Why do Noah cursed his son for his fault?

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Why do Noah cursed his own son for his fault to became drunk and lay uncovered?

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Including me, lot of people who read this part of the bible get stuck with the same question of doubt. I know it very well because many people already shared their dissatisfaction in the act of Noah. It was also a fact that still many people in the generations of Ham is suffering from this curse even in this 21st century.

We all consider Noah as a man who criticize others for his own faults. I was also one with such a consideration until I decided to find the fact and truth behind the scenes. For that I studied the Scripture to find out the fact about such an act from Noah and the to find the root reason for our misunderstanding about the act of Noah. It opened me a serious of facts behind the scenes which will help anyone completely to remove their misunderstanding about the act of Noah.

One of the root cause for our misunderstanding about the act of Noah is our attitude in drinking wine. Most of us consider drinking wine as similar to alcoholic consumption and consider it as a sin. There is much difference in drinking wine and alcohol. Bible prohibits to become drunk by the over consumption of wine and that is in the New Testament. Noah lived a long time before the time of law and commandments and to became drunk is not a sinful act for him. I want all of you to remove this misunderstanding before reading further.

Now we can take a careful look on this bible part with an intention to understand the things happened on that day, so that we can realize that what Noah done is right or wrong. It is written in Genesis 9:20 which says, "Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness."

If you concentrate in reading the above verses by giving priority to the words marked bold, you can see that, Noah proceeded to plant a vineyard for him and from its extract he made his own wine. He drank some of His own vineyard's wine and he became drunk. The next sentence says he lay uncovered inside his tent. The point here is Noah lay uncovered not in the tent of Ham or some where in the field. He laid in his own tent and he got the right or freedom to lay in his tent. And it is very difficult to think of a situation in which Noah and all his sons and their wives and children all stayed in a single tent. At least for sure there will be a separation inside their tent. Even if Noah is lying in Ham's tent, Ham can't oppose him for Noah is his father. But here As Noah is laying in his own tent and there is nothing Ham to do with that.

Ham for some reason came to the tent of Noah and when he saw his father uncovered, there are two good things which he can do. One is to leave the tend without caring for what he had seen and to keep it hidden in his heart. Otherwise he can cover his father himself with a garment. Instead of doing this what he did was he went outside and shared that matter to his brothers. The more worse thing is that he shared that matter to his brothers as a funny thing. That is why it is written there that, "Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness."

If you are able to view this incident in the point of view I described, of course you can realize the mistake that happened from Ham's part. But still we need to uncover the curse of Noah. We already knew that what Ham did is wrong. But still to curse his own son is up to Noah. We all feel it difficult to accept the act of cursing Ham by his father Noah. On studying I realized that it is because we consider Noah's curse as a punishment for the act of Ham and it is not so.

According to me, rather than an act of punishment, it was an outcome of Noah's uncontrollable sadness. If we consider the situations around, we can know that it was after the time of flood and there are no other people left on the face of earth other than Noah and his family. Noah is the eldest in his family and blessed with three sons Sham, Ham and Japheth

As he loved his family, he expected their love and care in return too. But, what Ham given in return for all the love and care of his father? Noah was never expecting such an act from his son whom he loved. But when Noah received such an act from his son Ham, it may be intolerable for him and and he may also become extremely sad. I do believe that from this intolerable sadness came the words of curse against Ham.

Almost all of us know that this curse of Noah came for real to Ham and to the generations of Ham. Some of you may think why this curse is so effective. I think it is because of the faith of Noah in God. What Noah done to God was not a simple thing as we imagine. He worked for God alone for long 400 years to build an ark according to God's commandment. Noah is a man who trust in God for a rain which he never knew before. I do respect Noah for this act. Even in this period of New Testament, we doubt God for many of his promises to us. But Noah keep on working for God for all those years believing that God will bring rain one day as he promised. Situations around him was not supporting and people around him considered him as a fool. There were many oppositions and building a ark is never an easy job even in this 21st century. Finally when God fulfilled his promise by bringing rain, there was for sure a tremendous increase in the faith of Noah.

In the New Testament, Jesus taught us, if you said anything without doubting in your heart, it will happen for sure.When Noah with great faith in God said such a curse from his heart without doubting about its fulfillment, the curse came for real to Ham's life and his generations. Now their only hope is that Christ died for them to remove this curse also from their generations.

May God bless you with this answer to understand the innocence of Noah and to remove every misunderstanding from that part of the Bible.

Demons in my house. What to do?

