Question about Adam and Eve

The general belief would be that they had reproductive abilities from the beginning per Genesis 1:28.

As I understand it immortality is proper to human beings, not lower animals. If population became an issue then presumably human beings would have to stop reproducing. Another relevant teaching is that prior to the Fall the faculties, including the sexual faculty, were under the control of the intellect and will, and were not disordered.

 

Since Everyone in the world today can live in Michigan with space to spare overpopulation is not the problem. It is poor management of resources.

 

Also, Adam and Eve died spiritually. There could have been physical death before the fall. Bacteria in the gut for digestion had to die or it would have killed Adam and Eve.

 

Scripture does not tell us that Adam and Eve would never experience the end of one's life. After the fall all humanity would not only experience natural death but also the second death. This is what Jesus Christ of Nazareth accomplished on the cross. The restoration of the relationship with Him through His Holy Spirit once lost by Adam and Eve and put an end to the second death.
This should clarify your first query.

 

Where is thru His ascension that some would not experience second death?

 

They were given two trees to chose from... death or life. So the future was as yet undetermined for this beta product. Odd part is once they had chosen death, they were removed from the Garden so they could not still access the tree of life and continue to live. Could they have over-ridden the death sentence and kept the knowledge of good and evil to become universal villains.?

 

How about the idea of man boldly going where no man has gone before....if you get my drift.

 

Did He create them with navels? Why does man have nipples?

 

In Revelations Chapter 17.
the two witnesses from the OT, who would testify to the Jews, who would accept Jesus as the Messiah. Also known in the OT/NT as Moses, and Enoch.

 

What? No love for Enoch?

 

Yes, they were created with reproductive organs, as were the animals.

That's how Adam knew that the animals weren't made for him to mate with, and why God created Eve in the way that He did.

 

Never heard of bestiality? I would think it take more than genitalia to inform Adam on this point.

 

Thank you! Genesis 5:24 " He enjoyed a close relationship with God throughout his life. Then suddenly, he disappeared because God took him."

 

My pleasure.

 

Yes, that's how Adam knew that the beasts weren't for him when he mated (bestiality): no fruit.

 

Maybe that really is where the rubber meets the road. Too much sheep counting coup.

 

Are you saying that he tried to have sex with every single animal and only asked for Eve when none of them got pregnant?

 

If he could ask for and receive a companion from God, why before eating of the apple would he even consider making a kid of his own? He could just order one.

 

What difference does it make if the old Adam isn’t dead?