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Genesis Creation Stories: Sequence Contradictions?

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Coragyps
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Message 46 of 124 (156667)
11-06-2004 1:36 PM 		Reply to: Message 45 by Davidjay
11-06-2004 1:21 PM

Adam was in charge of naming the animals that were there BEFORE HIM,
I will make him an help meet for him.
No conflict there at all, as long as you don't read what's written there, at least.
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Message 49 of 124 (156692)
11-06-2004 3:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 47 by dpardo
11-06-2004 3:00 PM

The conflict is when the proponents of "contradicting accounts" try to reconcile that the author would contradict himself in the very next chapter.
Only a fundamentalist minority even pretend that there's one author of the Pentateuch. It's a collection of stories. Folktales.
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Coragyps
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Message 52 of 124 (156701)
11-06-2004 4:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 50 by dpardo
11-06-2004 3:56 PM

The help meet he is referring to is Eve.
Read the text:
Gen 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Eve was found to be an help meet after the sheep, etc. proved unsuitable. Just read the book, dpardo.
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Coragyps
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Message 53 of 124 (156703)
11-06-2004 4:13 PM 		Reply to: Message 51 by dpardo
11-06-2004 3:58 PM

May I see your evidence for this assertion?
The texts themselves are pretty decent evidence - they read just like the folktales of any other culture you'd care to name. They're equally supported by geological, archaeological, or biological evidence as, say, Maori or Norse creation stories, which is to say, not at all.
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Message 90 of 124 (156934)
11-07-2004 10:31 AM 		Reply to: Message 88 by dpardo
11-07-2004 10:24 AM

Dpardo - when do you think the division into chapters was done on the Bible? What does it say in Genesis 2:4?
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Read your book, man, before you start pontificating on what it means.
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