...because he designed us for it.
Andy Crouch in Culture Making: "In the following verse we see God "making room" for his image-bearers to begin to grow into the vast cosmic purpose that was disclosed in Genesis 1 (to rule and have dominion). God is perfectly capable of naming every animal and giving Adam a dictionary--but he does not...
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. (Gen 2:19)
...He makes room for Adam's creativity--not just waiting for Adam to give a preexisting right answer to a quiz, but genuinely allowing Adam to be the one who speaks something out of nothing, a name where there had been none, and allowing that name to have its own being.
Adam, like his Maker, will be both gardner and poet, both creator and cultivator. The creator simply watches, listens, and it is good" (110).
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