Which language did JEWISH and CHRISTIAN Adam and Eve speak?

[Provosa]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time. The little details tend to just rape the meaning and essene of the Christian doctrine and other faiths as well.

[Krakosov]

i would tink they spoke Cockney

[The Aryan Nations]

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!

Enochian. John Dee and Anton both agree with me.

[Theatrical Theists]

They spoke Elysian, of course!

[Condunum]

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

Anyone that believes in Darwinism is ignorant.

That said, they obviously spoke Simmish.

[Free Soviets]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time. The little details tend to just rape the meaning and essene of the Christian doctrine and other faiths as well.

your copy of genesis is clearly much more detailed than mine

[The Rich Port]

Seeing as how God is, in fact, omnipotent in the Christian and Hebrew religions, I like to think that Adam and Eve were so dumb that they couldn't speak, so God communicated with them through telepathy and just beamed what he wanted them to do into their brains.

The Devil, with similar powers of non-verbal persuasion, then tempted their dumb asses with counter-telepathy.

Then again, Adam and Eve would have to have been monkey-ish, so I wouldn't blame them as much if they weren't born with fully functional human brains.

[Farnhamia]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time. The little details tend to just rape the meaning and essene of the Christian doctrine and other faiths as well.

your copy of genesis is clearly much more detailed than mine

The "tree of knowledge" is actually the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." When they ate from it, Adam and Eve did not become filled with knowledge of everything, they became ashamed because the saw they were naked.

And it's amusing that Provosa said "the meaning and essene" of Christian doctrine.

[Risottia]

When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, which language did they speak?

Quenya.

[Buenia]

It's not really known, however there have been some in the past who thought maybe they spoke Hebrew, given how the Jews were God's chosen people.

[The Rich Port]

It's not really known, however there have been some in the past who thought maybe they spoke Hebrew, given how the Jews were God's chosen people.

To think, the people who made up God think God speaks their language.

[Kalaspia-Shimarata]

It's not really known, however there have been some in the past who thought maybe they spoke Hebrew, given how the Jews were God's chosen people.

The hebrews were gods chosen people because they belived in him. Say for example now, the greeks spoke greek and the romans spoke latin and Adam and Eve spoke latin, but the Greeks worshiped God, the greeks would have been God's chosen people because they worshiped him...despite the fact the romans spoke his language

[Farnhamia]

It's not really known, however there have been some in the past who thought maybe they spoke Hebrew, given how the Jews were God's chosen people.

The hebrews were gods chosen people because they belived in him. Say for example now, the greeks spoke greek and the romans spoke latin and Adam and Eve spoke latin, but the Greeks worshiped God, the greeks would have been God's chosen people because they worshiped him...despite the fact the romans spoke his language

The Hebrews are Yahweh's chosen people because he tapped Abram of Ur on the shoulder and said, "If you follow me, I shall make of you a great people." Abram liked the idea, so he changed his name to Abraham, gathered his people and left Mesopotamia for greener pastures. Abraham probably spoke some sort of barbaric Akkadian dialect. What Adam and Eve spoke is not something we can figure out, as much because they didn't exist as because at the beginning of the world, who knows? They may have spoken the language that the angels spoke.

[The Aryan Nations]

Seeing as how God is, in fact, omnipotent in the Christian and Hebrew religions, I like to think that Adam and Eve were so dumb that they couldn't speak, so God communicated with them through telepathy and just beamed what he wanted them to do into their brains.

The Devil, with similar powers of non-verbal persuasion, then tempted their dumb asses with counter-telepathy.

Then again, Adam and Eve would have to have been monkey-ish, so I wouldn't blame them as much if they weren't born with fully functional human brains.

Satan sees naked, willing, thought slave in a garden. teaches critical thinking.

[The Aryan Nations]

It's not really known, however there have been some in the past who thought maybe they spoke Hebrew, given how the Jews were God's chosen people.

Enochian. apparently the language of Angels. i see no reason that a supposed diety would have his slaves speak a different tongue.

[The Anglo-Saxon Empire]

As much as you may try to ignore it, it is true. They spoke Muslimish.

Their language was more basic than Arabic, instead of having any actual words all they did was make the noise people make when hacking up phlegm.

[Sarkhaan]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time.

The bold is the important part of the story? Really?

And no, a protolanguage without word symbolism (one cannot "name" something without having the ability to form some level of abstraction) would not make sense in the story, as "good", "evil", and "knowledge" are all abstract concepts that would not be able to be understood by simply "voicing".

