They just didn't write about it because it was irrelevant to the story that they were telling or perhaps it was edited out by a past generation. They wrote very little about Jesus' childhood, but we know that he had to be a kid.
By life outside the garden, I mean like dinosaurs and cavemen.
2006-09-01 03:46:09 · 13 answers · asked by Red Yeti 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If answer is no, why not? Is it that hard to believe?
Where did Cain's wife come from?
2006-09-01 03:50:31 · update #1
This question depends on how long you think we have been on earth and will continue to be on it. Are we permanent residents or doomed to be a flash in the pan. Our perception of time is limited by our own lifespans. There have obviously been many tales of how we got here passed down through the generations, mostly to abate us of our fears of the unknown and difficulty coping with inescapable aspects of life like loss of health, old age and death. If we convince ourselves we know where we come from it makes it easier to sell your version of what happens after we die. The garden is a very idyllic version of the beginning, but there are many other versions available. I don't believe there is any concrete evidence of where we come from other than what is inside us and that points to an even greater mystery.
2006-09-08 12:06:16 · answer #1 · answered by Type3Thinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep. Most definately plausible. When Adam and Eve had children, one of their children went to the land of Nod where he found his wife.
Obviously life existed or was created in other areas. So if Adam was the first man ever created and Eve the first woman, maybe He set up other "gardens" at the same time because God's a pretty smart God and knew that inbred people would be a bad thing.....even when the gene pool was pretty clear from problems. (It sets a bad example.)
Dinosaurs? Probably not. They would have eaten all the tasty little men. That might have really screwed up the geneology of Jesus. I'm pretty sure humans were significantly more advanced than cavemen when we started recording history in actual words instead of cave drawings.
2006-09-09 10:31:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that dinosaurs are spoke of in the book of Job, however, there was a time in Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, which is called the Gap Theory, some say that millions and millions of years had passed, that would explain the time of the dinosaurs and what science keeps finding from their point of view.
The only problem with the Gap Theory is the bible mentions that the first animal died when God gave them animal clothing to wear.
There will always be tension between Science and the Dogma of the Church. These things are usually non essentials and prove nothing of real value.
2006-09-07 09:18:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dinosaurs... yes... but dinos come in many sizes and might have been in the garden.. they keep the trees pruned
cavemen ...no... the cavemen were the descendants of Adam and Eve and many cavemen lfossels such as Neanderthal and Cro magnon were people living during the ice age in the centuries after the flood of Noah
life outside the garden... sure... on the 6th day there were both wild animals and domesticated... man was pu tin a garden not a jungle and clearly.. the ocean is outside the garden..yes?
2006-09-01 10:50:36 · answer #4 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Garden of Eden is part of a Creation Myth (one borrowed, moreover, from the Babylonian Enuma Elish during the Exile). Authorities like Maimonides advised people not to take the first 11 chapters of Genesis as literal history. And as literal history, it is absurd. Cain's wife is part of the problem. There's another problem with Cain: after he was forced to wander the Earth, he expressed worry that people might kill him. WHAT people??
2006-09-01 10:53:32 · answer #5 · answered by kreevich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably dinosaurs and no cave men. But there would have been monkeys of infinite variety that may have looked like men.
there is some today that do. Those who looked more like men probably would have been killed off sooner by early men.
By superstitious and because of superior intelligence.
they would have been no match for the people of that time.
It mentions Nimrod in the bible as a hunter. Could be since he was wicked a hunter of these early animals.
2006-09-01 10:51:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was nothing outside the Garden until God drove Adam and Eve out. The nanosecond they went through the Gate, then the mind of God made manifest the "outside."
2006-09-09 07:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by Ever Learn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because in Gensis 2 it related that God created a garden for Adam and Eve and his job was to name the animals. I find alot of guidance frm these questions on a website call www.gotquestions.org
2006-09-01 10:50:46 · answer #8 · answered by fyrechick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not human life. Maybe sub-human life, like the neanderthal man which was not really a man but a sub-human that did not survive the flood. The discovery of Sub-human skeletons is not proof of evolution because these were not in the genre of humankind. They were beast like any other beast of the field.
2006-09-09 07:24:41 · answer #9 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God sent man out past Eden, so there definately was life out there, but it was wild life, not a controlled and safe environment like in Eden.
2006-09-01 10:49:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