2007-01-31 14:32:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?
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.
2007-01-31 16:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume by the question that you believe in the God of creation or you wouldn't believe in Adam and Eve. So due to the fact that Adam and Eve were created and not "born" they would not have a navel.
2007-01-31 14:36:10 · answer #2 · answered by isellhousesinnm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would stand to reason that Adam and Eve did not have navels, because they were created by God.
2007-01-31 14:43:37 · answer #3 · answered by clemson 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Navels were given as lint collectors.
Adam and Eve were naked, so they weren't needed.
2007-01-31 14:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Christian lore, the fruit is characterized as an apple. In Islam, as a banana. I'm not sure about Judaism, but I don't think anyone characterizes it as a navel.
2007-01-31 14:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by thunderpigeon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
They got them later from eating a certain type of orange
2007-01-31 14:38:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their is relay no way to know that, but because the were created and not born i would say "no"
2007-01-31 14:43:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not they never were in a womb.
2007-01-31 14:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by mrfame1017 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ask them
2007-01-31 14:36:31 · answer #9 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Apples"
No navels.
2007-01-31 14:38:23 · answer #10 · answered by Blank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