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Hi Alfred, I got your id from the article about "demons in my house". My name is ***** and I'm living with my mother in Dubai. We recently got a second hand double bed and after that my mother has been experiencing weird things. She can't turn to the other side while sleeping. She feels like someone is pushing her. Sometimes she can't move her arms and legs. She's been getting nightmares many times. When she wakes up she finds tiny scratch marks on her back and her neck even she doesn't wear any jewelery & the bed clean. Can you please advice me on what I must do?

Is all this caused by demons or something? What can I do to get rid of this? Please reply as soon as possible. Thank you.

Answer:

I studied about your problem and will surely help you to get a deliverance for your mother from this problem. There are also few similar cases like yours which I handled, which gave me more confident to handle yours.

First of all I will share to you certain facts which I learned and understood clearly from all my experience. It is that a demon or Satan can not just simply come all the sudden in the life of a person as common people imagine, unless there are any certain doors opened for him to come in and to work. I will make it a little more clear. Demons are also real as angels are real. But they are also just spirits. They can't do something on any flesh, which means to anyone's body as easy as we do. But they can cause this kind of problems in two ways. One is to make such a feeling in which we feel similar to reality. Other is to make it happen for real.

In the case of making such a feeling is possible by the ability of demon to act in the spiritual realm related to our soul, which will make a living flesh feel like an illusion that happened for real for a while. Feeling like, can't able to turn to the other side while sleeping., feels like someone is pushing, can't move her arms and legs, been getting nightmares many times, wakes up she finds tiny scratch marks on her back and her neck etc may be due to this reason. Secondly if this is happening for real, it most probably she alone is doing all those things and suffering herself. This may be happening though demonic possession in which a demon troubles her to do all this things leaving her in a state similar to a comma. When she awake from that state, she will be totally unaware of what happened and get amazed by the marks and pains in her on body.

What ever the case may be, you should realize that it is just an after effect of something. That is the root reason for the problem and by finding the solution for this cause will solve the problems and troubles. Most usually this kind of things can happen for two reasons. First and important reason is that there should be some bad action in her life to cause this kind of things (it may be some kind of sin which is an act of cruelty, sorcery, demonic submission and so on). This can cause problems via two ways. One is from inside which is a direct aftereffect of any of the mentioned acts and the other is from outside which is indirect. In indirect case, an act as mentioned above will open a door and the door later invited the opportunity of such a problem in life.

No demons can come to anyone's life through a bed it is simply because the bed is a physical thing and demon is spiritual and need some living stuff to reside in it. But still there is a possibility in which the bed may related to some sorcery related objects or something by which some demons got direct access to the related things. I found there is no benefit for you to understand that reason and I mentioned almost everything you need to know.

Now my advice to you is never go anywhere searching for the reasons behind it, for it will not solve the situations, but only make it more worse. Next is do not depend any type of sorcery person for a solution for this problem for this will also make the problem more worse with wastage of money and time. They will guarantee you deliverance and finally your current situation will become very worse than now. Never compare and get afraid this with story characters such as a ghost or Dracula for all those are just a myth and that can never be the reason behind.

You can get rid of this problem for sure and the best way for that is to pray. May be you don't know what to pray, the following links will help you.

1. Accept Jesus. for a forgiveness to any past sins are needed. http://alfredisac.blogspot.com/2009/12/anti-dot-for-sin.html

2. Learn to pray to know what to pray. http://alfredisac.blogspot.com/2009/12/prayer.html

If the problem still remains seek the help of a man of prayer who lives near you or whom you know and let him come to your home and pray for your mother. You can contact me for any further help. May God deliver you from you and your mother from current situations and problems. God bless you.

Can demonic spirit gave utterance to speak in tongues?

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I recently received the anointing of the Holy Spirit in a meeting and on that day I received some utterance in my mouth to speak in tongues. But I was not baptized yet. So when I shared it with an evangelist which I know and when I told him that I was not baptized. Then he told me about the tongues which occur by the utterance of the demonic spirit. From that day onwards I started to doubt the tongues which I got. Is it true that, demonic spirit can give us utterance to speak in tongues? Can you help me to realize the fact behind this and to discern the tongues which is coming in my mouth?

Answer:

This is a quite meaningful question and it is not only you, but many persons already shared this question to know and to confirm that the tongues they are speaking is of Holy Spirit. I also found that it is very important to help people to get out from this type of confusions from the initial stage.

Gift of tongues is a special gift from Holy Spirit which we can see only in the New Testament. In this New Testament, no were in the gospels, acts or epistles we can't see any people speaking in tongues by the utterance of demonic spirit and no were anyone is mentioning about such a kind of tongues. But still some of you may have seen or heard people speaking certain things in native language or so by the utterance of demonic spirit.

