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There are two different communications here. It is surely implied in Genesis 2:19 that God communicate with Adam, otherwise Adam would not have known that God wanted him to name the animals. “Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought...

How can that be still in the Garden of Eden? Adam was in Eden, and we are told that God brought all the animals to Noah there, not that they were all there already.

Yes, I am sorry, I think I misread or misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were saying that we only sin when we act out our evil thoughts, which is why I quoted the bible passage. But on re-reading your post, I see you didn't say that at all. I apologise for the misunderstanding.

Thanks. I wasn't exactly locked out, though there was a day when I couldn't access CC because it wouldn't open, and I just got a "timed out" message.

Not only American. Here in the UK too, that is the sort of reply many people would give.

Not sure. What's Go Daddy?

I agree. Horatius Bonar wrote a hymn that says: Not what my hands have done Can save my guilty soul; Not what my toiling flesh hath borne Can make my spirit whole. 2 Not what I feel or do Can give me peace with God; Not all my prayers and sighs and tears Can bear my awful load. 3 Thy work...

I wonder how you see Ephesians 1 as not being about salvation. I agree he is addressing people who have already been saved. He is surely reminding them (and us) of the marvels of salvation. Things he mentions, like adoption as God's sons, being made accepted in the Beloved, redemption and...

In Ephesians 1, Paul is talking about salvation, and how God chose individuals before creation, not just chose the means of salvation, though that is true too: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in...

Not according to the bible: “Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” (Ge 2:19 NKJV)

Thanks Robert. I don't agree that the scriptures say we only sin when we allow our desires to rule. Jesus said: “"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery...

Yes you are right, we seem to differ on the definition of "lonely." You think it means the same as "alone." I think it's possible to be alone without feeling that negative emotion of loneliness. I don't think Adam before the Fall could have felt loneliness, because sin had not spoiled his...

Where does the bible say that Adam named the animals because he was lonely? In fact, the bible doesn't say that he was lonely. It says that God said, "It is not good that man should be alone."

It all sounds rather tenuous and cryptic. I don't believe that God presents His word to us as some kind of cryptic crossword puzzle. Certainly we have to study it, and compare scripture with scripture, but I ncannot agree that we are supposed to apply numbers from the letters that form names...

There is considerable difference between, "You are not my mother is because you are not 5'4"" and "But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep." In the first, the woman being spoken to is a different height to the speaker's mother, so she cannot be the speaker's mother. It would...

I don't know New Testament Greek. Certainly in English Jesus seems quite clearly to be saying that the reason His hearers did not believe was that they were not of His sheep. The next words support this view: “"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (Joh 10:27 NKJV)...

Against that idea, we have Jesus saying to some of His Jewish hearers: “"But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.” (Joh 10:26 NKJV) He didn't say they could become His sheep in the future by believing, but that they did not believe because they were not of...

So why do we read in the high priestly prayer of Jesus: “"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.” (Joh 17:9 NKJV)

....and he lived a lot longer than we do today: “So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.” (Ge 5:5 NKJV)