Did Jehovah God speak to Adam directly?

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  pixel

  This is from Genesis' Bible Highlights:

  WT says:

  3:8—Did Jehovah God speak to Adam directly? The Bible reveals that when God spoke to humans, it was often through an angel. ( Genesis 16:7-11; 18:1-3, 22-26; 19:1; Judges 2:1-4; 6:11-16, 22; 13:15-22 ) God’s chief spokesman was his only-begotten Son, called “the Word.” ( John 1:1 ) Very likely God spoke to Adam and Eve through “the Word.”— Genesis 1:26-28; 2:16; 3:8-13 .

  What does the Bible says?:

  "Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the face of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden." - Genesis 3:8.

  Why on earth would God wanted to be written " the voice of Jehovah God" when it was the supossely the voice of Michael, Jesus, Abaddon?

  Another case of the WT/GB/FDS saying whatever they want.

  What's the freaking problem with A&E hearing God's voice???
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  blondie

  Answered using the VERY LIKELY clause........

  *** w90 5/1 p. 30 Questions From Readers ***

  ▪ Did Jehovah God speak to Adam directly, or did he speak through the Word, the only-begotten Son of God?

  The Bible does not give us an explicit answer to this question. While God could have spoken directly to his perfect human son in Eden, likely He communicated with Adam through the Word.

  Did God speak through an angel, perhaps the Logos, who became Jesus? That is quite possible. While not being dogmatic, C. T. Russell wrote: “Jesus perhaps was the Representative of God in the Garden of Eden with Adam.” (The Watch Tower, February 1, 1915) God’s firstborn Son long served in the exalted capacity of his Father’s “Word,” or Spokesman, to angels and men. (John 1:1; 12:49, 50; Revelation 1:1, 2) So even if the Genesis account conveys the impression that God spoke directly to solitary Adam, that does not rule out His speaking through an angel, including the Word,
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  pixel

  Thanks Blondie.

  Intereting: So even if the Genesis account conveys the impression that God spoke directly to solitary Adam..

  "Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the face of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden." - Genesis 3:8.

  I don't see anything that "conveys the impression. Is plain and simple: The voice of Jehovah God.
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  RubaDub

  It's amazing how so much time and energy can be spent on a question that noone has the answer to.

  It just makes me think that when the WT and Awake were a total of 128 pages a month (32x4) that they needed content to fill the pages.

  The Bible says that it was Jehovah's voice. Anything beyond that is useless speculation.

  Why not have a QFR on what size were Jesus' sandals, whether Balaam's ass spoke with an accent, if John the Baptist would baptize people with logos on their shirts ... etc etc etc.

  Rub a Dub
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  Comatose

  It baffles the mind why they feel they have to give an opinion On this shit. Why not just say the bible says he spoke to Adam if that meant something else we will have to wait and see. Why do you feel the need to weigh in??? So amazingly stupid to offer these opinions. Similar to will people god executed be resurrected. Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, Yes. Why?!!???!!!!?? Just say we don't know!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dumbies.
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  alanv

  "Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day.

  Now to me reading that, it looks like the writer of Genesis is saying God was walking in the garden. Is it just me or does it look like that to others too?
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  Apognophos

  Yes, this whole disagreement with what the Bible actually says stems from the evolution of the concept of God. In the early stories, YHWH is a powerful man-like figure, so him walking in the garden and forming Adam from earth with his hands is considered perfectly acceptable (as with visually appearing to Moses on the mountain, or eating with Abraham). Later on, as God became more abstract and all-powerful, it simply wouldn't do for God to lower himself to speaking or interacting directly with humans, so these accounts had to be reinterpreted. "Oh, what the Bible really meant to say was..."
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  Dis-Member

  Does this mean that not only does God not speak or have direct interaction with imperfect sinful humans but also perfect sinless ones too?

  If so what hope ever is there of anyone ever having any kind of real and direct relationship with God?

  We are all doomed.
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  Pistoff