Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

I agree with you now that God isn’t quoted here. Therefore I expect you to retract your comment “God called her woman before Adam did”

Woah, you are getting brave aren’t you? Sorry my friend, but there is no need for me to retract my statement. While a narrative is not a direct quote, it gives the facts, not superstition or speculation. Whether God “spoke” out loud the words, I don’t know. But it is a fact that God identified her as woman, not as merely a female, when she was created. When God brought her to her husband, she was already identified by God for what she was. If God had not identified her before Adam did, then the account would have shown that. God would have made a “female” and Adam would have identified her as “woman”. The question should be whether God did or did not create a woman. The account says He did.

gengwall, thanks for sticking up for me. You are right on! Certainly no need for this egal to take any other view then the one presented as truth from the narrative. God created a woman just as He intended and He brought the woman, not an unidentified thing to Adam. Adam did not have to tell her what and who she was. She already knew. She had some time with God while Adam was out cold. And then the blushing bride was brought by God back to the side of Adam where she belonged.