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“I agree that God knew before Adam that he would call her ‘woman’. What I disagree on is that God ‘called’ her woman before Adam did.”

I’m pretty sure Cheryl didn’t mean that and I certainly wouldn’t agree. I said: “I think the most that could be said is that…the term “woman” existed in the mind of God before her creation.”

By that, I certainly don’t mean God didn’t “call” her woman. None of us were in heaven, so we don’t know if God’s statement was audible or not. But that doesn’t make it any less of a statement than “let there be light”. Whether in his mind or out loud, God “called” her “woman” before Adam did. In other words, unlike the animals, the term, the category, the identification “woman” existed before Adam uttered it. It therefore can not be equated to Adam’s action of identifying the animals, which was hardly an act of authority to begin with.