Yes, there are such incidents where there is utterance given by demonic spirit and this is biblical too. These utterance can be of two types. One and most important one is demons speak with much clarity and in the native language by giving utterance to the possessed person. We can see that in bible people with demonic possession shouted, "you are Jesus Christ, son of the most high" (Matthew 8:29, Mark 5:7, Mark 3:7-12 and so on) many times throughout the bible, Demons revealing their name and necessary things on asking them Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him (Luke 8:30), speaking things like "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you? "(Acts 19:15) and so on. This is something that happen as a result of the utterance given by the demon to the possessed person. But people know very well that this is not the tongues and it is easy to discern it.

The second one is that what people misunderstand as demonic tongues usually, for it is slightly similar to tongues. Actually these are groaning made by the demonic spirit. It is very easy to recognize this because all such groaning are not clear. It usually happens when demons feel it difficult to stay in the possessed person's body due to the presence of God. We can see many similar things happened in the New Testament when Jesus Christ came to cast demons out. At that time, due to the power of God and anointing in Jesus, there was a special presence of God spreading around him. When demonic possessed persons are brought to Jesus Christ, they may feel it intolerable to stay in that presence and they started groaning and to make all such noises. These noises are not tongues of demons as people misunderstand. This type of tongues only last for a few moments and will not come into mouth always.

Then the most important point is, even if the demon can gave good and clear utterance like speaking in tongues or by these groaning noises and all, there is nothing to worry about. When we speak in the tongues of Holy Spirit, we speak mysteries and we are speaking to God which will give us spiritual edification. This doesn't ever means that if there is a demonic tongues and when we speak in such tongues, we are speaking to Satan, which will result in demonic edification. It is even foolish to think like that and there are no biblical explanation of such a demonic giving tongue.

Some people again misinterpret that this type of tongues is visible usually in people who used to start speaking in tongues before the water baptism. According to their doctrine, there is no way to receive tongues of Holy Spirit before baptism. But I do not agree with this kind of teaching because it is possible to receive tongues and even to prophecy without taking the water baptism. In the book of Acts 10:44-47 we can clearly see that people receiving the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues too before they get baptized. "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. 46For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, "Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have." So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days." So there is no point in such a interpretation which says it not possible to speak in tongues before water baptism.

I am so sad to think about the occurrence of such misunderstanding in the church and really worried about the people who used to spread such kind of false doctrines to the members of church, which will deviate from their faith. Usually there are many people around us with not much knowledge in the word of God and they like to make others believe that they knew something seriously. To make such a honor in front of them, they invent many false doctrines like this and share it without confirming it with the word of God and proper knowledge about the point. The main consequences of such doctrines are it will damage the faith of many people and deviate the from the basis of word of God.

In your case, you told me that you shared you are a new believer to that evangelist. If he is a good and God guided man, he should of course only promote and encourage you to speak in tongues more and more by telling you about its advantage. People receiving Holy Spirit is like a small baby without much maturity and knowledge about the word of God and Jesus. Any false doctrines can make them doubt many spiritual things around them and even it can make them doubt the pearls given by God. If you can please stay away from all such kind of people.

Trust in God and what He has given you. Speak it out and keep on growing. There is nothing you need to be worried. God is with you and He will take care of you. May God bless you greatly with this answer and to grow in Him more and more and to remove all misunderstandings.

Why people are classified as full-time and part-time ministers?

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Why do people in a church are classified as full-time and part-time ministers? What is the difference between them? Which one among this is greater?

Answer:

Your question is a simple and interesting question. Its answer also is simple, if it is answered directly to the point. But on answering this question, I need to mention certain important points which are some mistakes from this. I do believe that it may help at least some of you to realize such misinterpretation and to remove such misunderstanding.

First of all let me come to the direct answer. Churches in this days classified the category of people in a basis of time. Those who are dedicated to God and working for God without any other business or job are called full-time ministers of God. All the rest of people in a church without such a commitment are called part-time workers of God. The difference between them is classified on the basis of their working time for God.

I don't know how this type of a classification developed in churches. There are many factors that developed this classification. Some of them are the concept to get a high reward for full-time workers, God's special love towards full-time workers, God's quickness and care in answering the full-time ministers prayers and so on. Whatever it may be I'm totally against this classification for that this type of a classification is not biblical and was not created by God. This classification has got a lot of disadvantages, which is also a factor that affects the growth of the church. I'm dedicating my answers to all people who are called and separated as a part-time ministers of God. You should understand the biblical facts very clearly and should break the barriers around you by clear understanding about the word of God.

