亞當有肚臍嗎？

第一次聽到這個問題是在地帶大會「考倒潘會長」的活動裡面：
(註：每次地帶大會都有一小段時間，約莫20分鐘，潘會長讓我們盡情的發問對福音的任何問題。潘會長就是目前亞洲區域會長團的潘望博會長(President Perkins))

那時候我剛去台北傳教沒多久，有位傳教士問了潘會長一個問題：

「亞當有肚臍嗎？」

我記得當時潘會長回答：「我不知道」


事過境遷，最近我又想起這個問題，當然，這個問題表面上看來是沒什麼意義，跟我們的救恩應該是沒什麼關係。

不過，從另一個觀點看這個問題，卻有些意思。

這次我上網Google了一下，發現這個問題原來爭論已久，據說在西思汀大教堂興建之時，米開朗基羅創作一幕幕聖經創世紀中的場景時，就曾經詢問過這個問題。

(上圖是米開朗基羅「亞當的創造」，裡面的亞當有肚臍)

因為我覺得這看來像是稗官野史，所以請自個兒搜尋，在此不列出相關資料~

這個問題從另一個角度來看，其實是在問：

• 「亞當是由地上的塵土造出來的嗎？」或是

• 「亞當是由他父母所生出來的嗎？」

茲節錄幾段領袖的話，以供參考：(以下引用自Overview of the Plan of Salvation)

「子，耶穌基督，成長過程如同你我一樣，同樣的，神也是如此，基督的父，成長發展至現今的至高之神。人類是由女人所生，救主基督也是由女人所生，父神也是由女人所生。我們在世上的祖先亞當，也是由女人所生，和基督與你我皆相同。」

“The Son, Jesus Christ, grew and developed into manhood the same as you or I, as likewise did God, His Father, grow and develop to the Supreme Being that He now is.  Man was born of woman;  Christ, the Savior, was born of woman, and God, the Father, was born of woman.  Adam, our earthly parent, was also born of woman into this world, the same as Jesus and you and I.”(Joseph F. Smith, Deseret Evening News, Dec 27, 1913, Sec. 3, page 7.)

「當我們的靈接受我們的身體以後(復活到高榮國度的最高一層)，經由我們的忠信，我們將接受冠冕，有權生育靈體與肉體的子女。」
“And when our spirits receive our bodies [immortal resurrection into the highest degree of the celestial kingdom], and through our faithfulness we are worthy to be crowned, we will then receive authority to produce both spirit and body.”( Brigham Young, JD 15:137.)

「人類事實上就是神的後裔，人與神有共同的出身的。祂的後裔並非由低等生物演化而來，而是由最高級的生命形態；換句話說，人是神的孩子，這句話是真實的。不僅在靈體方面，我們是神的孩子，在肉體方面也是。」
“Man has descended from God in fact, he is of the same race as the Gods.  His descent has not been from a lower form of life, but from the Highest Form of Life; in other words, man is, in the most literal sense, a child of God.  This is not only true of the spirit of man, but of his body also.”(B.H. Roberts, “The Creation of Man,” Course of Study for Priests 1910; quoted in Church News 19 Sept. 1963, p.8.)

「就如同字面上的意義，我相信在肉體方面，亞當是神的孩子(摩西書6：22)；他以嬰兒的形態出生於一個沒有罪也沒有血的世界，不受死亡的支配；然後成長到成人的模樣，後來因為自己的行為而變得必死。我相信亞當的身體是由我們不死的高榮父親和不死的高榮母親所生，因此是一種不死的情況，也因此不抵觸耶穌被稱為父肉身中的獨生子的角色(教約93：11)---肉身意味者必死。耶穌的身體也是經由那同一位高榮的父親，但是由一位必死的母親(馬利亞)所生，因此是必死的身體。」
“I believe that Adam’s physical body was the offspring of God, literally (Moses 6:33); that he was begotten as a baby with a physical body not subject to death, in a world without sin or blood; and that he grew to manhood in that condition then became mortal through his own actions.  I believe that Adam’s physical body was begotten by our immortal celestial Father and an immortal celestial Mother, and thus not into a condition of morality, a condition which would have precluded Jesus from being the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh (D&C 93:11)—flesh meaning mortality.  Jesus’ physical body was also begotten of the same celestial Father but through a mortal woman [Mary] and hence into mortality.( Robert J. Matthews (former Dean of Religion at BYU), A Bible! A Bible!, pp. 188-189.  )

百翰楊會長提到亞當和夏娃是從另一個星球帶過來的。

Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another planet, and power was given them to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. JD 7:285-286.

另外，亞當由塵土所造，和夏娃由亞當的肋骨所造的這兩個形容，只是象徵而已。

參考 "The Creation of Humankind, and Allegory? - Maxwell Institute ..." 2008. 19 May. 2012 <http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=40&chapid=165>

在經文中，路加福音 3：38 寫到

「以挪士是塞特的兒子；塞特是亞當的兒子；亞當是神的兒子。」

如上面領袖所講的，這節經文確實就是字面上的意思。

一想到我們確實是神的後裔，遺傳了神的某些特質，擁有著神的潛能，就覺得視野開闊了起來。