Were Adam and Eve bald when they were created?

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EarnestQ

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I am sure their hair follicles were perfectly healthy, but why would God give them hair? How long was their hair? Was their hair the same length?

Did Adam have a beard? If he had hair then why would God create him with a close shaved beard? Did they have hair on the rest of their bodies? How hairy were their bodies?
 

tourist

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It was only after they sinned that it turned into a hairy situation.
 
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Uhh... Interesting thread :D

Im not sure we can know all this. Hang on to Jesus and once you are in glory, ask Him
 

tourist

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Then there is this to consider.

[SUP] [/SUP]Gen27:11
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man".
 

EarnestQ

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SO which one was closest to Adam?

Since God created them without clothes, maybe they were very hairy.
 
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BeyondET

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Arrg hair in the garden no way. lol
 

EarnestQ

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After they had been alive for a few months, how did they cut their hair? They didn't have any scissors. They probably didn't even have a dull knife. Cutting their hair with a rock sounds kind of painful.
 

seoulsearch

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I am sure their hair follicles were perfectly healthy, but why would God give them hair? How long was their hair? Was their hair the same length?

Did Adam have a beard? If he had hair then why would God create him with a close shaved beard? Did they have hair on the rest of their bodies? How hairy were their bodies?
After they had been alive for a few months, how did they cut their hair? They didn't have any scissors. They probably didn't even have a dull knife. Cutting their hair with a rock sounds kind of painful.
I certainly don't have the answers, but this is actually a very interesting question.

With as much debate as I've seen over how short a man needs to keep his hair to be considered a man, and how long a woman needs to keep her hair to still be considered feminine enough to meet Biblical standards, I would actually love to know the answers, if they were ever available to us.

Now this thread has me wondering if God issued some kind of decree over how long or short Adam and Eve were to keep their hair, as one of the ways to "adequately" display their masculinity/femininity (besides nudity, of course :rolleyes:.)

Did God tell Adam he had to cut his hair every 3 weeks?! And did He also tell Eve she had to keep her hair at least shoulder-length?!

It's a fascinating speculation, especially since I went to Christian schools while I was growing up and they were very adamant about how short the boys had to keep their hair in order to keep from being seen as obvious heathen troublemakers.

One of the boys in the grade ahead of me grew a "tail" one year when they were popular... and our teacher promptly cut it off during class. (And yes, the boy's mother had a field day over that one.)
 

hornetguy

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Yes, as I recall, they were both bald.

Eve looked a little like Sinead O'Conner in her younger years. Adam resembled Dwayne Johnson, but without the tattoos...
 
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BeyondET

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After they had been alive for a few months, how did they cut their hair? They didn't have any scissors. They probably didn't even have a dull knife. Cutting their hair with a rock sounds kind of painful.
God "the Barber" used lightning scissors.

 

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After they had been alive for a few months, how did they cut their hair? They didn't have any scissors. They probably didn't even have a dull knife. Cutting their hair with a rock sounds kind of painful.
That's a very interesting question. I don't think that they went to Great Clips, that's for sure.
 
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Miri

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I like deep thinking. lol

Hair is another one - did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? :D
 

seoulsearch

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I like deep thinking. lol

Hair is another one - did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? :D
Did the trees in the Garden of Eden have growth rings, since they were presumably adult trees? (Sorry, this was actually brought up one day in my old Christian grade school.)

Now back to your regularly scheduled program... of theoretically hairless humans. :D
 
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Miri

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They must have had some sort of scissor implement to cut finger and
toe nails with. Unless they bit their own toe nails.
 

tanakh

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Its one of the many things the Bible doesnt tell us about. Perhaps a Vidal Sassoon type was created. Going further how did sheep keep trimmed? One could go on forever.
 
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1Tim 1: 3As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, 4nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. 5But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, 7wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

Selah.