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Thanks Craig – yes all went well with the wedding.

To “name” someone or something in the cultural context where authority is somehow attached to the naming act is to give a proper, individual name. Adam did do this when he named Eve “chue” in Genesis 3. (Side note – Cheryl and others will undoubtedly point out that this was after the fall and therefore Adam’s first act of sinful authoritarian “rule”). This, of course, is what we do when we name our children or our pets or our cars. (Am I the only one?)

That is not the activity that Adam carried out in Geneis 2. In that chapter, Adam catagorized the animals by type. He didn’t call an individual tiger “Bob”, he called all of that species “Tiger”. In other words, he gave a “name” (or really, description) to each type, not each individual.

That is a different kind of naming than the kind appealed to by naming=authority advocates. Therefore, the cultural naming=authority argument is irrelevant to Genesis 2.