Names for the animals, Where is that list?

by Satanus 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Satanus

  In genesis 2, it says,

  19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
  
  20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; (NRSV)

  Why did god have adam name the animals? What were those names? Why were those names lost? Why were they not recorded in god's word to mankind, as an eternal name guide to scientists and mankind in general?

  The wt uses the arguement that god named the original humans and had adam name the animals. Therefore, it is logical that god would also have a name. Further, that theists had better use that name, or else. For this arguement to hold water, would it not follow that the animals' original names would also have been preserved, or revived in god's word? Questions, questions, this is why they dffed me.

  S
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  sinis

  I wonder if animals are smarter than we think or could have been. After all WHO is god talking to when he says:

  Genesis 1:

  25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

  26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  The WTS says he was talking to his son, jesus, but that is not the context of the scriptures.
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  Nathan Natas

  According to documents that I have seen in the National Archives, Adam was not very imaginative in his naming: virtually EVERTHING was named "Fido."

  After the flood Noah and his worldwide organization of theocrats started at square one, naming the dove that came back to the ark "Chewbacca."

  Noah also saw to it that the files from Adam's computer were erased seven times seventy times.

  Only one sheet of 20# white bond laser print was overlooked, and it is in the national Archives today.

  or else I'm lying.
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  Satanus

  Sinis

  After all WHO is god talking to when he says:...

  Chimpanzies?

  NN

  So, that's where it is.

  S
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  kid-A

  The records are hard to find now of course. However, Adam liked to name jehoobies menagerie according to the behaviours he observed among the glorious beasties.

  For example, the original Aramaic word for Gorilla is "Scheitflinger", meaning, "flinger of poop". He named the dog "footsiefokker" meaning "humper of legs", etc etc.

  Naturally, Adam was pissed at jehoobie for making him name all these blessed creatures (and for minimum wage no less) so in a fit of homo sapien fury, Adam took the scrolls

  and threw them into the burning bush.....ah but thats another story altogether....
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  Satanus

  Kid-a

  You think that adam wised up about the naming business being a time waster? I was thinking that maybe it was something to keep adam busy until the creator got around to making a playmate helpmate for him. Keep him from finding other things that he could do w his dinger, besides peeing.

  S
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  kid-A

  "Keep him from finding other things that he could do w his dinger, besides peeing."

  Well, Satanus, like most primates, he was likely spending alot of time using his body as his "own personal amusement park" to paraphrase Estelle Costanza.

  This menial task likely would have prevented him from growing hair on his palms, as jehoobie likely feared would result with excessive "self-abuse" LOL
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  sinis

  Kid-a

  You think that adam wised up about the naming business being a time waster? I was thinking that maybe it was something to keep adam busy until the creator got around to making a playmate helpmate for him. Keep him from finding other things that he could do w his dinger, besides peeing.

  S

  Yea, but what came first, the innie or the outie? If there was no playmate for adam then did he even have a third member?
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  Leolaia

  sinis....LOL, that's a creative reading but it contradicts the context. The specific kinds of the "beasts according to their kinds" are ennumerated in the preceding verse as "livestock, creatures that move about on the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind". Then we read in v. 26:

  Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground".

  These are the same "beasts" mentioned in the preceding verse. In other words, the "you" inclusive in the "we" (e.g. "me" + "you" = "we") would inexplicably shift to the third person "they" within the same sentence. The "you" inclusive in the "we" are not the animals created the day before.

  Genesis 11:7 provides an instructive parallel: "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other". This implies that God and the "you" he is addressing are both in heaven. The addressee in the original narrative is most likely the divine council mentioned throughout the OT. The christological interpretation is of course a later understanding of the "we" passages.
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  tan

  Excellent question...mind boggling. Maybe because some of the bible texts are missing???? That's what a JW would say. I've often wondered how new names of animals come up years later if Adam named all of the animals. Does that include those microscopic creatures???