003

Just have to keep getting back to the original topic, huh?

How can we do anything but speculate?

Personally, I think Adam did have a belly button, as well as Eve.
They are just too much fun to play with.
And they are a great lint trap.
And they had to have something to hang the fig leaf from.

SirKenin · Dec 31, 2003

Duane Morse said:
Just have to keep getting back to the original topic, huh?

Aren't I such a party pooper? lol

How can we do anything but speculate?

I think the secret lies in whether Adam was defined as the one living human being who started it all or as a group of people.

Personally, I think Adam did have a belly button, as well as Eve.
They are just too much fun to play with.
And they are a great lint trap.
And they had to have something to hang the fig leaf from.

rofl. I almost forgot about that darn fig leaf. Therein lies the secret. The official fig leaf hanger-upper. hehe

Duane Morse · Dec 31, 2003

Doesn't Adam mean, "the man"?

8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And here "the man" is referred to in the singular. If it was a group of people wouldn't it read "the men"?

But even if it was a group, that still does nothing to answer the question.
If one or many were formed, he or all of them in that first batch would, or would not, have had a belly button.
No real way to tell.

SirKenin · Dec 31, 2003

Duane Morse said:
Doesn't Adam mean, "the man"?

8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And here "the man" is referred to in the singular. If it was a group of people wouldn't it read "the men"?

But even if it was a group, that still does nothing to answer the question.
If one or many were formed, he or all of them in that first batch would, or would not, have had a belly button.
No real way to tell.

Adam means "settlement on the plains" in cuneiform, and "mankind" in the Hebrew that Genesis was written in, much later. Mankind included male and female.

Duane Morse · Dec 31, 2003

drfeelgood said:
Adam means "settlement on the plains" in cuneiform, and "mankind" in the Hebrew that Genesis was written in, much later. Mankind included male and female.

The Hebrew is 'man", singular, not mankind. Where do you find it translated as "mankind"?
I have an interlinear at home, it says "man".
We also have an English/Hebrew dictionary, and it too says "man".

SirKenin · Dec 31, 2003

http://www.solbaram.org/articles/genheb.html

ej · Dec 31, 2003

The Catholic church at this point considers the theory of evolution to be to undefined to rule on. But in theory it does not conflict with the teaching of the church if certain qualifications are meet. The key being that no matter how god created the human body, he is the source for the human soul.

SirKenin · Dec 31, 2003

I will try and find the exact literature about "mankind".. I'm not sure where it is at the moment.

Duane Morse · Dec 31, 2003

Oh, I read some of his stuff. To say the least, it totally rewrites the Bible.

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SirKenin · Dec 31, 2003

Duane Morse said:
Oh, I read some of his stuff. To say the least, it totally rewrites the Bible.

How so in this case?

AV1611VET · Sep 16, 2017

Origen said:
Did Adam Have A Belly Button?

No.

Astrophile · Sep 17, 2017

Origen said:
Did Adam Have A Belly Button?

It's a false question since Adam and Eve never existed. However, all our real ancestors, back to the first live-bearing mammals of the Mesozoic era, had belly buttons.

Bugeyedcreepy · Sep 17, 2017

AV1611VET said:
No.

AV1611VET · Sep 17, 2017

Bugeyedcreepy said:

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
Flung with angry spite.
Words can sting like anything;
But netiquette can take a hike.

Bungle_Bear · Sep 18, 2017

AV1611VET said:
No.

I'm glad we agree on that.

USincognito · Sep 19, 2017

Astrophile said:
It's a false question since Adam and Eve never existed. However, all our real ancestors, back to the first live-bearing mammals of the Mesozoic era, had belly buttons.

Origen was last seen: Dec 29, 2005

You're responding to someone who hasn't been here in 12 years.

Astrophile · Sep 19, 2017

USincognito said:
Origen was last seen: Dec 29, 2005

You're responding to someone who hasn't been here in 12 years.

Sorry about that; I hadn't noticed the date.

AV1611VET · Sep 20, 2017

Astrophile said:
Sorry about that; I hadn't noticed the date.

It doesn't matter what year that was asked.

In fact, it has probably been asked multiple times through the ages.

Unlike science, the answer is still the same: Adam didn't have a belly button.

The technical term for the question is: "timeless."

The technical term for the question from an educatee's POV is: "necromancy."

There's no need to apologize to those who use voodoo terms to describe theological answers to theological questions.

The fact of the matter is: the question has probably been asked throughout history, but the educated elite hasn't learned the answer yet.

Jimmy D · Sep 20, 2017

AV1611VET said:
The fact of the matter is: the question has probably been asked throughout history, but the educated elite hasn't learned the answer yet.

I think you'll find that they know the answer, your refusal to accept it notwithstanding.

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