Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

ONe question. You say that God named ‘the woman’ before Adam in Gen 2:22. Aren’t you confusing narrative into a quote? Please explain why verse 22 should be understood as God’s words and not a narrative section of scripture?

Let’s look at the verse in question:

Genesis 2:22 (NASB95)
22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

While God isn’t quoted here, this is God’s narrative. He inspired it and only He knows what happened so that a narrative regarding the events has to come from Him alone. God could have said that he created a female since in the beginning He said that he created male and female. But the text specifically identifies her as “woman”. He didn’t just fashion her into a female, but into a “woman” which is her identity. The fact that God has divinely placed this verse into the text in the narrative before Adam’s identification of the woman, shows that it is His identification that existed first and Adam merely discovered what God had already ordained as a fact.

So I would like to pass the challenge on back to you. Since Adam was out cold when God created the woman, and since no other human was around when the woman was created, where did the narrative come from? From man or from God?

Back to you with this one. Also have you been thinking about all the questions that I have asked you that you haven’t answered yet? Are you still too busy to answer or are you working on it? Thanks!