Did Adam and eve have bellybuttons?

Question

I don't know why they would have bellybuttons, if they never were in the womb.

Answer 1

To have a belly button, you have to have been connected to an umbilical cord and to be connected to an umbilical cord you have to have been born. Since Adam and Eve were created by God rather than born, they wouldn't have had belly buttons.

Answer 2

This is one of those Biblical questions that is only important depending on whether you think a particular story is myth or historical reality.

If the creation story is a myth, then it doesn't really matter whether or not Adam and Eve had belly buttons, and in fact it is a meaningless question. It's like asking if Harry Potter has acne; teenagers typically do, but since Harry's not a real person he only has acne if J. K. Rowling tells us he does, or if you, the reader, choose to imagine that he does.

HOWEVER, if you believe that the whole Genesis creation account is an actual, historical event, then it makes a big difference whether or not the Ur-Couple had belly buttons, and discussions like these open up a huge can of worms.

The belly button, or navel, is simply the "scar" on the abdomen of mammals that marks where the umbilical cord was attached. Since neither Adam nor Eve was carried in a womb, and thus did not have an umbilical cord, it stands to reason that they would not have navels.

If you make the argument that God would have created Adam and Eve with navels to make them like all subsequent human beings, that would imply that God already knew that there were going to be "subsequent" human beings, which of course he would have, being omniscient and all. But then why go through all the rigmarole of forbidding Adam and Eve from eating from the forbidden tree, knowing all along that they were going to do it?

The same problem arises if you ask "Did Adam and Eve have genitals when they were first created?" Genitals are for having sex and making babies, two things which were not in the original plan, apparently. But this implies that God did not know that Adam and Eve were going to disobey Him, and thus be condemned to die, and therefore necessitating procreation if the human race was to continue. If God does not know something, then by definition He is not omniscient.

On the other hand, if God did create Adam and Eve with genitals, and presumbably belly buttons, then, as I have already suggested, He knew that they were going to disobey Him. That lets God off the hook as far as the omniscience thing is concerned, but now He comes off as being rather perverse. After all He seems to be toying with the First Couple, pretending that He doesn't know what's going to happen when He really does, if He's omniscient, that is.

And don't talk to me about free will. Sure, Adam and Eve may have freely chosen to disobey God, but if He is truly omniscient then He already knew they were going to do it even before He created them. If He didn't know it, then He's not omniscient. There are no other alternatives.

Then again, if God did not originally create Adam and Eve with genitals, but attached them later, after The Fall, not only does it mean that God is not omniscient, but also imagine the surprise of the recipients when they woke up one morning to find they had some extra appendages.

See what I mean about a can of worms? Better just to take the story as myth, deriving whatever meaning you can from it, and not worry about navels and 'nads

Answer 3

For those who believe the Bible to be historically accurate, this is not a trivial question. If Adam and Eve did not have navels, then they were not perfect human beings. On the other hand, if they had navels, then the navels would imply a birth they never experienced.

Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler are the authors of The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual (Galahad Books, 1994). In this entertaining reference work, they devote several paragraphs (pp. 146-147) to what they call "the wont theological dispute." They take this to be the acrimonious debate, which has been going on ever since the book of Genesis was written, over whether the first human pair had what Sir Thomas Browne, in 1646, called "that tortuosity or complicated nodosity we usually call the Navell."

Browns opinion was that Adam and Eve, because they had no parents, must have had perfectly smooth abdomens. In 1752, according to Felton and Fowler, the definitive treatise on the topic was published in Germany. It was tided Untersuchung der Frage: Ob unsere ersten Uraltern, Adam und Eve, einen Nabel gehabt (Examination on the Question: Whether Our First Ancestors, Adam and Eve, Possessed a Navel). After discussing all sides of this difficult question, the author, Dr. Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard, finally concluded that the famous pair were navelless.

Answer 4

Since Adam and Eve really had nothing to contemplate, they had no reason to have a navel to ponder. Besides, when they looked down there, they saw the forbidden fruit, and no navel could ever have distracted them from that. They were created, yes, just as you and I were created in our mothers' wombs. So the Adam and the Eve were also created, in the womb of the goddess Enlil.

Answer 5

Embryos are the start of a baby a fetus and the answer is yes. A human has to be born? The question is do you have faith enough in G-D not to go searching for those answers, or do you pursue your happiness by looking through science and trying to find out whether we evolved from Apes? And if we came from Apes then we would have belly buttons. Eve would have had to have an umbilical cord to birth Cain and Abel? Maybe G-d altered her when they were banished when he told her that she would be punished by baring children through the stomach?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

OK, sometimes we all gotta just smile a little, and have a laugh at questions no one can answer:

One day, Eve, is waiting for Adam to return, and he was late.

Finally, he showed up, and Eve said: "Adam--have you been faithful to me? Have you been fooling around with some other woman?"

Adam looked at her, and said" Now Eve ....You know there is nobody else I love but you."

But Eve was jealous, and said "Oh, yeah? How do I know you haven't been cheating on me ?"

And Adam, in exasperation, said: " Easy. Just count my ribs ! "

Answer 8

im going to say adam yes but eve no since she was made from a rib and all. So i guess that means if man was made in god's image that god has a bellybutton too... hmmmmmmm

Answer 9

No bellybuttons

Answer 10

Yes they did, but they were located just below the right ear.
I know...I knew em both....nice folk.