The power of naming a thing

[Brandon]

• “He gave Adam authority over other living creatures, even assigning him the enjoyable and challenging task of naming the animals.” — The Watchtower, January 15, 2014.
   
• Insight on the Scriptures similarly says that Jehovah “granted to the first man Adam the privilege of naming the lower creatures.”

 

• “Every family in heaven and on earth owes its name” to Jehovah God. (Eph 3:14, 15)

 

see also: https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Insight-on-the-Scriptures/Name

 

Why am I posting this in secular news, you may wonder? Well, remember last year Google Maps had to publish an entire article to explain the three different Gulf of Mexico labels displayed to users depending on where they are from…

 

Today, we find ourselves in a similar predicament… 

https://globalnews.ca/news/12035032/trump-threat-lake-ontario-history/