Did Adam and Eve eat pork?

[Onkara]

Is there any scriptural proof that they didn't?

 

[Smoke]

If Genesis is to be believed, the concept of clean and unclean animals was known to Noah, and God didn't give explicit permission to eat whatever you want until after the Flood.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Adam and Eve were vegetarians according to Genesis. It says they would work the earth by the sweat of their foreheads and reap their food from it.

 

[Thief]

Man, as created on Day Six had no restrictions.

 

[Thief]

And you might also consider the teeth in his head.
Incisors and canines are for meat eating.

If he was vegetarian, his teeth would not be like ours.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Thief I could argue just as well that our bodies take 24 hours to digest meat, but only 30-to an hour to digest plants. Animals who are primarily canivores digest meat much faster.

 

[Daniel09]

I see meat-eating as a developed survival mechanism from years of no edible plant material, like an ice age or something. While now we do have the capability to eat and digest meat, I don't think it's meant to be a big part of the diet, and surely if adam and eve did eat, it would not have been meat. They wouldn't have had much reason to eat it.

 

[Thief]

Well then...what kind of teeth did Man have on Day Six?

Really?

 

[Levite]

Many midrashim (Jewish exegetical parables) and commentaries (such as those of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook) have suggested that until the generation of the Flood, all people were vegetarians, and it was only with Noah, when all around him were eating meat, that God began to tell people that if they were going to eat meat, it would be preferable to limit the consumption of flesh to certain animals.

 

[Onkara]

It is a pitty there are no photogrpahs of day six to be sure about the size of teeth, who knows maybe they will dig some up oneday

Seriously, Thanks for the answers everyone! I will take it that man began with food from the soil and later moved to meat, at which point it was restricted

 

[Thief]

So...no one noticed....

After Day Six....After Day Seven....comes Chapter Two....
And there in rises the occasion when Man, decides to wear something.
And is it not God that gives to Man...animal skins.

The Book is not clear, and does not use the term...leather.
With animal skin on his back, Man is exposed to blood, and it's acquisition.
If it be leather...that indicates a long standing practice of killing animals.

Either way, that relationship, taking animal life for clothing, leans firmly to the practice of taking animal life for food.

And if you're inclined to NOT believe, evolution...
Then Man was made to eat meat.
He has the teeth for it.

 

[Onkara]

Very interesting points, Thief

 

[Daniel09]

See, the thing about this point made is that if people ate meat constantly, then animals would have easily been wiped out. Used as clothing, it does not take many deaths to create. In a land fertile with edible plants and fish, it would seem against reason for people to go out and hunt animals for consumption's sake unless there was a massive population boom and there was scarcity of food. We have teeth for grinding and a little for tearing, but even our teeth are primarily plant-based chewers. Since most humans would get sick from mauling an animal to death and eating it's flesh raw, I find that it seems highly unlikely that meat-eating is a natural application for our bodies. On the other hand, fish is edible raw, though simply more sanitary when cooked.

((Of course, I also don't believe in using a questionable book for historical outlooks, but that's just me))

 

[Thief]

See, the thing about this point made is that if people ate meat constantly, then animals would have easily been wiped out. Used as clothing, it does not take many deaths to create. In a land fertile with edible plants and fish, it would seem against reason for people to go out and hunt animals for consumption's sake unless there was a massive population boom and there was scarcity of food. We have teeth for grinding and a little for tearing, but even our teeth are primarily plant-based chewers. Since most humans would get sick from mauling an animal to death and eating it's flesh raw, I find that it seems highly unlikely that meat-eating is a natural application for our bodies. On the other hand, fish is edible raw, though simply more sanitary when cooked.

((Of course, I also don't believe in using a questionable book for historical outlooks, but that's just me))

I can't support your viewpoint. Not one sentence of it.
How about you?

 

[Daniel09]

I can't support your viewpoint. Not one sentence of it.
How about you?

