Why do adam and eve have navels

When God created the heavens and the earth, there was perfection in all the creation, and this included Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were distinct in that God created them Himself, unlike following generations where God would use the birth process as a means to create human lives.

Make no mistake about it; even though we are born through a human birthing process, God is still the Giver and Author of Life Acts , but the point is that God created man and woman in a state of total perfection. There was no physical or mental flaw in either of them; therefore we can assume there was no need for a belly button or navel. God did not need to use a belly button or navel to feed an, as yet, unborn person.

Imagine humans having eternal life in continuous state of sinful depravity. The evil imaginations of eternal beings would grow worse and worse over time in depravity, until the wickedness would be unbearable and human society would be extremely dangerous.

Now, the sins of mankind had separated humanity from God Isaiah There had to be reconciliation between God and man and that came in the Person and work of Jesus Christ, Who lived a sinless life to die for those who have been brought to repentance and trust in Christ.

They had a bigger problem. Adam was molded from spit and clay and Eve from Adam's rib. They weren't born of woman, so how could they have navels? Yet they'd look pretty silly without them.

Artists often dodged the question by extending fig leaves over the lower belly. That may sound foolish, but it took on huge significance in the 19th century.

Just before Darwin, geologists began seeing a world far older than Adam written in fossils and geologic structures. Suddenly, all this history before the Creation! Navels suggested only that Adam had a history before he was created. Now these geologic remains suggested that Earth itself existed -- alive and changing -- long before the biblical Creation. In a fundamentalist scientist, Philip Henry Gosse, addressed the matter. It may be considered merely a tricksy paradox by some but in fact it reveals the full extent of human ignorance by proving that as mere mortals we cannot ever expect to know the answers to such pointless questions as 'Why are we here?

Mary Fallon, Chippenham Wiltshire The navel is a scar left by the umbilical cord which attatches a foetus to the placenta. If Adam and Eve were created as adults by God they would not have had an umbilical cord.

Lee, Leeds god had to provide navals else any children that they may have would notice the abscence and thus grow up disfunctionally. Chris, Glasgow with regard to Adam Cramer's reply, i find it strange that he would back up an issue relating to creation with an opposing theory of evolution! But i really dont believe that Adam and Eve had belly buttons Catalina, Santiago Chile In response to Chico, you can refute any evidence by stating that God made it that way to fool us, but a it's not a very good argument, and b do you want to believe in an alleged divine being that behaves that way?

The redundancy of this navel must have been built into Adam and Eve as it is necessary for any offspring and could not have been used in their bodies.

Therefore either the rest of mankind is not in god's image, or god created Adam and Eve knowing that they would have children and introducing the mechanism for that. Danny, Birmingham I think we should ask if Adam and Eve ever existed or not!!

Miguel Costa, Macau china Human beings have navels. If we are created in the image of Adam and Eve and if Adam and Eve were created in the image of the Lord which we're reliably informed that they were then this would suggest that God too had a navel which in turn would suggest that God had parents Did Adam and Eve have parents?

Maybe they did, maybe the parents sought anonymity and never got a mention in the holy book. Or maybe God felt they were never worthy of a mention. Does anybody know? My hunch is that, being aware of this conundrum, God, Adam and Eve would have been equipped with "phantom" navels, serving no practical purpose, but entirely necessary for the future of the human race.

It's all metaphor. Lets run over this again. There is plenty of documentary evidence. The issue of contention since has been whether he was actually the son of God. Plenty of people were serious followers of Jesus, and stories about him were written and combined with existing stories to create what we know as The Bible. It is a great poetic work, full of wonderful lessons and morals.

The cord is cut after birth, leaving a small part of it that falls off in a few weeks. We are left with our navel. Genesis 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.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. With belly buttons being a natural result of childbirth, there would have been no umbilical cords involved, and therefore no belly buttons for Adam and Eve, at least not from childbirth.