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Originally Posted by Ezekiel Bathfire
Ge:2:19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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At first—there was a doubter visiting over New Year who was still here when I read that—the proposal was: “Aha!” (doubters like to say
aha) “But the electric eel, if even a beast at all, is of neither the field nor the air!” There was some bobbing up and down and foot shuffling going on and the general air of triumph associated with such remarks that I ignored.
Because later on, if doubters ever bothered to read complete sentences which they don't, God made plain that Adam named
every living creature, necessarily including electric eels and also these things whatever they're supposed to be.
(He called them morymids and they're electric in some way too but would be unlikely to shock Adam and we know of course that he decided not to marry a morymid. Fortunately for me, otherwise my guest would probably have started slithering.) Knowing what something's called does not require knowing what it is. For example, what Eve was remained enigmatic even though Adam had come up with a noun Genesis 2:23 and he was unable to anticipate her antics in the next chapter Genesis 3:2-6 resulting in the necessity of making clothes. Clearly death was initiated promptly after sin was transmitted from the serpent to the as-yet-unnamed woman to Adam and from him, via some physical process we don't need to go into, to everyone else. In this way we know Jesus was sin free because God produced Jesus without the process.
Pretty much checkmate, doubting person!