god’s language assignment to adam exposed a void. unfolded incompleteness.
in naming creation adam realizes a need. a desire. for relational answering. for intimacy. naming something involves knowing it intimately, it’s an inextricably personal and meaningful process. one that must have taken a long time and a lot of thought.
he nailed it. can you imagine calling a fox by any other name. or a robin, a hippopotamus. or a skunk. you just don’t pull that out. and eventually adam is able to call all of creation by name… but they don’t answer. god chose to construct the story of creation this way. he set him up!
countless numbers of jewish people went without a messiah. without intimacy. set up. adam must have been so lonely. none were like him. none capable of relationship, all of them at the mercy of primal instincts. adam was participating in creation. by himself. incompleteness.
actual story or allegory, either way, exposes god's intentions. brilliance. plan. he's continually creating. it doesn’t stop in genesis. he is shaping us, never a non participant. and maybe, just maybe, beyond my short-sightedness, there is a reason for my state of inefficacy. my feelings of mediocrity. puerility. incompleteness.
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