How does Adam speak of a mother and father when he had no mother and God was his father?

Answer 1

In Genesis 2:24, after the creation of Eve, before Adam could have understood the concept of a father or mother, and before God had condemned Eve to even have children, he says, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" In isolation, this does not seem to make sense.

Ancient Hebrew did not have punctuation, so it can, with some difficulty, be assumed that Adam stopped speaking when he finished saying, "Because she was taken out of man" and that the following words are narrative dictum, but even if given this meaning the words of Genesis 2:24 remain anachronistic. It can really only be explained by the manner of the development over time, of the creation story.

Answer 2

Adam did not say that. That verse comes after the verse that is a quotation of Adam.

Answer 3

The verse in question is prophetically addressing all generations, not Adam himself..