[The Rich Port]

Seeing as how God is, in fact, omnipotent in the Christian and Hebrew religions, I like to think that Adam and Eve were so dumb that they couldn't speak, so God communicated with them through telepathy and just beamed what he wanted them to do into their brains.

The Devil, with similar powers of non-verbal persuasion, then tempted their dumb asses with counter-telepathy.

Then again, Adam and Eve would have to have been monkey-ish, so I wouldn't blame them as much if they weren't born with fully functional human brains.

Satan sees naked, willing, thought slave in a garden. teaches critical thinking.

The fruit is from the tree of "Knowledge of Good and Evil", not the tree of "Knowledge" pelau.

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time.

The bold is the important part of the story? Really?

And no, a protolanguage without word symbolism (one cannot "name" something without having the ability to form some level of abstraction) would not make sense in the story, as "good", "evil", and "knowledge" are all abstract concepts that would not be able to be understood by simply "voicing".

Hell, when one thinks about it, the Creation story doesn't make ANY goddamn sense.

Fancy that.

[Farnhamia]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time.

The bold is the important part of the story? Really?

And no, a protolanguage without word symbolism (one cannot "name" something without having the ability to form some level of abstraction) would not make sense in the story, as "good", "evil", and "knowledge" are all abstract concepts that would not be able to be understood by simply "voicing".

Besides, according to the Bible, everyone spoke the same language until some Akkadians decided to built that silly tower in the Land of the Two Rivers. Yahweh claims to have thrown down the tower and muddled up everyone's language, but the contractors were using substandard mud bricks and there were so many illegal immigrants running around speaking all kinds of Semitic languages instead of good Sumerian, it was enough to make your head hurt.

[Sarkhaan]

The Christian genesis can be interpreted as if the speech of Adam and Eve were proto-linguistic or simply "voicing". By that I mean there was no difference between word and thing. After eating from the tree of knowledge, demand exceeded need and they developed phonemic speech. I will not speculate the exact language -- the importance of the myth is that language shifts from proto-language to phonemic language.

Phonemic language allows for silly wordplay and rhyme and such that pre-Tree wisdom did not avail. Yet at the same time, it allows the expression of more concepts than before, that were originally unecessary to the vocabulary. Man decided that God's commands were not as plentifully adequate as He thought, and sought to create their own world and their own tongues over time. The little details tend to just rape the meaning and essene of the Christian doctrine and other faiths as well.

your copy of genesis is clearly much more detailed than mine

I'm just astounded that the important part of the Creation myth and the story of the fall is the shift from proto-language to language and not the relationship between man, woman, and Creator/Deity. Seems quite forward-thinking for a religious text.

[Provosa]

That's word-picking. There are many 'importances' to the creation myth but I was speaking about the topic here.

And as far as proto-language being unable to express good and evil, it's paradox. Welcome to religion.

EDIT: and it began with a snake, yeah? do you think the snake/Satan was speaking in the colloquial "yo homies" or in a more direct, acousmatic and synaptic way? Who knows, but why assume.

[Cruciland]

Well, not English. That's just a translation of Greek and Hebrew Bibles. The Greek language wasn't invented in the beginning of the human race, but maybe the Hebrew language... Ancient Hebrew? Maybe. Not Sumerian- they were before that... Shoot! Hebrew? Sumerian? Primitive monkey speak?! No, most likely Ancient Hebrew! No, wait... I GOT IT! IT'S GOTTA BE-

[Chinese Regions]

What ever language you read it in, could be Hebrew, Greek, English, Arabic or any other language.
For mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosonal Adam, who happened to live thousands or hundreds of years apart; some African language perhaps?

[Sarkhaan]

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!

There is no "Jewish", "Christian", "Muslim", or any other "Adam and Eve". There is just the story of Adam and Eve. This might share some traits with other common myths, but just because "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on a Shakespearian play, I can't refer to it as "The Taming Of The Shrew". Anyway.

No one knows. No one could know. IF they existed (which, given the fact that there are two different accounts of their creation, is pretty unlikely), the only people around were God, Satan, Adam, and Eve. They're all dead by now.

They would not have spoken Arabic, as proto-Arabic arose around 8BC.

More importantly, does it matter? Unless you are reading it as historical fact, it shouldn't. Even if you are reading it as historical fact, it doesn't really matter.

[Chinese Regions]

Seeing as how God is, in fact, omnipotent in the Christian and Hebrew religions, I like to think that Adam and Eve were so dumb that they couldn't speak, so God communicated with them through telepathy and just beamed what he wanted them to do into their brains.

Seems likely