Did Adam and Eve eat meat, before the "fall"?

[princessquitealot98]

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[WolfVanZandt]

But water sitting doesn't cause much erosion - only water flowing causes erosion. And, according to the Biblical account, it didn't take that long (in geological terms) for the waters to subside. THere isn't much erosion on the ocean bottom except where rivers enter.

But it seems that Jesus and the New Testament writiers took such things as the flood and even Jonah's sojourn in the whale as accomplished facts.

[Adam]

[Adam]

[princessquitealot98]

[Leslie]

[WolfVanZandt]

[Adam]

[Marcus_P_Hagen]

[Adam]

[AllanS]

Does this image present a true account of the raising of Lazarus?

I'm of the opinion that just as we have highly stylised visual images of Christ, our literary images are equally stylised. Why wouldn't they be?

[Noontidal]

Yes of course Abel was AFTER the fall, but only 'just'. and it shows that the first verifiable incidences of meat consumption to be pretty much straightway after the garden which could be indicative of an unbroken cycle. Yes, they might have been using the cattle for milk also, infact they probably were, but it's a major stretch to hold that they wouldn't also keep them for meat. The difference between meat consumption in the garden and out was more than likely 'harmful' bacteria, and the whole slaughtering mechanism may have been a little different.

As for the parts where God restricted certain meat from Isreal's diet, we can varify that those meats restricted curiously had a much higher potential for inciting desease if not cooked properly. But I suppose most would just say God was purely lucky in picking those ones out.


Jonah is really not nearly as unreasonable as many make it out to seem. First off, half a century ago there was denial that a city such as Nineveh could even exist, those have been quite effectively proven wrong. Next you have a number of incidences in Alaska and other northern lands where whaling is prevelant, where people have been eaten, and 18 hours later they fish up the animal cut it open, and low and behold, the guy's still alive, and not even digested, fancy that! So it's not such an unreasonable thing to suggest that a guy gets eaten by a fish with a bad case of indigestion and gets vomitted up 3 days later probably happened.

So far the score is:

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There are a lot of items in the Bible that in ancient times seemed quite ridiculous but with our increased scientific knowledge become actually quite doable. Unfortunately we have religious 'organizations' (not the churches the psuedo church) that makes silly claims not found in the Bible yet get attributed to such and result in a greater difficulty in presenting the truths regarding the Bible.

[Adam]

[Noontidal]