Comments on: Did Adam have a belly-button?

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:10:03 +0000

Listen Up: No wonder you have such a provocative name!

But what if Adam and Eve are just STORIES invented by others? Have you ever stopped to ask this basic question?

My post was never meant to imply that there was really an Adam or an Eve.

By: Listen Up

Listen Up — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:59:05 +0000

You’re all barking up the wrong tree (ringed or ringless, makes no difference). The tree you’re barking up is a Christian one where all you’ll find are missing answers, deliberately removed from history and the much-adapted Bible in order to confuse the masses into submission.
Yes, Adam did have a belly button. Yes, Adam and Eve were educated in sanitation methods that would put most westerners today to shame.

According to scholars of Islam, when Adam came to Earth, Satan touched him, leaving a dirty spot on Adam’s pure body. God reached into Adam through his stomach and removed the spot, casting it upon the ground. Thus Adam’s navel was created. When the spot hit the ground it became a dog. This is why dogs are so loyal to man but can at times display an evil temperament.

Sanitation methods have been passed down by the prophets, starting with Adam. After urinating the hands must be washed thoroughly. After deficating the anus must be washed with clean water using the left hand. After deficating the hands must be washed thoroughly three times. Only the right hand may be used for eating and drinking. Are we in the west this careful, this clean?

Hope this is of use in your search for answers and provokes deeper thought.

By: grumpypilgrim

grumpypilgrim — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:21:38 +0000

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By: Me

Me — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:20:58 +0000

My faith is redeemed, but I’m dissapointed I can’t troll you.

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:58:29 +0000

Me: “equally important disputes” means equally absurd disputes for me. I was being sarcastic.

Perhaps you’re new to this site. If you check out almost any of my posts on religion or science, you’ll see that I’m destined to burn in hell after I die, if there were a hell (but there isn’t).

By: Me

Me — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:35:57 +0000

OMG. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. Do you actually believe the whole Adam and Eve BS? There’s nothing here that makes me think you’re joking, and that you really believe it.

The answer is that it’s a fantasy. These people did not exist. You’re just as well off debating why Bizzaro Superman doesn’t breathe water instead of air.I mean it doesn’t make sense. He’s suppose to be opposite, right? So why does he breathe air?

The answer to both is the same - they are fantasies.

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:14:31 +0000

To James T. Sewell, Ph.D.: But did Adam have a belly button or not? Hurry with your answer, because the followers of Jesus are at each others’ throats about this and lots of other equally important disputes!

Those disputes might not seem important to you, but things like Adam’s belly button, the Pope’s infallibility, the nature of transubstantiation, and whether to call God “Allah” have ripped apart huge communities. These disputes have sometimes led to bloody wars.

By: James T. Sewell, Ph. D.

James T. Sewell, Ph. D. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:52:45 +0000

The best answer is found in the pages of Scripture:
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. II Tmothy 2:23
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. Titus 3:9
The world is hell-bent, the Titanic is sinking and we are debating the brand of the deck chairs on the Titanic.

By: grumpypilgrim

grumpypilgrim — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:26:06 +0000

Further on the question about whether or not Adam had a belly-button…we know that Adam and Eve were eating the food in the Garden of Eden, but the Bible doesn’t tell us anything about their sanitation methods. Given all the diseases and deaths that have occurred throughout history from poor sanitation practices, wouldn’t it have made sense for God to have given us better lessons in the bacterial model of disease transmission? And what about the waste that Adam & Even would have generated: why don’t the Bible creation storues ever mention any outhouses in Eden?

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:24:17 +0000

highandmighty:

Don’t worry about “missing the whole point,” because I’m not sure there is point, other than the high stakes some people put on seemingly pointless disputes. I tried to spin this issue into a cognitive science observation, but I’m not sure I really succeeded.

I’m just glad that I didn’t find any evidence (yet) that anyone was sentenced by some religious court and executed over this dispute.

Erich