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More on Adam’s identification of the animals.

Genesis 2:19 reads “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof. ” (KJV)

Since God brought the animals to Adam, does not that indicate that God was stil sovereign over them? That he had not yet delegated authority over the animals to humans? If Adam had been in authority over them, why wouldn’t Adam have commanded that they come to him? In fact, we don’t actually see humans literally exercising authority over animals until Genesis 4:2. I am in agreement with pinklight that no authority existed of man over beast until after the creation of woman and maybe even only after expulsion from the graden.