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Author Topic:   Genesis 1 and 2: The Difference Between Created and Formed
ReformedRob
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Message 210 of 210 (344124)
08-28-2006 1:01 AM


eisogesis v exogesis
There is no contradiction of Genesis 1 & 2. Genesis 1 details the week of creation including the timeline. Genesis 2 is not a timeline but simply what happened on day 6. As was correctly pointed out earlier this follows writing style of the time of writing. An overview then the details. If one looks up the original words in Hebrew there is no significant difference between the words formed and created and the context says the animals in Genesis 2:19 were formed from the dust of the earth paralelling Genesis one which says the same thing.
There is only a contradiction if one reads into Genesis 2 a timeline which is not given as it is in Genesis 1. That's eisogesis and it is flawed. Genesis 2 gives the details but not in a chronological order but merely states God created/formed the animals and brought them to Adam to be named. It does not say that Adam was created first THEN the animals were brought to him for naming but only says God formed the animals AND brought them to Adam. So there is no contradiction and the point is the creation of a mate for Adam and the story flows accordingly. So what one is left with is on the Sixth day the animals were created then Adam then the animals were brought to Adam to be named...no suitable mate for Adam was found then eve was made for Adam. No contradiction unless one reads into the text that the point is a chronology instead of the making of a mate for Adam.

"...but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables"

  
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