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Random Friday question

posted by David Kuo | 2:27pm Friday September 7, 2007

Did Adam have a belly button?
He wasn’t “born”…so?
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Doug

posted September 7, 2007 at 2:48 pm


That is a superb question, well-suited for Friday. Since Adam was made in God’s image, it might depend on whether the almighty has a belly button. Maybe ask James Kennedy.
Regardless, how I vote in ’08 depends on the answer.



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Thinker

posted September 7, 2007 at 2:59 pm


LOL – Doug
Adam as a mythological first man – the important part was that humanity was created out of profound love – no belly button needed for mythological figures. My question – OK so who did Cain and Able and Seth marry? (and that is the question that got me kicked out of Sunday School when I was four. My mother was told not to bring me back. I had too many questions)



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David Kuo

posted September 7, 2007 at 3:31 pm


Now Thinker, stay with this Friday’s random question. We’ll save yours for a future Friday. ;-)



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Thinker

posted September 7, 2007 at 8:07 pm


OK, so check the Sistine Chapel. I believe he has one there.



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Matt

posted September 10, 2007 at 11:29 am


As per my church’s former associate pastor, who posted an answer to this very question on a church forum some time ago:
“Of course they did. Eve had an innie and Adam had an outie. However, they won’t tell me how they got them. I think they felt like they didn’t fit in and so the asked God nicely and at last they got belly buttons. God saw it and said it was good.”
That’s Pastor Jay’s answer and good enough for me.



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recovering ex-Pentecostal

posted September 10, 2007 at 2:02 pm


Can an analogy, a metaphor, HAVE a belly button???
As for ‘fitting in’, there were no other humans in this allegory for them to ‘fit in’ with!
P.S. “Eve” was “Adam’s” second “wife”. Now ask if Lillith had a belly button.



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