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Why not? There is an all female lizard species that seems more improbable than such a mechanism yet they exist.ravenscape said:Are you positing some kind of completely internal transport mechanism between testes and ovaries? Is there any evidence of such?
Those lizards reproduce by parthenogenesis: the giving birth of unfertilized eggs. There is no hermaphroditic mechanism involved.Kris_J said:Why not? There is an all female lizard species that seems more improbable than such a mechanism yet they exist.
Are you in any way showing that it is inconceivable for a hermaphrodite to self fertilize by an internal mechanism rather than by some sort of self sexual-intercourse?RoboMastodon said:Those lizards reproduce by parthenogenesis: the giving birth of unfertilized eggs. There is no hermaphroditic mechanism involved.
Kris_J said:It seems from a quick scan of readings including the Bible, Adam was a hermaphrodite.
Or perhaps when men out there are having "cysts" removed from their testicles, they are actually removing the dead human fetus that was conceived in their testicles - in place of gonads, they may have ovotestes - the human reproductive organ of hermaphrodites.Matthew777 said:The answer to this question will not come from a "quick scan" but only the works of the church fathers and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Based on my studying of patristics, the best answer that I can give you is that God designed Adam and Eve with the same sexual organs a male and female would have; knowing that they would fall from grace and need them for reproduction.
We have fish on the Great Barrier Reef that change genders, they can swap genders and are fully functional both directions, its quite weird.Those lizards reproduce by parthenogenesis: the giving birth of unfertilized eggs. There is no hermaphroditic mechanism involved.
Don't think any Mammals can though.We have fish on the Great Barrier Reef that change genders, they can swap genders and are fully functional both directions, its quite weird.
Don't think any Mammals can though.
It seems unlikely that you could be functional as both male and female with all the conflicting hormones.
It seems from a quick scan of readings including the Bible, Adam was a hermaphrodite.
What do you think?
By the way, curious, what is a Atheist doing on a Christian page? (your welcome by the way, Christians shouldnt be afraid of those who think they are deluded)
He was a male.
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
What scripture suggests otherwise?
According to scripture Adam also translated "Them" interestingly enough, was created perfect so I can only assume the mechanics were also perfect.
By the way, curious, what is a Atheist doing on a Christian page? (your welcome by the way, Christians shouldnt be afraid of those who think they are deluded)
He was a male.
7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
What scripture suggests otherwise?
You could also interpret any possible plurality as Adam being a representation of mankind, as some Christians do.
In your studies when people are translating the Hebrew word to "Them" is it because it's a non gendered singular pronoun, or that it's a collective pronoun? (I'm not certain they are the same thing in Hebrew as they are in English).
He seems unambiguously male in modern English Christian versions, but apparently it's less clear in context of original translations.
Some Jewish folklore has Adam and Lilith being created as one creature who were then split in two. But Lilith was rebellious and didn't want to be a wife, so God banished her and crafted Eve from Adam's rib.
...and we have a new winner of the prize for posting on an inactive thread.My research shows that jewish thought on the matter would say yes.
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