How many of you believe in the story Adam and Eve? And why?

Question

I study in a convent and a nun told us that the story of Adam and Eve is not true and that It was just made up to show the people how man disobeyed God. Is it really true?

I certainly do NOT believe in Adam and Eve... how could an apple make the guy have sex? They would do it either way.... In what other way does God want us to reproduced? Not all of us can be born like Jesus was. If sex wasn't the way then why did God make our private parts?

Answer 1

Hooray for the nun! What a courageous and honest soul she is.

The story of Adam and Eve is an "origin myth," and has no basis in fact.

Answer 2

Yes Adam and Eve really existed. Geneticists have traced man's existence back to a single couple, through the genetic code.

If you read the Bible and actually do the math involved in the Genesis story of man's decline until the world-wide flood, it points to approximately 4500 years ago. This date agrees with the archaeological evidence from around the world, pointing to a global flood in the same period of time.

However, the only people written about are those noted for significant events. Along with those in the direct lineage of Jesus Christ. It's amazing that the Books written 3500-4000 years ago point to a specific person during a specific time period of approximately 2000 years ago.

Science again proves the validity of the Bible.

God bless you and keep you

Answer 3

Not hardly.

I believe in the concept of Adam and Eve because I use the one thing that best demonstrates that Evolution from lower forms of life is not possible, The Human Brain.

Studies, like that done by the University of Michigan, and features in the Discovery Channel program, The Amazing Life of the Human Brain, shows just how amazing the human brain is.

Every second while awake, we are absorbing 40MBs of data per second. That’s 144 gigabytes per hour and about 2 terabytes per day. That’s a lot of data even for the largest computer. When we sleep at night, and only at night or under nighttime conditions, all that data is sorted and stored through the creation of synaptic connectors and biochemical bounds. The brain has enough volume to allow for the creation of these storage connectors to last over 10,000 years.

Without the need of a creator, what evolutionary pressure could cause the need for this much volume that would take that long to fill? Clearly, man was either created by God to live that long, or if evolve, once lived that long, and has since de-evolved to what we are today. Which do you think it is?

Evolution does take place, in that animals have evolved and humans have de-evolved since the time of the creation. Many divergent species are related, such as the Meerkat/Hyena and the Lion/House cat. A house cat can breed with a lion, I wonder if the same is possible the Hyena and Meerkat?

This is why I believe in God. I use the brain he gave me, and designed for me, to determine something beyond imagining.

Answer 4

She got it partly right: Adam and Eve, Pandora, and all the other origin myths are just that -- myths.

Myths are stories which supposedly explain the world but are actually created for the purpose of social cohesion: "This is what our tribe believes, this is what keeps us together, and staying together is our defence against The Others who don't share our beliefs."

The Garden of Eden story purports to explain why death and pain and sorrow came into the world -- what theologians call The Problem of Evil or The Problem of Pain. Look it up on wikipedia, it's good reading.

Answer 5

The Adam and Eve/Garden of Eden sotry was plagiarized from the older story of the Anannaki, found on the Sumerian tablets. They were in the region mining gold. It's parallel with a few major changes the bible writers made to fit their needs. In the original version, "Eve" was male and the snake one of the good Anannaki trying to help humans (that were already here and had been for a long time) escape enslavement from this group.

Answer 6

I believe the story of Adam and Eve but i believe Eve was saduce by satan. Were do thy get that Eve eat a apple anywaythe Bible does not say that! but look up the word beguile and take it from there now the reason ibelieve thy had sex is because ithink she had Cain from satan and Able from Adam what happened there?

Answer 7

Jesus tells us about the story of Adam and Eve, in the first chapter and first verse of the Gospel of John.

Jesus tells us the true story of Eve in Revelation 12.

How was Jesus and John the Baptist brought into the world?
How were Isaac and Jacob brought into the world?
How were the 12 Sons of Jacob brought into the world?
How were the 12 Apostles brought into the world?

Jesus said which were born , not of blood, nor of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. That he was the light of the world. That he was the true light that lighteth every man that comes into the world. That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit.

Answer 8

Don't believe everything you hear from nuns, priests, or anyone else, unless you can confirm it in the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church.

The church has definitively explained that every Catholic must accept that we all descended from the original human couple that we call Adam and Eve.

The nature of Adam's sin has never been revealed, but we know that the effect of that sin was to separate humanity from God, and make it necessary for God to send his son to redeem us.

I suggest you spend some time with the Bible and the catechism in order to clarify some of the things you may have been taught so far.

Either you haven't been listening, or you're studying in the wrong convent.

If you're confused, send for my free Catholic Resource CD, which covers the entire issue of sin, death, and redemption in complete detail, and from a thoroughly Catholic perspective.

Answer 9

What you teacher was trying to explain was that When the bible speaks of partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you are reading what is called a metaphor. Knowledge of good and evil is a metaphoric reference to judgment. When you judge something you attempt to determine if it is acceptable or not. In effect you are deciding if it is good or evil from your point of view. It has nothing at all to do with sex.

Once we were just like the animals and recognized that everything in the garden that God had given us was good. At some point we started to judge some thing as being better than others are. This set up a situation where something’s were more appealing to us than others. We started wishing for these things and were no longer happy with some of the other things in the garden.

This is what is referred to as the fall of man, or separation from God. Some references actually call this the detour into insanity. This self-induced separation from the knowledge of the perfection of god’s gifts to us was never shared by the animals. They were too smart to fall for this silly idea and were not fooled by the ideas of good and evil. For this reason they exist along side of us still experiencing the perfection of the garden. While we have excluded ourselves with our ideas of judgment. This is a truly fascinating subject that has many interesting facets. Including how to reverse the process and return to the original state. If you feel the need to discuss it further send an email.

Love and blessings.
don

Answer 10

I think so.
Adam and Eve may have existed, but the story of the fall in the Garden of Eden is meant to teach us how we succumb to temptation, how we deal with it, how God deals with, how we grow from childish selfishness into responsible adulthood, how our metaphysical outlook governs our response to the world, and how the course of the sun through the solar year is emblematic of salvation.

Still, the little details of the Adam and Even story indicate that they really existed (but may have just been the oldest known generation in the Hebrew genealogy). The valley of Eden is still there in northern Iran at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, the other rivers are present as well, ove of which encicles a region known as "Cush" in ancient times, the region known as "Nodz" (or "Nod") is still there at the east of Eden, and the ancient inhabitants of the region were known as the "Chrubim."

And no one should be surprised that a nun said that. The Roman Catholic Church officially endorses the theory of theistic evolution.