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Originally Posted by RJ Mac  1. Gen.3:8-12 The LORD God began by interacting with man in the garden of Eden, where He walked and
talked with man. God was in a form such that Adam and Eve hid from Him when they heard Him coming.
2. Gen.4:1-15 - vs.16 Cain went out from the presence of the Lord.
So was the LORD visible or was He only a voice at this time? Heb.11:4;
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Gen 3:8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
Gen 3:10 And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."
Gen 3:11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
Gen 3:12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
There is nothing here that tells us that Adam and Eve actually saw God face to face. "And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking..." is different from seeing God. Being in God's presence is not necessarily the same as seeing God, but rather God seeing us.
The same would be applied to Cain. We can speculate all day long as to what form God was when He was talking to Cain... be it an angel of the Lord, a ray of light, a voice in the air, etc., etc., but we cannot know by faith that exactly what form God was in either situation. What we do know is it was not God in His true form.