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Which language did JEWISH and CHRISTIAN Adam and Eve speak?

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Which language did JEWISH and CHRISTIAN Adam and Eve speak?

Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:20 am

The reason I say Jewish and Christian is because I'm beggining to understand that Islam also has an Adam and Eve. Anyway, this is something that has been bothering me for a while now. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, which language did they speak? After the tower of Babel, did the language that broke off remain the same for some people whilst others got a new language or did everyone get new languages? I looked it up on the net and it said it was Hebrew but I asked my grandfather who told me that according to the scriptures it is Arabic but no one knows, and I have only ever asked a hand full of Orthodox Christians (my religion) who told me that noone has any way of knowing. Anyway, please contribute! Also, if you do NOT belive the bible, please do not spam this thread. Feel free to post your belifes once. This is not a Christian and Jew vs Non-Christian and Non-Jew thread so please do not turn it into one! Thanks and happy discussing!

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Just to clarify because the trend of people being on my case about this is rasing, When I say Jewish and Christian Adam and Eve, I do NOT mean that they were either Jewish or Christian (whether or not they were is irrelevent in THIS thread), I mean the Adam and Eve Jews and Christians belive in. Also notice how I'm NOT saying worship either, because knowing NSG, you'll be going crazy about that too
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Postby Yootwopia » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:21 am

English, like in the Bible.
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Postby Sao Paulo do Campo de Piratininga » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:25 am

Portuguese, like in my bibl-oh wait, I don't read the bible.

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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:27 am

Yootwopia wrote:English, like in the Bible.

No way, they spoke American, just like Jesus did.
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Postby AnimalFarm » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:28 am

You can look at it from 2 sides:

1. Atheist - They didn't exist so we don't care.

2. Theist - The probably spoke some ancient language, which is the source of all languages. In the tower of Babel, where God gave everyone their language, he hide and destroyed it, so Hebrew, the succssesor of it, will rise. Some believe that the Adamic language (see on Wikipedia) is the language spoken by the Angels and God. Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars believe that this Adamic languages is probably a semitic language, such as Hebrew or Arabic.

Did I answe your question?
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Postby Desperate Measures » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:29 am

As much as you may try to ignore it, it is true. They spoke Muslimish.
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Postby Aethelstania » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:30 am

I doubt anyone would be able to work it out! I'm A christian, I don't believe in the Eden story its a metaphor so I don't think the language matters/is knowable although if you find out that is interesting !
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Postby Pax Franco » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:31 am

Islam has its own Adam and Eve creation myth because Islam is an Abrahamic religion. That means that it still believes in the Judeo-Chritso-Islamic "God."

The oldest known language on Earth is probably the clicking one (Source: Anthropology class)

So the earliest humans probably spoke that.
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Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:31 am

AnimalFarm wrote:You can look at it from 2 sides:

1. Atheist - They didn't exist so we don't care.

2. Theist - The probably spoke some ancient language, which is the source of all languages. In the tower of Babel, where God gave everyone their language, he hide and destroyed it, so Hebrew, the succssesor of it, will rise. Some believe that the Adamic language (see on Wikipedia) is the language spoken by the Angels and God. Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars believe that this Adamic languages is probably a semitic language, such as Hebrew or Arabic.

Did I answe your question?

Yes, but I'd love to keep the discussion going...thanks!
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Postby AnimalFarm » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:32 am

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:
AnimalFarm wrote:You can look at it from 2 sides:

1. Atheist - They didn't exist so we don't care.

2. Theist - The probably spoke some ancient language, which is the source of all languages. In the tower of Babel, where God gave everyone their language, he hide and destroyed it, so Hebrew, the succssesor of it, will rise. Some believe that the Adamic language (see on Wikipedia) is the language spoken by the Angels and God. Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars believe that this Adamic languages is probably a semitic language, such as Hebrew or Arabic.

Did I answe your question?

Yes, but I'd love to keep the discussion going...thanks!


No problem.
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Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:34 am

Yootwopia wrote:English, like in the Bible.

How do you figure that? The bible comes in many languages, Greek, Hebrew, English, Chinese etc.
Although, I don't know how the statement that states that the word woman comes from man in Greek whilst at the Greek language of the time, Woman was Geny and man was Andras
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Postby Ashmoria » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:34 am

adam and eve were neither christian nor jewish. they hung out with god. they didnt worship him.

the language that they spoke is as lost to the mists of time as the garden of eden itself.
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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:37 am

What language did Adam and Eve speak?