We can go to a part of the bible which will help us to reveal many truths based on this time based classification. In Matthew 20:, we can see Jesus telling a story to his disciples. It says, "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?' Because no one has hired us,' they answered. He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.' When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

In the above parable said by Jesus we can see very clearly that God is the landowner and the workers are his ministers. Here the landowner agreed to pay a denarius for his workers, which means God agreed a reward for his ministers. The important thing to notice here is about the time. We can see, the land owner went early in the morning, third hour, sixth hour, ninth hour, eleventh hour to hire men to work for his vineyard, until evening. As the workers are called at different times, we can see that the difference between them is based on the duration of time they worked. This workers can be compared with the classification of full-time and part-time ministers of God. Those who started working from the early morning worked for a long time compared to others. We can see that such workers are also proud of what they have done and they also are expecting something great from God, for they are working for a long time. But when God called his workers to pay their wages, he is not even thinking about such a classification. He is giving the same reward for all the part-time workers and also it is clear that God's attitude and care towards both of them are same.

Hope you understand that there is no classification made by God, to the church on the basis of time. You should also realize that there is no special favor in the eyes of God for full-time workers. All part time workers and full time workers are equally important in the eyes of God. Then why do human beings have this classification. There is only one God placed classification in the church and it is written in the bible very clearly. It is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:28 which says, "And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues." This is a good classification and we all know that this classification will help in the growth of church. And if God or the apostles found it important and beneficial to make a time based classification, surely they will also classify the people in the first time church as full time and part time ministers.

I think I should also mention some of the important disadvantages of such a time based classification. Almost in all churches around the world, majority of its members are people with some job or some kind of business. If a church separate this group of people as a group who are not able to work for God the whole day, it is a kind of discouragement. By this discouragement, the church will lose a great contribution from the majority. A good church should not keep this type of classification within them and they should consider each of its members as equally important in the vineyard of God, which is the mission field. The church should encourage every members to work for God, as much as they can. They should teach them to be connected with the heaven always and to be an available tool for God whenever He needs you, which is an important thing.

All people who are separated as part-time workers of God, please come to the understanding that you are equally important to Jesus. Some of you may think that God will hear only those dedicated full time ministers prayers and He can work only through them. It is a just a misunderstanding and answering of prayer is just a matter of faith. You must clearly understand, you are precious for Jesus. God is love and he loves everyone equally. He paid his life as a price for me, you and all. He do not have any special considerations for certain people.

All people who called themselves as full-time ministers of God, this message is not to discourage you. But in this end-times, God need more workers for His field and this type of classifications are really a stumbling block for the growth of kingdom of God. Never continue with the attitude of vineyard workers, who worked from early morning. Remove this type of classification from your middle and encourage them equally. Never let God say to you, "Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"

May God bless all of you with this answer and may many people starting working to God as much as they can, by breaking the human classified barriers around them, for the growth of kingdom of God.

'I am sad' Why?

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I'm sad and I really mean it on saying it. I know about your blog and all. Actually I don't know clearly about the reason for I'm sad and so I can't share you the reason for my sadness. But can you please pray for me to God and I do believe God will answer my problem to you. Advance thanks.

Answer:

It is for the first time someone is asking me such a kind of question. Your question made me think a lot and I took a great time to understand it. All the other questions people shared was like asking a solution after mentioning their problem with it's reason. Anyway at last God given me an exact or the best answer for your question and I'm happy to give you that answer.

By finding answer to your question only, I came to know about the important reasons behind sadness. It was amazing for me to determine such a meaning from the very simple phrase, 'I am sad'. First of all, if you are sad, you should know that there is an important and specific reason behind it which I can't avoid so simply because it mean many things spiritually to me. Anyway friend, listen to my words carefully and take my answer seriously.

There are only mainly two important reasons behind sadness as it is mentioned in the bible. Of course the reason behind your sadness will also be one among them. It is on the basis of 2 Corinthians 7:10 which says, "For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death."

So the reason for your grief may be caused by the will of God which will lead you to salvation. If so you do not need to worry about for later it will bring joy and peace to you. I'm also happy about that. And if the reason for your sadness is caused by worldly sadness, which will bring death, you should take care. Don't be afraid. It is not about physical death, but spiritual death which is the state of life without Jesus Christ.

