Were Adam & Eve cavemans?

Question

Can someone please help me find sense in this story... If Adam & Eve were the first humans to walk on this planet, were they created after the extinction of the dinosaurs?

Answer 1

Adam was the first man.

Eve the first Woman.

They were created after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Our bible refers to our history. Not the dinosaurs history.

Apparently, G-d didnt think the life story of the first amoeba was that great of a history lesson/teaching tool.

Speaking of which, do you have a link of a transitional form between monkey and man?

Or just the monkeys, and just the men?

Answer 2

The beautiful thing about religion is that it was created by man at a time when enlightenment was imminent and, quite frankly, everyone was looking for something, anything, to explain the phenomena of this world. The most important thing to realize is that all of the major religions were created in this manner, and that no one religion will ever be 100% correct. As for Adam and eve, they may have existed...they may not have existed...they may even simply be the symbolic representation of spirituality...or possibly they were just some street peddlers who paid their way into a man made book known as the Bible (yes, it is historically accurate that the Bible was indeed written by simply men--it is even stated within the book itself) but they very well could have indeed been a caveman and a cavewoman. As for existing through the period of the dinosaurs, no remains of human life have been found relatively close to that period, so it is very unlikely that they would have existed in that time period seeing as many factors such as being eaten, their garden being trampled by dinosaurs, and of course the extinction of dinosaurs exist (I doubt they would have survived any sort of a nuclear winter via comets or anything of the sort). But does it really matter? As long as you have something you believe in, anything--a god, a prophet, even an alien from another galaxy--all that matters is that you do believe.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve didn't exist. The story is a myth that seems to be a way of explaining why hardships came into the world, and - like the Greek Pandora myth - women are blamed. The cultures that devised these myths considered men as godlike and women as inherently sinful, and were punished by being cursed to bear children, and Leviticus makes them ritually unclean during menstruation (still called "the curse" by some). Part of the punishment was to toil with the land. So there's an element of explaining the change from nomadism to farming, which then led to villages and towns illustrated in the myth of Cain and Abel. The serpent bit seems to explain why snakes crawl on their bellies. Cain (aka Kabil) offered crops and Abel (aka Habil) offered livestock. Neolithic man my have farmed livestock before planting crops, and there may been conflict between those who grew crops and those who kept livestock about the use of land. The myth may have reflected this conflict. But civilisation developed from crop farming. And Cain built a city, naming it after his son Enoch. So the description of God favouring one brother's sacrifice over the other, and the consequential killing (perhaps a symbol of war), and the building of a city, might originally have been a symbolic rendering of how civilisation developed in the Middle East. Myths are what they are and should be enjoyed as such; if we can understand the peoples who devised the myths, and where they derived them from, Sumerians for example, that enhances enjoyment.

Answer 4

No. It's allegorical. Adam means red earth and Eve means life. This is ancient symbolism going back to the Egyptians and Mediteraneans. The Egyptians had a flood story and after the flood there was a mound of earth with a tree and a woman on it. If you look you can find this in pictures and religious symbolism. Snakes are genius and juno...ancestry, genes, or whatever.

Answer 5

Maybe Adam and Eve were not the first homosapiens on the planet, but they were the first to be created in the image of God.

Answer 6

No there are lots of references in the Bible to dinosauers.

However the word used was "dragon" to describe them.

Adam and Eve were created after dinosauers, but they are mentioned many times in the Old Testament.

Before and After the flood.

Pastor Art

Answer 7

Yes, some dinasaurs existed then as some even exist today. There have been instances where the footprints of man, not ape, are alongside footprints of dinasaurs in mud turned to sandstone. Caves were much easier to defend then tents and a lot of defense was required. Cain even got a special mark from God so his need for defense wouldn't be greater than others.

Answer 8

Many people have wondered also. If God created Adam as an Adult and Eve also as an Adult,there is no indication in the Bible that they were cave-man and woman. It is mentioned in the Bible that God created the heavens and earth, land water, all species of mammal and fish, that was created after all animals were created, Said "Let us create man in our image"

Answer 9

They are a myth used to explain the ways of the world as well as possible by people who had little science and no knowledge of dinosaurs (see Giants and Dragons for explainations of occasional large bones.)

Answer 10

They were not the first. That's why the word 'replenish' is found in Gen-1:28 but u are right in that the record of the beginning described in the bible is after the last meteorite shower.