The activity of God in 2:18-22 give the impression of prior occasions of God walking in the garden. Privacy Policy. But there is so much more to the story. As I mentioned in my conclusion, God certainly could have taken taken strolls with Adam and Eve, but the Bible does not directly teach this, and I have my doubts about it. I decided to search the internet to see WHY people believe this. Finally, there are many who use the idea of Adam and Eve actually walking with God to stress the theological point of mans closeness to God prior to sin in order to contrast that with mans lost condition after sin. He does indeed come down, but this time for confrontation and judgment, whereas before it had been for fellowship. I too have always heard that God walked with Adam & Eve in the cool of the day every day. He gives them clothes in Verse 21 because the evil deed, of eating from . Personal fellowship with God is at the very heart of our purpose for being! So no, I will not take down this post or apologize for it, unless you can actually show me where the Bible says that they did walk with God. It is true that they had not experienced death yet, they came pre-programmed with an ability to speak and understand things. The same two words are translated elsewhere . 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. Im not opposed to this idea. It was part of the sad deception that the man and woman who wanted so much to be like God, rather than obtaining the stature of deity, are afraid even to commune with him. Yet now the man and the woman are hiding from God in fear. You can see from the above that God decreed several things for Adam to honour and obey. As I mentioned in the conclusion, God could have walked with them, but the Bible does not tell us that He did. In spite of being familiar with scripture, I never noticed that it doesnt exactly say this. It says, coats of skin. Adam's spiritual life, through fellowship with God, depended on Adam's respect for God's laws. In order to answer the question of why God created Adam and Eve naked we first need to look as some Scriptures which show that the Bible uses clothing is a symbol of our character. The Lord can speak out of it and He can perform any other functions, such as making coats of skins, while in that form. Genesis 3:8. I clarified my statement about strong wind being a better translation to point out that there are scholars who make this claim, like J.J. Niehaus. That would be what we today would consider a lifetime of experiencing Gods faithfulness and guidance, only to throw it away in a single day! Picture this. 16 I also will do this unto you I will appoint unto you terror consumption burning ague that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart and you shall sow your seed in vain your enemies shall eat it17 and I will set my face against you 18 and if you still dont listen to Mei will punish you 7 times more for your sins please not that it is sin that seperates man from god. I would argue that angels are probably made in His image as well,. So what did they hear in the Garden? After creating Adam, God "put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it" (Genesis 2:15). We walk with the voice of God as well. Weve arrived at a very similar conclusion very recently that Adam and his wife or help-meat very possibly disobeyed their creators command not to eat of the fruit of tree in the midst of the garden the first day they were placed there. It seems likely that many people have just remembered some of the wording in this verse and assumed that it says Adam and Eve walked with God. Hi Tim So if your standard were correct, then that same standard would itself have to be outright affirmed in the Bible. Just read John 1 it says God was there in the beginning and on earth in the flesh so just read the book. You read that correctly, the Bible never states that Adam and Eve walked with God in the Garden. Im sure the water God supplied was for the animals as well as the people. Keep up the search for accuracy. This would have been after God made Eve and Adam awoke and uttered the words in Genesis 2:23. They will live forever, and as well see in the coming chapters, some of them have been given dominion over certain things. Although Exodus established that God was present everywhere through the judgement on Egypt, it also taught that God would be present in a special way in the tabernacle (later to be replaced by the temple). Yes, Adam and Eve were sinless, but this doesnt mean that Gods physical presence needed to be right where they were. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. God Arraigns Adam and Eve. First, we are told that God made man from the dust of the ground, and he didnt become a living being until God breathed the breath of life into him (Genesis 2:7). No sowing or reaping for 3 years! The Bible likens our righteousness to filthy rags. Say, for example, that they werent expelled from the Garden until they were 60+ or 70+ (or older). Now at that time there was an evil spirit called Satan. For Adam to know that the sound he heard was the sound of God, he must have heard it before. The Garden of Eden, the terrestrial Paradise known also as the Garden of God, is one of the most famous settings in the Bible. Hi Nucc, There are many, many Christians who have heard and taught that Adam and Eve physically took walks with God in the garden before they sinned. Im not sure what this has to do with whether they walked with God in the garden. In a similar way, we are told in the New Testament to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16). Of course, since God is capable of making physical appearances. Just a quick note: The verb used here in verse 8 to describe the divine movement of God mihalli (sorry, my keyboard isnt able to type this word out correctly) suggests iterative and habitual aspects. The chronology of the genealogy of the man is followed throughout the Bible. One of those commandments was as follows: "And the LORD God gave this command to Adam: 'You may freely eat from every tree in the garden, except you must not eat of the tree of the knowledge of . Because at this time there are only three people left from the list. Thanks for the kind words. Maybe it is implied elsewhere in the Bible? So there minds were NOT YET CORRUPTED until God ALLOWED there FREE WILL to be tested, just as the Father through the Holy Spirit ALLOWED Christ Jesus to be tested in the wilderness. 