If you are sad for this second reason, you should take essential precautions as fast as possible before it result in a spiritual death. Check your faith and check yourself that when and where you deviated from Jesus and How? From my experience and knowledge it may be caused by any wrong decisions made by you with consciousness. If you realize what I told you is true, Repent and restore your relationship with Jesus as fast as you can. Take care always to give no room for the enemy in your heart.

If you need any more help, contact me and I will do my best to help you. May God bless you and deliver you quickly from this situation of sadness.

Does Adam and Eve had a Belly button?

Does Adam and Eve had a Belly button?

Answer:

This is an interesting question and I'm very glad to present my answer. But on presenting my answer, I need to say something for that it will not result in any quarrel or disagreement later for even Bible says that to stay away from these types of talks which will result only in quarrel due to the disagreement between two opinions caused by lack of proper evidence. Let me also mention that I don't think an answer for this question will help you or anyone to gain some spiritual edification.

There are two categories of people, in which one believe that  Adam and Eve do had a belly button and there are also who believe that they don't had one. Whatever the answer may be, no one will be able to go to the past and check their belly to make an assured report. The only thing which we can do regarding that in this 21st century is just to make possible assumptions by the best of our awareness in science.

I'm answering this question just to present my assumption from a variety of factors I studied. Once I thought it was just a matter of common sense to say that Adam and Eve don't had a belly button. But on presenting the matter between some friends, strong oppositions came and it made me rethink and study my answer to check and confirm that whether my answer is more possible to be true. But still I don't compel anyone to believe in my opinion due to the lack of visible evidence.

First of all, we can think about the reason and statement of both side of people. It is like one group of people believe that God created Adam and Eve and as they don't came out of a womb they lack a belly button. The second group believe that God they had a belly button for God created human being complete on creation and without a belly button human body seems to be imperfect. I do believe and support the side which says that Adam and Eve don't had a belly button.

The most important reason behind it is as everyone knows that the contradiction of umbilical chord result in the formation of belly button. Adam was created by God and Eve was created from the rib of Adam. As Adam and Eve were created not from a womb, more clearly without being inside a womb. Naturally there was no possibility for an umbilical chord and thus for a belly button.

Now we should answer the questions from people who believe that Adam and Eve had a belly button. There main statements and questions are regarding the imperfection of the body without a belly button. They are asking 'Why can't God create Adam and Eve with a small belly button?' First I got confused with their statements and later on thinking and studying about the matter, I found certain truths from science that do not support their statements.

Their main statement about the imperfection of human body with out a belly button was like a kind of illusion matter. If we think for a while about our body without a belly button, of course it will seem to be like an imperfection. I studied about the reason behind this imperfection. Then I realized that it is a matter of illusion, more than the matter of imperfection. If you think about the reason behind the imperfection, you will come to know that it is an odd case. More clearly as we all had a belly button, we believe that perfection is to had a belly button. But if we all don't had a belly button, we will never feel it as a matter of imperfection.

Secondly, on thinking about the chance for God to create a small belly button in Adam and Eve. I reject that for the reason I don't think God will create a belly button in Adam and Eve without any function or purpose. Even in this 21st century medical science reject the possibility of a child growth without having an umbilical chord. They again conform that umbilical chord do not have any function or purpose to do after the child birth and medical science provides that as the reason to cut it off after child birth. This umbilical chord contracts together and form the belly button which also do not have any function or purpose.

Many people consider belly button as some kind of organ in the human body to say that there was no possibility for God to create Adam and Eve without a belly button. Such people need to understand the fact that belly button is just a mark resulted by the contradiction of umbilical chord, just like a wound leave a mark(a scar) on our body when it get healed. I don't think God will make an unwanted scar in Adam's and Eve's body without a cause.

I would like to share you one more thing which made me confirm that Adam and Eve do not have a belly button. It was to study and to realize that the creatures that born from a womb or an egg without an umbilical chord lack a belly button. Birds, Fishes etc. are examples for organisms without a belly button for they were not grown and born with the help of a umbilical chord. These are also God's creation and God did not created a belly button in them for there is no function for a belly button in them. If God do not created a belly button in them to make some perfection, most probably he doesn't made one for Adam and Eve too.

And finally, as a spiritual meaning, belly button represents a generation. It shows the connection of a human being to his mother and it clearly represents the connection with a generation ahead. If you believe that Adam and Eve had a belly button, it also represent that there is a generation, more clearly a human generation ahead. It will not support the creation of human being from God. According to me, those who believe in creation should believe that God created the first man without a belly button, but with perfect plans to make generations from them with a belly button.

Hope you understand my opinion and May God bless you with this answer.