What Did Adam and Eve Look Like?

What did the first man and the first woman that God created look like? Does this question even matter? I have seen different renderings of Adam and Eve in the paradise that the loving Father placed them in.

In every instance I can remember, Adam is portrayed as clean-shaven. This seems to be a clue about how we tend to approach the Bible. We tend to come to our study of God's word with our presuppositions in place. We may subconsciously think "In general men today shave and so he must have been clean-shaven because he must have looked like us."

We certainly do not know what "color" either or both of them were - though we know that all "colors" came from them!

What would their hair length have been like???

1Co 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 1Co 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

These are interesting new testament verses. Are we under the new testament today? Did the Holy Spirit have Paul write these verses just for the people of Corinth in the first century or are they for us today as well? Is it possible that God really cares about our hair length?

On the day they were created perfectly by God, when He made them just the way He wanted them...Adam may have been bearded and short haired... and Eve may have had long hair. He that made them in the beginning made them male and female. (see Gen. 1:27) Though they were both made in His image they were created distinctly different from one another.

What does this matter of 'nature itself ' teaching the Corinthians something about hair mean? It has been suggested that this ties in to the God-given difference in the strength of men's and women's hair follicles. You have probably noticed that many men have a tendency to baldness! Long hair is a gift that has been given to women. It is a God-given covering...it is even a glory to her!

One of the ways we help the world may be in accepting, embracing, and even celebrating the gender God made us and looking to God's word for our guidelines rather than being "conformed to this world." Perhaps manly men and feminine women give God more glory.

In reference to the sufferings of Christ we read this (is He speaking of His beard?):
Isa 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.