Question about Adam and Eve

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For those who believe Adam and Eve were real people created by God, Did God create them with sex/reproductive organs? If not, did any of the animals have them? If not, did everybody immediately get them once Adam sinned?

Because it seems to me if God created mankind and all the animals in a world where there was no death, if mankind or animals began to have offspring, it would only be a matter of time before the world becomes over populated. Your thoughts?
 

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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.
 
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For those who believe Adam and Eve were real people created by God, Did God create them with sex/reproductive organs? If not, did any of the animals have them? If not, did everybody immediately get them once Adam sinned?

Because it seems to me if God created mankind and all the animals in a world where there was no death, if mankind or animals began to have offspring, it would only be a matter of time before the world becomes overpopulated. Your thoughts?

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.
 
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For those who believe Adam and Eve were real people created by God, Did God create them with sex/reproductive organs? If not, did any of the animals have them? If not, did everybody immediately get them once Adam sinned?

Because it seems to me if God created mankind and all the animals in a world where there was no death, if mankind or animals began to have offspring, it would only be a matter of time before the world becomes over populated. Your thoughts?
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.
 
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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?
 
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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.?
 
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For those who believe Adam and Eve were real people created by God, Did God create them with sex/reproductive organs? If not, did any of the animals have them? If not, did everybody immediately get them once Adam sinned?

Because it seems to me if God created mankind and all the animals in a world where there was no death, if mankind or animals began to have offspring, it would only be a matter of time before the world becomes over populated. Your thoughts?
How about the idea of man boldly going where no man has gone before....if you get my drift.
 
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Where is thru His ascension that some would not experience second death?
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.
 
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For those who believe Adam and Eve were real people created by God, Did God create them with sex/reproductive organs? If not, did any of the animals have them? If not, did everybody immediately get them once Adam sinned?

Because it seems to me if God created mankind and all the animals in a world where there was no death, if mankind or animals began to have offspring, it would only be a matter of time before the world becomes over populated. Your thoughts?
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.
 
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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 inappropriate behavior with animals? I would think it take more than genitalia to inform Adam on this point.
 
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What? No love for Enoch?
Thank you! Genesis 5:24 " He enjoyed a close relationship with God throughout his life. Then suddenly, he disappeared because God took him."
 
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Never heard of inappropriate behavior with animals? I would think it take more than genitalia to inform Adam on this point.
Yes, that's how Adam knew that the beasts weren't for him when he mated (inappropriate behavior with animals): no fruit.
 
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Never heard of inappropriate behavior with animals? I would think it take more than genitalia to inform Adam on this point.
Maybe that really is where the rubber meets the road. Too much sheep counting coup.
 
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Yes, that's how Adam knew that the beasts weren't for him when he mated (inappropriate behavior with animals): no fruit.

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