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Author Topic:   Genesis 1 vs. Genesis 2
dpardo
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Message 1 of 5 (146035)
09-30-2004 12:28 PM


From the thread entitled: "A question that was first presented by Socrates", we developed a new thread concerning the apparently conflicting accounts of creation.
jar writes:
"There are definitely two different tales told in Genesis 1&2. Not only are the orders different, the methods are different. It is not a case of things being created again, it is that the two descriptions are mutually exclusive. In one, everything is created from non-living matter, dirt. In the other, woman is cloned from an existing living critter, man. In one, male and female are created at one time and the number of each is unspecified. In the other, there is only one man and one woman and they are created at different times. In one, man and woman are created before the animals. In the other, man is created first, then all the animals, and finally the woman."
Genesis 1:26-27 says:
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The verses above state generally that he created them.
Genesis 2:7 says:
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The verse above gives specific details about man was created.
Genesis 2:21-24 says:
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
These verses above give the details concerning Eve's creation.
Is it easier for you to think that the author contradicts himself in the very next chapter than to consider that you may have interpreted it incorrectly?

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PaulK
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Message 2 of 5 (146063)
09-30-2004 1:00 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by dpardo
09-30-2004 12:28 PM


Just a question, do you accept that Genesis 1:20 describes the creation of birds on the 4th day ? And that 1:26-27 describing the creation of man are placed in the 5th day ?
Do you also accept that Genesis 2:18-19 places the creation of birds after that of man ?

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dpardo
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Message 3 of 5 (146082)
09-30-2004 1:29 PM
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09-30-2004 1:00 PM


PaulK writes:
"Just a question, do you accept that Genesis 1:20 describes the creation of birds on the 4th day ? And that 1:26-27 describing the creation of man are placed in the 5th day ?"
Did you mean to say 5th day and 6th day, respectively?

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Message 4 of 5 (146086)
09-30-2004 1:30 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by dpardo
09-30-2004 12:28 PM


Not a Coffee House type topic
Belongs in the "The Bible...." forum. Should have been processed through the "Proposed New Topics" forum.
While I'm tempted to bounce it back to the "PNT", I'll move it to the "Bible..." forum.
Adminnemooseus
Added by edit: In general, it seems that the "Coffee House" is being used too much, to bypass the "PNT" procedures. People, stop this. May cause cranky moose syndrome.
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Message 5 of 5 (146088)
09-30-2004 1:33 PM


Thread copied to the Genesis 1 vs. Genesis 2 thread in the The Bible: Accuracy and Inerrancy forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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