Question: Bible Adam and Eve

God must have made other people too. how else would there be cave people...

So do you think that Adam and Eve looked like cave people?

Larry may be right, Right. Also who did Cain and Able marry? Not their sisters.
And they were forbidden to marry the children of the angels, nor take the women of the animals as wives.
So many new rules. They probably wanted to just go back to the garden!

The allegory idea would make me say, yes they looked like cave people. They are a representative of the first humans.
(I don't believe the Bible to be THE WORD, it is man's story handed down and down and down. There are some similarities to what we surmise: Fiat Lux (there shall be light) and the Big Bang. Eating from the Tree of Knowledge (and therefore expulsion from the garden) and Homo-sapiens= man with knowledge, no longer of the animal kingdom. And so on.
Moses tracked down and killed "the giants" and modern discoverys indicate homo-sapiens (at 5 foot 5) ganged up on and wiped out Cro-Magnon (a 6 foot tall species of man.) And on it goes.

I don't believe the looked much different than they cave men it there was cave men.

Question back at you.....did God give the cavemen a women before the made Eve from Adams rib.....?????

I don't believe that cave men were any different from the rest,They just had a different life style, There certain tribes of people that still live in caves, like there are people that live in cardboard boxes, I guess in future generations they will be known as the Box people. lol

OK just remember I am a lay person, not a scientist or a preacher (so I'll probably offend both with my simplistic version.)
Cave people are often portrayed as hulking dumb club carrying pre-humans. In reality some of the human ancestors, such as Cro-magnon were tall, developed very sophisticated weapons such as dart throwers and spear throwers. The massive skull bones of the Neaderthal may be why that version of a lowbrowed, heavily muscled creature-like man was a caveman.
The origin of the word cavemen is believed by many to be based on the discovery of paleolithic era cave drawings. In France one of the first men to use the word was a priest who allegedly set about destroying what he found in the caves because it conflicted with the dates and descriptions of the Bible.
In reality it is doubtful these people lived in the caves, but instead used them as temples for their religious worship.
The Bible allegory of Adam and Eve was important in that they "left the garden" in otherwords they were no longer like the animals, therefore were human.
Most scientists categorize the rise of Hom-sapiens (man with knowledge) as the final ascent (thus far) of mankind from the animal kingdom.

James, thank you for taking the time to explain that. I was trying to figure out if Adam and Eve looked like the the Neaderthals. You make a lot of sence. Thank you.

Adam and Eve were more garden people than caves...

I think much has been said about this and one can argue about it, like other things in the Bible, but I think these theology ponderings and arguments are a distraction As and example: I don't care what fish Jesus used when he broke up the few loaves and fishes to the crowds, more is the miracle that he had more left than he started out with...and that is the point, the miracle. I don't believe a few people brought their lunch which happened to be fish and some bread and added it to what was being passed around. People can try to "humanize" the Bible, but the whole point is faith and belief.

When we try to prove or disprove or make explanations we miss the wonder of it all.

How many people debate whether the chicken or the egg came first? Because he made Adam a man, and it says he created the animals, I think the chicken came first.... but my point is people take things and twist them to their hearts content and can be very surface about it.

When people hear God made the heavens and earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th they say impossible. But yet God's definition of a day is much different than ours. Our day is based on the sun and the moon and earths orbit. Why limit God to our ideas of what a day is. After all during he time he created the earth, etc....he must have already had his "day" in place...

Many times I feel it is easier for a flea to figure out the dog it rides upon than for mankind to figure out God. Gives one food for thought.

That is excellent Heather. I could not have said it any better.

unfortunately it also says He hung the moon in the sky to light the night and hung the sun in the sky to light the day. Which made sense until we discovered the earth is a rotating ball, as is the moon which simply reflects the suns light.
Can one either humanize the Bible (IMHO) or reject it outright as fantasy as the only choices?.
I tend to believe it is an amalgam of myths, science of its time, some truths and oral tradition.
P.S. how many of you have the Maccabees story in your Bible?
The anti-semitic Luther refused to translate that story and others about "jewish heroes."
So much for infallibility.

Time is nothing to God, He didn't have to labor hard for 6 days to create everything, He spoke into existence. as far as time is concerned is that a day is as a thousand year to God, and a thousand years is as a day.

Another excellent comment/post Jasper. I als agree with this about what God is and what He can do. He did not have to create the world in 6 days, but He chose to show us His awesomeness and so much more.

Thanks for the post .

very interesting question
I don't think that the impression we are given of cave people would have been necessary in the perfection of the garden of Eden. The reason for the way they looked was partly for protection from the elements right ?
I don't know but you sure got me thinking : )