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I kindly say that Adam (the man) walked with God and God walked with Adam. Adam loved God and God loved Adam. Adam had fellowship with God and God fellowship with Adam. Adam worked for God because he loved God not because God kept him busy out of a slavish fear but because Adam loved God and was greatful for all God had given him. Yes Adam needed an Eve but Eve had not yet been given. Once again it was God who said "It is not good for the man that he should be alone" Adam was perfectly happy with knowing God.
All this is really very easy. Did God make Adam originally to be alone or to have a help-meet? Did God change His mind after the original creation? Is God a liar saying that Adam should not be alone? Does God say anything without a just cause? God never created Adam just for fellowship with Himself, He always intended for Adam to have fellowship with Eve. It was not that Adam was dissatisfied with his fellowship with God, but rather the way God made Adam in the first place ....

Though some thing or someone (save God) is perfect it can still mature. Though Adam walked with God his fellowship was not yet complete. As I have pointed out on several occasions here Adam, though he walked with God was not experiencing the fullness of fellowship, for as the Scripture says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). No matter how much Adam ever walked with God, he never experienced this ... until Christ came on the scene as the atonement for His elect.

You need to understand that though Adam was created perfect, he was not done maturing and growing. Just because something is perfect, it can still grow--look at the rest of creation--God said it was very good, but it kept maturing .... Adam kept maturing though he was created perfect ..... In glory we will continue to grow as well...


Reformed and Always Reforming,