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Is it sensible to think that Adam and Eve had steatopygia and that we'd all have it now had they not sinned?
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Steatopygia is believed to be an adaptive physiological feature for female humans living in hot environments, as it maximises the bodily surface area/volume ratio but keeps enough fat to produce hormones needed for menstruation. In the African savanna, where food shortages are common during the dry season, it allows people live on their stored fat. The people of the ancient Near East, where the Garden of Eden is usually pictured, never adapted their fat storage in this way.
It would be far more sensible to follow the early Church Father, Origen, who accepted that the story of Adam and Eve did not really represent human history (On First Principles, 3.1.1):
"Now what man of intelligence will believe that the first and the second and the third day, and the evening and the morning existed without the sun and moon and stars? And that the first day if we may so call it, was even without a heaven? And who is so silly as to believe that God, after the manner of a farmer, "planted a paradise eastward in Eden", and set in it a visible and palpable "tree of life", of such a sort that anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain life: and again that one could partake of "good and evil" by masticating the fruit taken from the tree of that name? And when God is said to "walk in the paradise in the cool of the day" and Adam to hide himself behind a tree, I do not think anyone will doubt that these are figurative expressions which indicate certain mysteries through a semblance of history and not through actual events."
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Where did you get life?
From Adam and Eve. Adam was the first person in the earth. And eve was the second. they multiplied. And do you know what? Eve, and Adam sinned(they ate the fruit of good and knowlege) because they sinned, that is why there is pain when women give birth.
When were jackets invented?
Good question.... i would think that jackets were invented at the same time as clothes were (which was in the garden on Eden after Adam and Eve sinned)
Did Adam have children before he sinned?
Yes Abel and cain.
What is the original nature of Adam?
The original nature of Adam was perfect and without sin. Adam and Eve sinned when they ate forbidden fruit.
Where is it found in the Bible Adam say I have sinned?
If the question you are asking is "Where does it say in the Bible that Adam says I have sinned", the answer is: nowhere. The bible does not say that Adam said you have sinned.The Bible does state that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). According to the Bible, only the Lord has been born to this world without sin.
Why does it say that Adam sinned and Eve's transgression?
No both did sin in the garden of Eden.
In bewitched is Adam a mortal?
immortal; he would have lived in the garden of eden forever if he hadn't sinned. when he sinned, he became mortal.
After Adam and Eve sinned what did god make for them after they sinned?
Adam and Eve separated themselves from God's perfect world, and brought about physical suffering and pain to Adam and Eve and all people that followed them.
What did God offer Adam and Eve despite their sin?
When God discovered that Adam and Eve had sinned he offered them clothing. This demonstrated His grace.
If Adam and Eve never sinned then would man have continued to procreate and populate the earth for eternity?
No if Adam and Eve had not sinned they would not populate the earth. We must remember Eves punishment after her sin was that she and all ladies would bear the pain of child labour.
Why is it not clear that Adam and Eve would have lived forever if they had not sinned against God?
Because they're naughty.
When did John the Baptist sin?
He sinned first because he was born man, so he carried Adam's sin.
