Did Adam have a belly-button?

Answer 1

Belly-buttons (navels) are scars left where the umbilical cord once attached you to your mother.

I believe we can say, "No - Adam didn't. Neither did Eve."
Why? Because your belly-button (navel), or tummy-button as it's sometimes called, is a sign that you were once attached to your mother. You depended on that life-line - the umbilical cord - for your nourishment from her body as you developed inside her.

But our first parents, Adam and Eve, didn't develop that way. I believe that God would not have planted on them a false indication that they had developed in a mother's womb.

When God created Adam and Eve in mature form, the day they were created they might have appeared to be, say, 30 years old. But God wouldn't want or need to create the appearance of a false history, any more than the mature trees created by God would have had growth rings initially. Those are things which would develop in their offspring as a result of processes later on.

What's more, this would be a tremendous testimony to God's creativity. Ken Ham once put it this way: Lack of a belly-button on Adam and Eve would be one of the biggest tourist attractions in the pre-Flood world, as the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren would come up and say, "Why don't you have a belly-button?" And they could recount again and again, to generation after generation, how God had created them special by completed supernatural acts, and yet had designed them to multiply and fill the Earth in natural ways that are equally a part of God's continuing care for what He created.

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 had a belly button, 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 Adam had a belly button, 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 Adam was not carried in a womb, and thus did not have an umbilical cord, it stands to reason that he would not have a navel.

If you make the argument that God would have created Adam with a navel to make him 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 and not worry about navels and 'nads

Answer 3

I thought that this was a very interesting question so I had to comment.

I have never thought of the belly-button thing before when it came to Adam and Eve, but if you really think about it, they most likely would not have had belly buttons.

God formed them himself,(he technically forms everyone, but they were not formed in the uterus), so they should not have had belly buttons.

They should have however, had genitals from the very beginning. God wanted humans to live happily in the garden, yes, after he made the first two "by hand". He expected them to do the rest of the reproduction after that though.


It says in the Bible that Adam was lonely, so God made Eve. Adam has no job at this point necessarily, so what do you think him and Eve did all day long to entertain themselves??

I hope this helps!

Answer 4

I have a belly-button that looks like Adam.

Answer 5

I, on the other hand, believe that he did. Though he was created, we are told that we were created in the image of God. Therefore God looks like us and we look like him. Since we have belly buttons and we were created in the image of God, God must have a belly button and Adam was created with a belly button.

Answer 6

Yes, he did. Eve pierced Adam's belly-button with a stainless steel pin.
Pins were fashionable at the time.

Answer 7

Seeing as you have already recieved some good answers on both sides of the arguement i just have a little story my grandfather used to tell me that i thought would be cute to share....

He said we had belly buttons because God would poke us in the belly when he was making us to see if we were done :) I alwasy thought that was cute

Answer 8

no............

he was created by god himself and ..so the there were'nt any belley button for him........

the belly button is the place where the umbrical cord is connected to the babis body from the mother's and so adam did not need one...

Answer 9

Nope. The bellybutton remains after your umbilical cord is cut. Adam was not inside any uterus and didn't have an umbilical cord. God formed him with his hands. So, he didn't have a bellybutton :)

Wow simple common sense! God made him. ok sure.

Answer 10

Nope. The bellybutton remains after your umbilical cord is cut. Adam was not inside any uterus and didn't have an umbilical cord. God formed him with his hands. So, he didn't have a bellybutton :)