What language did Adam speak?

[Carl Emerson]

Verbal. Adam had a spirit but it was not active, so to speak. He needed to eat from the Tree of Life to be completed spiritually. Instead, He chose to be "completed" by knowledge of good and evil, which is the realm of the soul. Eve was tempted by what she saw, by an appeal to her physical body and by the prospect of being like God - exactly what brought Satan down in the first place. (See 1 John 2:16 also)

We don't know the common language is the short answer. God scattered the people as they were building the tower of Babel. That initiated the many languages that we have to endure today. I'm English. There are counties in England where the local dialect is almost incomprehensible to those in the next county.

Language is one of the arguments against evolution. It is not an inherent ability, as anyone with a deaf child knows. They don't learn to speak until and unless they are able to hear. So how did humanity go from unintelligible grunts (you know, like teenagers talking to parents) to the amazing power of speech that we have now?

I am having trouble following your logic here...

How do you scripturally ascertain that Adam's spirit was not 'active'?

Was not the communication between Adam and God, before the fall, perfect?

Was not the human spirit given to hear the Holy Spirit?

Personally I think the language given to speak was a heavenly language unlearned from other human individuals. Adam was asked to name all the animals in this given tongue.

When Genesis was written in Hebrew thousands of years later and the earliest manuscripts were in ancient Hebrew, this does not mean the original language was Hebrew. I am happy to be corrected.

 

[klutedavid]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

As a matter of fact, before Eve was created, Adam never spoke to anyone except the Creator. Did Adam have regular discourse with God?

 

[Carl Emerson]

As a matter of fact, before Eve was created, Adam never spoke to anyone except the Creator. Did Adam have regular discourse with God?

I believe he did...

 

[Yarddog]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

My personal belief is that the story of Adam and Eve is an allegory for the Hebrew people putting themselves under the Mosaic Law, so I would say Hebrew.

 

[Silly Uncle Wayne]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

The actual language is lost to time due to the events at Babel. It would be nice to think it was spirit communication, but it is more likely to be voice as that is what they continue to use afterwards and there is no indication of the change.

Your grandson is brill

 

[setst777]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

Definitely English!

 

[Friedrich Rubinstein]

Is there scriptural support for Hebrew?

Certainly, yes. If you look at Genesis 5:1-32 for example you will see that all the names of the first humans have a meaning. A meaning in the Hebrew language. Names are not translated. It says of God in Genesis 5:2 "And he named them “Mankind”", yet we call Adam Adam and not "Man" because names don't get translated. Someone might want to say "the names listed there in Genesis are Hebrew because the Old Testament was written in Hebrew originally, so the names were Hebrew as well", but the fact that the people who wrote down these names knew the names means they knew the original names, whether Hebrew or not. And since names are names and don't get translated it means that Adam was the original name, "Man" in the original language.

Another argument for Hebrew being God's/the original language is logic:
God can talk. He created the whole universe by speaking. So God speaks a language. God also selected a group of people and calls them His people. It would be illogical to say that God gives His own, chosen people a different language than He speaks Himself. In fact I believe God to be mighty enough to make sure that the Jews speak a special language, God's language.
The tower of Babel is also no argument against it because it doesn't say the original language was deleted. God just had to add a bunch of languages.

Another argument is the perfection of the Hebrew language. If you know a bit about the language you'll know that each letter is connected to a picture as well as a number. Reading the Old Testament in its original language (Hebrew) you will see that these pictures and numbers, represented by the letters, make perfect sense and point to Jesus Christ throughout the Old Testament. For example: the very first word of the Bible, bereshit, contains the complete story of salvation including Jesus' death on the cross. Only God can create such perfectness (especially since the Jews didn't/don't believe in Jesus as their Messiah). And God then even refers to this in Isaiah 46:10 where the word bereshit appears again and God says: "I have made known the end in the beginning". God revealed the end in the beginning of the Bible, the first word of His book. Only the Hebrew language can do these things, and only God can arrange a language in such a complex way.

 

[Aussie Pete]

I am having trouble following your logic here...

How do you scripturally ascertain that Adam's spirit was not 'active'?

Was not the communication between Adam and God, before the fall, perfect?

Was not the human spirit given to hear the Holy Spirit?

Personally I think the language given to speak was a heavenly language unlearned from other human individuals. Adam was asked to name all the animals in this given tongue.

When Genesis was written in Hebrew thousands of years later and the earliest manuscripts were in ancient Hebrew, this does not mean the original language was Hebrew. I am happy to be corrected.

