In the context of casual conversation, we've probably all done that.
What, contradicted ourselves in the space of two sentences?
Who are you, Dick Cheney?
Example please.
Read your Bible.
Here's the relevant chronology from Gen 1:
1) God makes plants.
2) God makes birds and sea creatures.
3) God makes land animals.
4) God makes Adam and Eve at the same time.
And here's the relevant chronology from Gen 2:
1) God makes Adam.
2) God makes plants directly in the garden, and indirectly in the rest of the world by supplying water.
3) God makes all animals at once in an attempt to create a helpmeet for Adam.
4) God makes Eve from Adam's rib.
They're two different stories. Hell, if you'd bothered to read it, you'd see the part where the first story ends and the second rewinds and starts again:
quote:
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
It's like a DVD on autorepeat, ending and starting up again. "And they lived happily ever after. Beep! Once upon a time..."