Were adam and eve vegitarians?!
Answers: many people say to me that "god" put animals hear for people to eat, so if that were true were the so called first humans adam and eve vegitarians or did they eat meat. does the bible say anything on this subject?
Yes, The bible is very clear on this subject actually! In the beginning God granted Adam and Eve only plants to eat. After the flood which was almost 700 years later, God granted Noah and all mankind Meat.
yeppers all i have ever heard is that Adam and eve were veggies.. there was no need for violence in the garden of Eden.. food was bountifully and they never had a need to kill anything.. and remember.. the bible also says "thou shall not kill"
I dont know much about EVE
but Adam was Veg
He ate APPLE
yes, they were all vegitarians (their children; Cain, Able, etc.) ....... after the flood (Noah's time) God then decreed that man could eat meat
The 1st people alive were not called Adam and Eve, they probably didn't even have names and lived hundreds of thousands of years ago....... and there were no 2 people that started the human race, otherwise we'd all be so inbred we would have hardly survived the first few generations past Adam and Eve!
I stay away from using storybooks to defend my diet anyway so it doesn't matter to me what people say God tells them to do. Since there's thousands of religions on this planet God is telling a lot of people a LOT of different things. God tells some not to eat any meat at all and tells others to not only eat meat but to sacrifice some to him and then he tells yet more people to only eat certain kinds of meat because others are "unclean" and you'll go to Hell.
no i dont think so!~
Adam and Eve are mythical figures originating from mystic Judaism. I am assuming that you ask this question because you are interested in the original, natural diet that our ancestors ate before industrialization and global trade.
Conventional wisdom says that the so-called Cavemen and Women ate a diet high in meat. This is untrue. Hunting in pre-historic times was highly difficult and only during certain seasons. Meat was, therefore, a treat. Their primary diet consisted of berries, nuts and fruits and was supplemented by animal protein when they could get it.
The human body is capable of digesting meat. If we couldn’t digest it, we wouldn’t eat it. However, we benefit more (healthwise) from vegetation. Fruits and vegetables clean out the colon as well as provide powerful nutrients that our bodies need.
If you want to eat a diet beneficial for your body and mind, eat predominately vegetables, fruits, whole natural grains and supplement occasionally with healthy animal protein sources like fish. Remember as well that fish oil (the omega 3) is highly beneficial for our brain and heart and certain oils like olive oil are healthy.
We humans are meant to eat a plethora of foods. We are part of a grand eco-system that provides for us. People taking an almost religious like attitude about food deprivation end up harming their bodies and minds.
In short, you know it’s good for you if it truly makes you feel good. Not the “high” like a drug (like the effect that processed sugar has) but the feeling of high, natural energy and mental clarity that comes when you eat intuitively.
As a far as mythical figures and their diets are concerned, I wouldn’t use them as examples. Afterall, didn’t Zeus eat his own children?
Adam and Eve were the ficticious creations of stories in the old testament to try to explain the creation of the world in a religious context.
They were not real people and as such declaring them veggie or not has no relavence.
Who knows! The bible doesn't say anything on the subject.
yes, vegan
Adam and Eve are fictitious characters - the first 'people' on earth evolved from apes, and so therefore may have been vegetarian until their brains had developed enough to figure out they could eat animals.
are you all so naive to believe that God only created 2 people? They werent the only two he put on earth to start our repoduction line, they were just the FIRST TWO. God isn't stupid and knows what he is doing.
and for the answer: vegans probably.
well, imaginary people can only eat imaginary things. But rest assured, no one ever imagined a factory farm in the garden of eden.
Ask yourself this, why would God Create Adam and Eve as vegans and yet his only son ate fish at the last super? Sounds contridictory right!
The storybook entities Adam & Eve were vegetarians. It wasn't until Noah that "god" gave the "OK" to eat the animals.
blazing---I see you're latching on to the recent invention to take incest out of the creationist equation.
adam---I am an atheist as well. I think you should know that Adam & Eve had more than 2 children though. Check it out!
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Theoretically they were before the fall as there was suppose to be no death. They did not wear animal skins until after their first major transgression as they were so innocent they did not even realize that they were naked.
To me this shows even ancient man realized a closer state to God meant causing no being to suffer, man or animal alike.
Edit: Here is a copy and paste of an answer I gave to is God Ok with vegetarianism. It has many relevant quotes and rational to make a more than good case that such as lifestyle is ultimately how we are meat to be.
