Lulletje Rozewater
06-13-2009, 12:51 PM
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
God could have created Adam and Eve with a navel, if there was a purpose for it. But in regard to a normal birth, Adam and Eve would not have needed a navel for that, because neither of them were born — they were both created directly by God. Genesis 2:7 says, "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:21-23 says, "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Unless God had a specific purpose in creating them with navels, then they would not have had them.
If, as fundamentalists would have us believe, God created all living things as they are now, of course Adam and Eve had navels. However, if that is what He did, why did He give Adam, and all male mammals, nipples? It seems a pointless provision - especially since Eve (who came to have need of them, once they found out what their other naughty bits were for) was, according to Genesis, an afterthought to the original grand design.
In 1646, the Norwich doctor and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published his work 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica', a collection of 'vulgar errors' and received half-truths current in society, which he sought to explore, explode, and generally get to the bottom of. He devoted Book 5 Chapter 5 to the question : 'Of Pictures Of Adam and Eve With Navels'. Browne admits that pictures featuring the pair with navels are "...observable not only in ordinary and stained pieces, but in the Authentic droughts of Urban, Angelo and others [ie Raphael & Michelangelo]", but goes on to say that to admit that Adam and Eve did indeed possess navels would be suggesting that "...in the first and most accomplished piece, the Creator affected superfluities, or ordained parts without use or office", and as such he believes that the pictures are indeed in error.
If they had navels than God would have known that Adam and Eve were to eat from the "apple"
If they did not have navels God would have made a fatal error,because all their sons would have looked upon their parents as a bunch of freaking belly button-less nut cases.
Imagine Abel asking Adam:"Hey dad,did mom sucked the living daylight out of your belly
God could have created Adam and Eve with a navel, if there was a purpose for it. But in regard to a normal birth, Adam and Eve would not have needed a navel for that, because neither of them were born — they were both created directly by God. Genesis 2:7 says, "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:21-23 says, "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Unless God had a specific purpose in creating them with navels, then they would not have had them.
If, as fundamentalists would have us believe, God created all living things as they are now, of course Adam and Eve had navels. However, if that is what He did, why did He give Adam, and all male mammals, nipples? It seems a pointless provision - especially since Eve (who came to have need of them, once they found out what their other naughty bits were for) was, according to Genesis, an afterthought to the original grand design.
In 1646, the Norwich doctor and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published his work 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica', a collection of 'vulgar errors' and received half-truths current in society, which he sought to explore, explode, and generally get to the bottom of. He devoted Book 5 Chapter 5 to the question : 'Of Pictures Of Adam and Eve With Navels'. Browne admits that pictures featuring the pair with navels are "...observable not only in ordinary and stained pieces, but in the Authentic droughts of Urban, Angelo and others [ie Raphael & Michelangelo]", but goes on to say that to admit that Adam and Eve did indeed possess navels would be suggesting that "...in the first and most accomplished piece, the Creator affected superfluities, or ordained parts without use or office", and as such he believes that the pictures are indeed in error.
If they had navels than God would have known that Adam and Eve were to eat from the "apple"
If they did not have navels God would have made a fatal error,because all their sons would have looked upon their parents as a bunch of freaking belly button-less nut cases.
Imagine Abel asking Adam:"Hey dad,did mom sucked the living daylight out of your belly