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It would literally have been paradise just to walk with Jesus in the . Sam. However, God did come physically to Abraham and ate. never seen what GOD actually looks like. Tonight I was thinking about it again. This just goes on and on and on all the way through this book about how god expects his people to walk with him please read the book of Leviticus slowly it gives all the details that genesis doesnt. No? God also brought the animals to Adam so he could name them. To use your example, it would be like if people repeatedly said, The Bible says Adam watched the stars every night while in the Garden. Even if he did do that, the Bible doesnt say that he did, and it would be worth correcting someone on that point. God must have schooled him in his new surroundings. Im not making an accusation here, but I do want to help people avoid making this mistake. But even if that happens to be the right way to look at it, then it may still be correct to view this as a theophany. God formed Adam from the dust and breathed His own life into the man (Genesis 2:7). they heard him rebuke them. The Tree of Life was in the Garden was it not? I dont find your suggestion to be plausible. (Gen. 3:8) Adam is placed in the garden to "cultivate (abad)" and "keep (samar)" it (Gen 2:15). ILL TAKE YOUR APOLIGE NOW ,,WHERE THEY USE TO WALK WITH GOD ,THEY CHOOSE TO HIDE !! The first words recorded from Eve are from her encounter with the serpent. They were not merely spiritual beings at that point. Surely, He wouldve given them the ability to do that right from the start. Or perhaps just the knowledge of being disobedient & the result of knowing their nakedness is what caused him to be afraid. The only time we see Eve converse with God in Scripture is after she ate the fruit and hid with Adam among the trees of the garden. Your email address will not be published. My main point is that we dont go around saying that the Bible says that Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden, because that just isnt in there. Later that day, God was walking in the Garden of Eden. Anyway, Im very surprised I forgot to include a link to an article on theophanies that I wrote for Answers in Genesis. Hi Ralph, With this particular issue, the reason I addressed it is because I hear it so frequently. (Meditating upon God's Word makes it a consistent part of our daily . Do you think that statement is a stepping stone for misleading Gods people? Jesus is Lord God, He is the Son of God. Please do look it up, and if you find it, let me know, so I can apologize and correct this post. No, I mean that God must have spent time with them in order to teach them, how else would they learn to talk, to till the land, to eat, to basically live their lives in a way that was pleasing to Him! Your answer leaves many questions for me though Please explain the remaining context of Gen. 3 in Adams walk with God. We know that God was with Adam and Eve at all times and wherever they were. Yes, I do understand that God desires relationship with His peopleto walk with them as they walk with Him. If this is how the phrase should be translated, then God was not simply walking through the Garden. As I mentioned in the conclusion of the article, it is certainly possible that the Lord walked with Adam and Eve, and if He did, then it may well have been the preincarnate Christ who walked with them. I appreciate the encouraging words. Like your parents can be in the house with you and not in the same room but you can clearly hear them in another part of the house. Of course, the eternal Son, the Word by whom the Father made all things has always been present at the Father's right hand. To say that life was good in the Garden of Eden would be an understatement. He is eternally begotten of the Father, one with the Father, in essence, but he had not yet become flesh. ~~~~~ There are other passages in Scripture about those who did walk with God. But why wouldnt the Israelites use the animals for sustenance-milk,meat,skins, etc. How beautifully expressive are these words of the familiar and condescending manner in which He had hitherto held intercourse with the first pair. It means closeness, intimacy, communion. In other words, he wasn't Jesus of Nazareth walking . Keep up the good work. Hi Janice, I dont recall what prompted it, but I do remember searching for the phrase, God walked with Adam in the cool of the day. I am so happy to find your website. Its the generous support of our ministry partners that enables us to continue our eternity-shaping work. But nowhere does it mention or even implies that they "saw" God face to face. This would still fit with the idea of God coming in judgment, which was given as a possibility in the article. Lets take a teacher in a class room full of students, then have the teacher leave the room, chaos will ensue, amen? Then ended up here. Upon marrying, Moses recounts God's command for husband and wife: "a man shallbe joined to . Thanks for taking the time to read the blog post and for your kind words. He may have seen the trees and the garden as God spoke those words, but he probably hadnt eaten yet. I think you misunderstand what was meant by the possibility of God coming in the wind. 8 Then GOD planted a garden in Eden, in the east. Adam did hear Gods voice at another time. And to the hill of frankincense. Why would anyone ask such a silly question? The Bible even indicates that God may have taken on a physical form in order to walk with Adam and Eve in the garden (Genesis 3:8). Theres no definitive proof, but the passages implication seems clear to me. It bothered me for the day into right now where I went on the internet to find something credible and I landed here. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden. CLAIM #1: But that isnt the point of what I wrote. Maybe He was physically there throughout the short time that they were in the Garden, but I have my doubts., By a plain reading, Genesis 2:7 and 2:22c reasonably are inferred to imply that the place where God formed Adam, and then Eve, was a place some way *outside* of the garden (and this place likely being that of the shore of a river or a sea). Hi Tim you stated; How many pastors and other teachers have taught that the Bible says Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden? So comparing Adam and Eve to children who need to learn to talk, eat, etc. Seasoned or mature believers should know the text, the text is the milk, living the text is the meat. And in Genesis 3:10 Adam heard that familiar sound (be it foot steps, voice, wind or otherwise) & hid. Thank you for reaffirming to me that we can say anything about God and find some reason for or against our reasoning, and that is why we have to be very careful to know what Gods Word says! No the bible didnt directly say they walked with God. Adam was ashamed to stand before God as he was now a sinner who was about to face his righteous God. But as seasoned believers we need to understand it is better to use our hearts to hear the sermons the pastors preach rather than the details of the text. I am not disagreeing and saying that Gods reason for coming was not to proclaim judgment, I am disagreeing by saying that we can not say for sure what Gods reason was for coming, Scripture doesnt clarify. Not once. He never showed him self He when He was showing himself to Moses and the others He revealed himself to in some other form. Why werent they mentioned? He created a vast array of angels prior to the creation of man, so theres no guarantee that God spent a bunch of time with Adam and Eve. Fifth, if someone doesn't like the idea that God knew they would be . We know that the Israelites did eat some of their animals during the year. They consisted of both physical and spiritual components, just like all of their descendants, although originally they were without sin. The Lord God Walking in the Garden. It is true that the Bible does not say, Adam and Eve never walked with God in the garden. That isnt the point of my post. It bothers me that I have believed the Bible stated this, and that I have told other people it says this for so long, and I have read the first three chapters of Genesis so many times. So, heres one guy that wont repeat this again. I was scanning Gen 2&3 to use the text where God walked with Adam in the garden. What if the coats of skin were actually human skin as we have now. Keep up the good work brother, the TRUTH shall be the only thing that sets us free. However, most people inevitably mention them walking in the cool of the day, so they arent thinking of it in the figurative sense. In other words, human beings were made to reflect Gods gloryto show the world what God is likethrough who we are and what we do. And how many times is this a supporting argument for a main point or the main point itself? Christ exemplified the relationship that mankind should have with our heavenly Father and creator. I hope this helps. This is a different subject. Im not sure you have dealt sufficiently with the argument that God must have walked with Adam and Eve in the garden previously for Adam and Eve to know that they sound they heard was God. Sorry for the delayed response. Hi Tim. In conclusion, the whole of chapter 2 & 3 causes me to conclude that Adam regularly communed with God somehow; and to me probably daily (or at least almost) since we know we are the apple of His eye. It says that he went to the land of Nod and then she conceived a son (Enoch). Again, in Gen 3:24, we see that God drove the man out of the Garden of Eden. There are many others that could be added to this list but this illustrates . With that in mind, I would disagree with you on the reason you give for why God came to the garden that day. We do see examples of theophanies in the Old Testament where God does appear to people in human form, as He did to Abraham. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.". With that in mind, what makes you say, from the text of Genesis, that the phrase translated cool of the day would be better translated a strong wind? If strong wind is the better translation, when prior to this event did God manifest himself to Adam and Eve in a strong wind in such a way that when they heard the strong wind on this occasion, they knew instantly that it was the sound of God? What was their relationship? He was given the title of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" because he knew good and evil. Thanks for reading. Genesis 3:8 Context. God then planted a garden 'eastward in Eden' (2:8), containing both the tree of life and 'the tree of knowledge of good . Whats different, and merits the commentary, is not that God has for the first time come to walk in the Garden, but that for the first time his walking in the Garden is responded to in fear and hiding, due to sin. The first consequence of Adam and Eve's momentous decision to reject God's revelation was a . I agree that it is very possible that God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden but there is no written statement(s) that support this. There were two special fruit trees in the garden: The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. It is definitely possible that the person in the Garden was the preincarnate Christ. If you want to try to build a case for the possibility, thats fine with me too. Regarding your logic in your blog post here, titled, Did Adam