Who knows - and aside from yourself, obviously - who cares?

What is it relevant to?
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Postby Sindei » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:39 am

They spoke Klingon. Everybody knows that.
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Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:41 am

Ashmoria wrote:adam and eve were neither christian nor jewish

Not the point
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Postby Tekania » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:43 am

Sindei wrote:They spoke Klingon. Everybody knows that.


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Postby Divair » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:02 am

Nothing, considering they didn't exist.
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Postby The Archregimancy » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:04 am

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:The reason I say Jewish and Christian is because I'm beggining to understand that Islam also has an Adam and Eve. Anyway, this is something that has been bothering me for a while now. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, which language did they speak? After the tower of Babel, did the language that broke off remain the same for some people whilst others got a new language or did everyone get new languages? I looked it up on the net and it said it was Hebrew but I asked my grandfather who told me that according to the scriptures it is Arabic but no one knows, and I have only ever asked a hand full of Orthodox Christians (my religion) who told me that noone has any way of knowing. Anyway, please contribute! Also, if you do NOT belive the bible, please do not spam this thread. Feel free to post your belifes once. This is not a Christian and Jew vs Non-Christian and Non-Jew thread so please do not turn it into one! Thanks and happy discussing!


The Orthodox Church doesn't hold that Genesis is a literally true account of human history, therefore the point is moot.

Nor is this a new point of view on the part of the Orthodox Church. In the first half of the third century, for example, Origen clearly stated that Genesis was to be understood figuratively and allegorically, not literally:

"No one, I think, can doubt that the statement that God walked in the afternoon in paradise, and that Adam lay hid under a tree is related figuratively in Scripture, that some mystical meaning may be indicated by it ... those who are not altogether blind can collect countless instances of a similar kind recorded as having occurred, but which did not literally take place." (Origen De Prinicipiis, 4.1.16).

You would have better luck discussing the origins of human language if you turned this into a thread on the hypothesis of linguistic monogenesis.
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Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:09 am

The Archregimancy wrote:**snip**
The Orthodox Church doesn't hold that Genesis is a literally true account of human history
**snip**

Please don't think I'm being sarcastic as I'm being serious. Does that mean we can belive Darwanism? Also, is there a source for that?
Kalaspia-Shimarata's flag represents the Union between K&S. The dark blue represents the sea and the light blue represents the sky. In Kalashi language considers light blue and dark blue to be different colours. England colonised, and unified K&S, between 1774 and 1953, and English, light blue and dark blue are considered to be the same colour. Therefore, the contrast between dark blue and light blue represents the union, but the differences between K&S where as blue being two but simultaneously one colour represents K&S being two, but simultaniously one entity. The opposite to the symmetry represents the unity and indipendance of K&S, whilst also representing the Kalashi culture of opposite symmetry.KS is 75% Christian, hence the cross.
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Postby Cosmopoles » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:12 am

Like most people in the bible, they're fictional characters. They can speak whatever language you want them to.
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Postby Free Soviets » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:15 am

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:The reason I say Jewish and Christian is because I'm beggining to understand that Islam also has an Adam and Eve. Anyway, this is something that has been bothering me for a while now. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, which language did they speak? After the tower of Babel, did the language that broke off remain the same for some people whilst others got a new language or did everyone get new languages? I looked it up on the net and it said it was Hebrew but I asked my grandfather who told me that according to the scriptures it is Arabic but no one knows, and I have only ever asked a hand full of Orthodox Christians (my religion) who told me that noone has any way of knowing. Anyway, please contribute! Also, if you do NOT belive the bible, please do not spam this thread. Feel free to post your belifes once. This is not a Christian and Jew vs Non-Christian and Non-Jew thread so please do not turn it into one! Thanks and happy discussing!

languages evolve. if there had been an adam and eve - and there wasn't - they would have spoken 'proto-world', the common ancestor of all languages.
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Postby Tekania » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:15 am

Kalaspia-Shimarata wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:**snip**
The Orthodox Church doesn't hold that Genesis is a literally true account of human history
**snip**

Please don't think I'm being sarcastic as I'm being serious. Does that mean we can belive Darwanism? Also, is there a source for that?


I'd imagine it would be more Theistic Evolution or Evolutionary Creationism.
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Postby Leepaidamba » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:22 am

1: it's just a story.
2: it doesn't matter.
3: it might have been any language as the writers of the story never specified any language.
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Postby Radical Edward » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:24 am

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Yootwopia wrote:English, like in the Bible.

No way, they spoke American, just like Jesus did.

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