"First off I should mention I do not see the Torah to be an infallible piece of literature. It does however have bits of truth and red herring along the way.
With this said I think it interesting before there was sin and death that there was no consumption of animals. To me this makes sense. Eden being the closest representation of heaven on earth there should be no suffering there, not even of animals.
Believe it or not, it is extremely painful for a animal to go through the slaughtering process. Imagine your throat being slit and while you are still alive to be striped of your skin and limbs. Obviously no fun at all.
I do believe in a higher power. One that I do not believe who can be codified by any one book or religion. I believe this God for lack of a better word is much better of a being that many a person has projected upon him/her (God being spirit transcends gender but has qualities of both).
Such I God I believe allows us to create suffering for our own benefit. I believe this is all part of a karmic process. As we cause suffering for others that suffering is reflected back upon ourselves. In time (eternity if I might ad) we wake up to these sufferings and how they relate to our actions and mind set.
I believe one such revelation that a person reaches on the road to enlightenment is to not cause unnecessary suffering. I believe it to be unnecessary suffering to kill and animal and eat it when there are other options available. Even in Christianity there were large movements such as the Cathars who were primarily vegetarians until Pope "Innocent" the third wiped them out.
Unfortunately religion like evolution is sometimes dominated by those who are the most aggressive and callous. Those who were persecuted and marginalized were nearly wiped out, and those who were willing to be violent thrived.
Fortunately I am a spiritual optimist, that is in the end of ends. I truly do believe the meek will inherit the earth in which veganism is a part of what it means to truly be spiritual gentle and right with God.
"Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
-- Isaiah 2: 2-4 (KJV)
"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child will put his hand into the viper's nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the wasters cover the seas". Isaiah 11:6-9"
I have learned this in "Sunday school", we had to memorize certain parts of the bible:
1. First there was the paradise, and there were animals and plants and humans living peacefully together. They could be all named vegans, even the animals did not eat each other, they all lived on the abundance of plant foods in the Garden of Eden.
2. Then the happenings around the apple (the "first sin") caused Adam and Eve to be thrown out of paradise. Now they had to grow their food, working hard in the fields, clothe themselves in animal skins and hunt too (if necessary). All this was described as a "punishment" and "loosing the paradise". Now humans and animals were enemies, and also animals did eat each other.
It is not described however why there were animals outside of the paradise, since it was only Adam and Eve who where thrown out. But I can remember well that all descendants of them were offering animals to God (read the story about Kain and Abel, they both offered animals to God, but Kain was punished for "cheating" on him, giving him the wrong meat parts, like intestinals - and after the punishment, out of envy and hate, Kain killed Abel).
So you could say, first Adam and Eve were vegetarians (vegans), and then, after being forced to leave the paradise, they had to start to eat meat to survive, if there were not enough plants they could grow.
THey were vegans.. GOd told them to eat from the trees, etc...
God never said anything about eating animals until the flood (for obvious reasons—plant life took time to re-grow) and incidentally, the lifespan went from 600 years to around 120 VERY quickly after that (within a couple generations)
I remember my mother saying that, but I'm not sure where she got it the idea from. I have heard at least a few Christians say that as well. I vaguely recall something about people not eating meat until they got out of the Garden of Eden but I haven't been able to find a passage in the Bible that clearly says this. I could see how somebody might interpret it that way, but some other people might interpret it in a different way.
Maybe some churches or individual ministers teach that, or maybe it's just some people's personal belief.
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
-Genesis 1:29-30, New International Vestion.
As an agnostic, I don't take much stock in what the Bible has to say--in any version. But a common joke among vegetarians was that God's original plan was to hang out in the garden with two naked vegetarians.
DanaRae is wrong. Meat wasn't a treat. In prehistoric times, people didn't even have enough knowledge of farming, thus they had to have meat. Their non-meat products constisted of berries here and there...not enough to sustain life or anything. So, they had to eat meat in order to survive. Our first ancestors were hunter gatherers. If DanaRae would have paid attention in history, he or she would have known that humans existed during a difficult ice age time and had to have meat. So to say that meat was a treat is a foolish obligation. If our ancestors didn't need meat, we wouldnt' be omnivores.
According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were vegans while they were in the Garden of Eden. When they were expelled from the Garden of Eden the Lord told them to eat of the herb of the field.
Curiously, God gave Adam and Eve coats of skins of animals to wear when they left. Their son Abel was a keeper of sheep, but there is no specific mention of what he did with the sheep other than use them for offerings.