and Eve Walk with God in the Garden? Ive enjoyed reading your article, the comments and your responses. Sincerely, Hi Warren, The article is not imposing a narrow standard that makes no room for inference or implication. I can see that cool of the day can be also be breath, spirit, or wind. There are warnings in Scripture about adding to it. They may have done that, and I wouldnt have any problem with it. Adam and Eve surely knew that the punishment for rebellion was deathand even if they didnt understand the fullness of that word, they knew it wasnt good. Genesis 3:8 ? As you supposed, God did provide water for the animals too. In that claim, I put your OWN verbatim in single quotes. Instead of adding our own ideas to Scripture and stating them dogmatically and demanding apologies from anyone who disagrees, perhaps we should learn to deal carefully with the word of God. Why would God spend time with them, because He loved them and wanted to share His love with them! Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixtybooks and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. The Bible doesnt tell us how old Cain was when he murdered his brother, but it does give us a potential clue. We "Walk With God" in Meditating upon His Word. I do however give a lot of thought when people preach/teach as truth that which is not written but surmised by man/woman to have taken place. Further, although the phrase could be translated as a strong wind, the text would still say that he came walking in a strong wind. The point of my post was not to condemn anyone who believes that they did. They and their children would experience sickness, pain, and physical death. God has, in certain instances, revealed Himself in bodily form. well, they say that Jesuss life was that of God or perhaps he was God. They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. God also provided quail for a whole month (Numbers 11:1920). They hide among the trees. Ok, we have God as a highly elevated being that perhaps didnt want to spend timewith all of this. If used in this sense, Adam and Eve did "walk" with God prior to sin because there was no fracture in their relationship with God. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8).The use of the term walk with reference to God brings up the issue of God communicating to humankind in human language. The Man came alivea living soul! Before He came to earth two thousand years ago, Jesus appeared at various times in the Old Testament in a physical form. But, despite the beauty of God's new world, there was one thing missing. On the sixth day of Creation, God created 'man' in the form of Adam, moulding him from 'the dust of the ground' (Genesis 2:7), breathing the breath of life into Adam's nostrils. Thanks for taking the time to read the article and for the comment. I know its there somewhere, isnt it? I had always taken it for granted too that God walked with Adam in the cool of the day which He very well might haveand Id like to use my imagination and believe that He did but the Bible definitely doesnt say that He did. If so, that means Cain and Abel could have been over 120 years old when Cain killed Abel. The parts of the claim that are not in quotes are my reasonable inferences of your intent, given what you do *say verbatim*. 2 keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.3 IF YOU WALK IN MY STATUTES AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND DO THEM 4 then I will give you rain in due season and the land shall give her increase and the trees of the field shall yield there fruit. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden Genesis 3:8. I believe God appeared to Adam and Eve and Cain and Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (when He wrestled with Him) and the parents of Samson, and even to Balaam and his donkey, the same way He appeared to John. Have you ever wondered exactly how the conversation between God and Adam went down in the Garden of Eden? The Hebrew verb, halak, is translated as "walking" in this passage. If youve been impacted by our resources, we invite you to make a year-end gift before December 31. Psalm 29 also uses strong imagery to show how the sound of the Lord acts upon nature like a powerful storm, breaking and bending trees and stripping off their leaves (Psalm 29:59, NET). You havent dealt with this in your explanation. For more on the issue of Cains wife, see this article: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/cains-wife-who-was-she/. They were placed in the Garden of Eden and given everything they needed: food, work, companionship, and fellowship with God as they walked with him in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8). Genesis 2 describes Adam and Eve's first homethe Garden of Eden. So if the strong wind idea is actually being conveyed by the Hebrew, then there is no textual basis for claiming that Adam and Eve walked with God in the Garden in the cool of the day. We do see God speaking to both of them in Genesis 1:2830 when He blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply and told them to eat vegetation. Thanks for the kind response. 5. And then. But it would be nice for you or someone else to show me where the Bible ever makes that claim. They had bone and flesh before they sinned, before they recognized their nakedness. So I wouldnt personally address this part of Adam walking with God or not unless the message was ill. Hi Bryan, Adam and Eve were happy and satisfied in the beautiful garden. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. Thanks again. No human can view the full reality of God and . The main point of this entire post is to encourage Christians to look closely at Scripture, so that they will stop saying, The Bible says Adam and Eve walked with God or something very similar. They were created with perfect bodies and were husband and wife on the day they were created. 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