Cheryl Schatz

Hey Mark,
Welcome back!

Why are you back peddling. In your post you were quite confident that verse 22 shows God ‘naming’ Eve before Adam, and now you have just incorporated pinklights idea of ‘identity’ to support yourself. Either verse 22 says God named woman or it doesn’t. You can’t say that God did, and then try to skirt your way around it by justification.

I haven’t back peddled at all. Looks like you just don’t understand me. God identified the female as a woman. Call it naming call it identifying, its the same thing really. The fact is that she is a woman whether that is a name or not. The fact is that she was identified/called as to her identity by God before Adam knew her is a precious thing as God knows us first! Our identity doesn’t depend on the man. It depends on God! I love that in God. He is the one who knows our nature through and through and He has made us equal rulers with the man. If that might offend you, I’m sorry that you might be offended. I rejoice in God’s identifying our worth!