Bible Study Was God walking in bodily form in the Garden in Ge 3?

[TonyChanYT]

I think so. It was a theophany, a visible manifestation of God in a spacetime form.

The language was physically descriptive. Ge 3:

8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the *cool of the day,

This depicted a physical, audible presence that Adam and Eve can perceive.

and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

They reacted with God's physical closeness.

9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

The passage was not just a spiritual allegory but a historical and physical incident. The narrative emphasized the tangible, sensory, and relational nature of the events described.

 

[for_his_glory]

Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

Scripture only says Adam and Eve only heard the voice of God. He was not walking in a bodily form.