He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. But it doesn’t say anything about animals talking does it? So God called all the animals to Adam and Adam gave them names, that’s why elephants are called elephants and badgers are called badgers. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.” Genesis 2:18-20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. But wouldn’t it be great if animals could speak just like us? But you guys aren’t animals, you may behave like animals sometimes but your not animals your human beings, made in God’s image.

Well in some ways the congregation here are blessed to have many animals among us who can speak just like us. Do you believe that animals can speak? I think animals can speak in their own languages whether it is meow or woof, woof.

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