The reason I believe that Adam's spirit was inactive is that there was the tree of life as well as the tree of knowledge. The spirit is distinct from the soul, although they should work hand in glove. If Adam had gone by his spirit, he would have told Satan where to go. But Adam operated on reason and logic and accepted Satan's sales pitch. I imagine that his attachment to Eve was a great incentive also. So Adam made a conscious decision to disobey God and take the forbidden fruit.

If Adam had eaten from the Tree of Life, he would have become spiritually awakened. As an aside, I'm fascinated by the two trees. I once thought that if Adam had become alive spiritually, he would not have needed God. Not so. We can see the conflict even now. Most people, including many Christians, are still "eating" knowledge in the hope that they can be independent of God and live "good" lives. Spiritual people know that knowledge is not enough in itself. And it's not enough to get born again and do as you please. We need spiritual food daily or we end up with spiritual malnutrition. Lord Jesus tells us to pray for daily bread. I don't believe He's talking about physical food. He is the Living bread. That's the point of John 6, 26-56.

My reading of the Genesis account states that Adam heard God's voice. At that time, Adam was spiritually dead. So he could not hear God's voice in his spirit. So it had to be a language - and that is an unsolvable mystery in this life.

 

[Aussie Pete]

Not true! He was speaking in Latin of course, which everyone knows is the tongue of angels Paul referred to in 1 Cor 13:1. Sheez

Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans, and now it's killing me". Courtesy of the Royal Latin Grammar School, which absorbed 3 years of my life. My greatest relief was when I found that I could ditch Latin after the first year. Nunquam iterum.

 

[RDKirk]

As a matter of fact, before Eve was created, Adam never spoke to anyone except the Creator. Did Adam have regular discourse with God?

He spoke to the animals, and probably to creation in general, as Jesus did.

 

[zoidar]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

There are many questions here. Was Adam one man or does Adam symobolize mankind? If Adam was the first man, was Adam the first being with a spoken language? Was Adam maybe one of many human beings at that time, one of a group of people? Was the language devoloped over time or was it given to him at instant?

 

[Strong in Him]

Definitely English!

The Queen's English, if you please.

 

[Semper-Fi]

Do You Understand English? Then You Can Read Ancient Hebrew* - Watch Jerusalem

Here’s how the ancient alphabet of the Israelites has come to
be used by nearly 70 percent of the world’s population.

 

[wonderkins]

There are many questions here. Was Adam one man or does Adam symobolize mankind? If Adam was the first man, was Adam the first being with a spoken language? Was Adam maybe one of many human beings at that time, one of a group of people? Was the language devoloped over time or was it given to him at instant?

Adam can't symbolize all of mankind. Genesis 5 says adam fathered Seth at 130. Gen 5:5 says he lived 930 years. That is the beginning of a genealogy list up to Noah. Mankind did not cease to exist after 930 years. Adam was a real man.

Romans 5 says sin came in to the world by one man.

 

[Quasiblogo]

Well, one thing for sure, it didn’t have an accent.

 

[fhansen]

Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans, and now it's killing me". Courtesy of the Royal Latin Grammar School, which absorbed 3 years of my life. My greatest relief was when I found that I could ditch Latin after the first year. Nunquam iterum.

Well, most angels probably aren't all that interesting anyway.

 

[pescador]

What language did Adam speak? That's easy: "King James" English. Here are his first words(!):

“This one at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.” Genesis 2:23b

“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” [and then] The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” Genesis 3:10-12

And that was before Hebrew!

 

[Religiot]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

That is a great question.

I think it was voice, but the language, that's something to ponder, cause it exists, because it was handed down, but confused at the Tower of Babel.

I wonder if it's Hebrew...

 

[BobRyan]

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

The one God gave him... presumably the same one the Angels speak.

Adam came in as an adult where God had downloaded all the software for him to function, reason, count, walk, jump, run, sleep and even the maturity to be a married man not a one-day-old simpleton. So safe to say that He would have downloaded the ability to talk to his wife and the angels just as we might today.

 

[Semper-Fi]

Jeremiah 1:9 (KJV)
Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth.
And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words
in thy mouth.

What language did Adam speak?
We do know The same as God and the Angeles.

“And God said"

Before the Angels there was God and the Word.
God spoke and things where made out of nothing.

God made the Angeles ability to sing[choro].

God made Adam and Eve in the garden.
“in our image, after our likeness.”

God spoke to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply …”

Man was given the ability to think and to put
those thoughts into spoken words.

Adam named all the animals, we are still finding more.
Adam and Eve understood that old serpent [satan].

In Future There will be singing in Eden, like before.
God could have made musical instruments to play also.


Isaiah 59:21 (KJV)
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;
My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put
in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
-

The first reference to writing and Words may be
in Genesis 4:26. The passage can be translated as
“to read, to publish the name of the Lord.” ?