What is wrong with my assertions? I can show you a number of different nutritional sites if you want, all stating that fruits and vegetables are meant to be the majority of the diet. There is very little requirement for meats. Now, fish are a requirement because they have Omega 3 fatty acids which are used by our bodies to promote brain function. Other meats have the other stuff, but not the brain food like fish. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

 

[Thief]

What is wrong with my assertions? I can show you a number of different nutritional sites if you want, all stating that fruits and vegetables are meant to be the majority of the diet. There is very little requirement for meats. Now, fish are a requirement because they have Omega 3 fatty acids which are used by our bodies to promote brain function. Other meats have the other stuff, but not the brain food like fish. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Okay....take aim at Adam and Eve.

As I read Genesis....Man is created as a species on Day Six.
There are no restrictions...no law...no names....
Everything is fair game.
I more than suspect this is also the time of Man's evolution.

Day Seven...the creation process stops. God rests.
But apparently Man was behaving too much like an animal.

Chapter Two happens after Day Seven.
It is not a retelling of Chapter One.
The events of Chapter Two have all the earmarks of a science experiment.
Adam is a chosen son of God.
Cloned and given his twin sister for a bride. Eve had no navel.
The Garden is only a very large petri dish.

Having altered Man's body...and his mind by the acquisition of knowledge...
Man is turned loose on the earth...in a new form.

But his teeth were not worked on.
Eating meat is something higher forms of life do....a lot.
That we now know our bodies can do well enough on less meat....
doesn't mean that Man was intended to do so on Day Six.

That you have canine teeth marks you as a meat eater.
Whether you participate or not.

 

[Daniel09]

Okay....take aim at Adam and Eve.

As I read Genesis....Man is created as a species on Day Six.
There are no restrictions...no law...no names....
Everything is fair game.
I more than suspect this is also the time of Man's evolution.

Day Seven...the creation process stops. God rests.
But apparently Man was behaving too much like an animal.

Chapter Two happens after Day Seven.
It is not a retelling of Chapter One.
The events of Chapter Two have all the earmarks of a science experiment.
Adam is a chosen son of God.
Cloned and given his twin sister for a bride. Eve had no navel.
The Garden is only a very large petri dish.

Having altered Man's body...and his mind by the acquisition of knowledge...
Man is turned loose on the earth...in a new form.

But his teeth were not worked on.
Eating meat is something higher forms of life do....a lot.
That we now know our bodies can do well enough on less meat....
doesn't mean that Man was intended to do so on Day Six.

That you have canine teeth marks you as a meat eater.
Whether you participate or not.

Sources? Fish is meat and healthy, and it is very well known that red meats and such are very bad for people.

 

[Valjean]

Human canines are all but vestigial, Theif. Even if we had protruding snouts and a wide gape they'd be useless. And our incisors are just as handy for eating apples as they are for eating animals.
Our dentition, and the rest of our digestive system as well, reflects the fact that our hands have effectively become part of our food procurement and processing system, as well as the use of fire to cook food.

 

[Thief]

Human canines are all but vestigial, Theif. Even if we had protruding snouts and a wide gape they'd be useless. And our incisors are just as handy for eating apples as they are for eating animals.
Our dentition, and the rest of our digestive system as well, reflects the fact that our hands have effectively become part of our food procurement and processing system, as well as the use of fire to cook food.

My ancestors grew up with fire.
They used it to cook meat.

Are you wanting to ignore Genesis?

 

[rusra02]

And you might also consider the teeth in his head.
Incisors and canines are for meat eating.

If he was vegetarian, his teeth would not be like ours.

Incisors and canines are only for eating meat? Is that your argument that Adam was not a vegatarian? Certainly these teeth have value in tearing and biting fruits, nuts and vegetables. The Bible says Adam and Eve originally were given only fruits and other vegatation as their diet. Incidentally, all animals were apparently vegatarians at that time (Genesis 1:29) Once they sinned against God, there still is no indication in the Bible they ate meat. Only after the Flood did God explcitly give Noah permission to eat meat, with the proviso that blood should not be eaten. (Genesis 9:1-4)