Genesis Creation Stories: Sequence Contradictions?

Coragyps writes:No conflict there at all, as long as you don't read what's written there, at least.

Crashfrog writes:What's the deal, here? You just can't read clear statements in English or something?"I will" means he hasn't yet. As in, he hasn't made animals or any help meets until after he made Man.

Coragyps writes:It's a collection of stories. Folktales.

Crashfrog writes:At the time that God speaks those words ("It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."), the helpmeets to which he refers are the animals he's about to create, not Eve.

Doctrbill writes:In the second scenario there is dry land, everywhere

Crashfrog writes:Well, the text certainly gives no indication that God knows that to be the case until Adam finds out.

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Doctrbill writes:Beginning at Genesis 2:5 the earth is described as if it were a desert.

Yeah. It's obviously the same story!

I don't mean to offend, but it seems to me everyone must have been committing incest.

Crashfrog writes:But it does take a scholar, apparently, to know that the chapter breaks are not from the original text, and can therefore be essentially disregarded.

AdminNosy writes:So I think it is dpardo's turn to explain why something not in the "original" can't be disregarded.

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