After all he did have to name everything and with over a million different species of plants, animals, and insects that is alot of naming. Working 9-5, coming up with a new species name every 10 minutes would have taken at least 57 years.
2007-12-07 03:44:44 · 39 answers · asked by joezen777 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lol, I totally did include Sunday. It would have taken 9 years more.
2007-12-07 04:03:42 · update #1
An interesting thought Darth Eugene, that written language began with naming the animals because does anyone want to remember all that?
2007-12-07 04:12:57 · update #2
To me this is the one argument against the whole seven day thing. Stating the ridiculous of seven days to make the earth but that still doesn't mean anything since no one knows how long they were immortal and innocent.
2007-12-07 04:14:32 · update #3
Did you include Sunday, a day of rest, in your calculation? No, should leave out.
2007-12-07 03:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, Eve improve into created in uncomplicated terms a quick time after Adam because of the fact he mandatory a better half. It improve into God who made what occurred interior the backyard of Eden yet perhaps Adam had selective listening to like maximum men in the present day are and he chosen to no longer hear to the serpent yet Eve.
2016-10-01 02:07:13 · answer #2 · answered by cluff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam named all the animals / plants he had the opportunity to see, all those living within the Garden of Eden. With that he started to created the first human language. You may substract for that number those living far away from the Garden of Eden such like all flora and fauna under the seas.
How long until they sin? No figure is given. I never thought Genesis chapter 3 ocurred just one day after Genesis chapter 2. No data regarding if that took place 2 years, 20, or 100 years after his creation day.
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Adam did ate from fruit, just he was not the first one who ate from it. Eve took the first bite and then look for Adam and offerred it to him. Then he ate from the fruit too.
2007-12-07 03:58:50 · answer #3 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do you know how many species he had to name? He only named the livestock; the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, no plants or insects.
The Bible refers to "kinds" not species and it is likely that Adam could have named the "kinds" that all our current species come from in a few hours.
Look here if you're really interested.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i4/naming.asp
2007-12-07 03:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by Don 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question. Here's the answer. Time did not exist as we know it today, so there is no way to know.
Since he and Eve and the world were in concert with God, they could not die. If one cannot die, there is no reason to mark time, because one literally has all the time in the world; one exists outside of time.
Time started the moment Adam and Eve ate the fruit, because that sin instantly separated them and this world from God, thus starting physical decay and this world's entry into the dimension of time.
Now the Bible does mention that the sun was coming up and going down thus making days, but there was no need to count them before the fall.
That's my take on it anyway.
2007-12-07 03:52:47 · answer #5 · answered by Doc B 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, he didn't have his first children until he was around 130 (after they were kicked out of Eden) so somewhere between 57 and 130!
Perhaps Eden was outside the linear time as we know it, and Adam did not age while he was living there.
For those who are unclear on who ate the fruit...
They BOTH did - Eve saw it was good to eat, and took some and ate it, and gave it to her husband (Adam) and he ate it also. But the sin was Adam's because God forbade HIM to eat it, and he should've known better.
Forbidden fruit is NOT sex (that's just our modern sex-obsessed puritanical take on it). Adam and Eve were instructed to go forth, increase and multiply and fill the Earth (last time I checked, reproduction involves sex). This was BEFORE the fall. Sex, like everything else God created, was judged by God to be "very good"!
2007-12-07 03:51:50 · answer #6 · answered by Cathy T 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, he was the first guy, father of all guys: so he called all of the animals Bo, all of the insects no-see-ums, and all of the plants geraniums. Then he browsed around the garden a little about an hour after dinner and ate the apple the second he could not see something more convenient to eat ;).
2007-12-07 03:57:08 · answer #7 · answered by Amy R 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the story is metaphorical not literal. It represents the belief that man had a checkered past, and we didn't always have the principles and concepts of moral reasoning... It recognizes that at some point man became aware of right versus wrong, that at some point prior to this we were animal-like...and we didn't even care about being naked.
Of course they didn't have a word for evolution 2000 years ago, so naturally they blamed the advancement of humankind's newly recognized social skills on god and his "forbidden fruit"... the same way they blamed earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and any other unexplained phenomenon on god.
Point being.. it is a metaphorical interpretation of the evolution of mankind from starting out as a monkey faced caveman to becoming a being that questions their own existence and realizes they have free-will...and the moral concepts of right and wrong. Anyone who believes that a tree snake actually spoke to Adam should have their head examined.
2007-12-07 03:53:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The story of the garden of eden was originally written as a poem and was never meant to be taken literally - it was something to help the general thickies to understand the creation of the universe etc as best as scientists (wise men/preachers/spiritual leaders) understood science at the time...
so don't get hung up on times/dates or who adam's sons had babies with, or what happened to the dinosaurs etc.
Only the same general thickies today think the story is a factual account. maybe it would have been best if those ancient scientists just stopped trying to be so helpful and concentrated on inventing yahoo answers quicker :P
2007-12-07 03:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Did he name them all while he was there? As he was still able to live on earth after eating the forbidden fruit anyway.
A lot of what is written in the old testament of the bible is supposed to be looked at metaphorically anyway.
2007-12-07 03:50:04 · answer #10 · answered by Joe K 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
adam and eve didnt have the life span that we have now.. if you notice in the scriptures it was normal for a man to live much longer than we do... it doesn't say specifically how long adam and eve were in the garden but 57 years would probably not have even be half of adams life so it is not hard to believe that he spent a long time in there.
2007-12-07 03:48:23 · answer #11 · answered by Kyrstin 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