Theist Poll: Did God...?

[Clintone]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

I don't recall the Bible saying they were farmers, lol, although I think Cain and Abel were supposed to be. I used to have a theory that Adam and Eve represented the first modern hominids, when humans attained a 'God-consciousness', a sort of epiphany, and went from hunter-gatherers to 'modern man', i.e. the dawn of civilisation happened in Mesopotamia where Eden was believed to be. Or that they were the first homo-sapiens, and what came before them was one of our ape forebearers.

I thought of it in the following way, regardless of whether or not this was what it was intended to be a metaphor for:

Abel represented the nomadic hunters and gatherers.
Cain represented a more large-scale society of farmers. (due to the offerings they each gave to God)

I don't know if this was what the authors of the Bible intended or not, but I thought the Cain and Abel story seemed kind of like a metaphor for more advanced, larger, farming communities conquering the smaller nomadic communities.

[Padgett2]

Do we have any evidence that Adam and Eve needed to eat?

If God wanted them for companions, maybe he never intended that they would die from lack of food. After all, couldn't he just snap his fingers and there the food would be. He's all powerful, you know!