Assuming the Bible is accurate, why isn God in our physical presence like with Adam and Eve?
The first thing you have to be careful with is ascribing to every case of communication with God and a person in the Bible some vivid, sensory perception of some kind. Many times God spoke to people in the Bible it is the very same kind of experience that we have each day. They were deeply impressed by God, but they had learned to discern it. So first, I want to make sure that we don’t ascribe every case where God speaks to someone in the Old Testament as involving some sensory perception or overt manifestation of some kind. But second, some of them did. I maintain that still happens today. In fact, there is a tape I just saw the other day of these two girls who was captured in Afghanistan. One of the girls who was over there showing the Jesus film saw literal healings. They were watching the gospel of Luke and someone asked her, Does Jesus heal people like He did then? She said, yes, I’ll pray for you. She saw a man’s neck straightened right in front of her. She prayed for a group of
