THE TWO GENESIS CREATION ACCOUNTS

Genesis 1:1 says, “initially, God made the heavens and later the Earth.” Later, in Genesis 2:4, it appears that a moment, changed story of creation starts. The possibility of two contrasting creation accounts is a typical confusion of these two entries which, truth be told, depict a similar creation occasion. They don’t differ with regards to the request in which things were made and don’t negate each other. Genesis chapter 1 portrays the “six days of creation” (and a seventh day of rest), Genesis 2 covers just a single day of that creation week—the 6th day—and there is no logical inconsistency.

In Genesis chapter 2, the Creator ventures back in the transient arrangement to the 6th day, when God made man. In the primary section, the Creator of Genesis exhibits the production of man on the 6th day as the finish or high purpose of creation. At that point, in the second part, the Creator gives more noteworthy insight with respect to the formation of man.

There are two essential cases of inconsistencies between Genesis chapters 1-2. The first is with respect to vegetation. Genesis 1:11 records God making vegetation on the third day. Genesis 2:5 states that preceding the production of man “no bush of the field had yet showed up on the earth and no plant of the field had yet jumped up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to till the fields.” So, which is it? Did God make vegetation on the third day before He made man (Genesis 1), or after He made man (Genesis 2)? The Hebrew words for “vegetation” are distinctive in the two entries. Genesis 1:11 uses a term that alludes to vegetation by and large. Genesis 2:5 uses a more particular term that alludes to vegetation that requires agribusiness, i.e., a man to tend it, a cultivator. The sections don’t repudiate. Genesis 1:11 discusses God making vegetation, and Genesis 2:5 talks about God not causing “farmable” vegetation to develop until after He made man.

The second chapter guaranteed logical inconsistency is with respect to creature life. Genesis 1:24-25 records God making creature life on the 6th day, before He made man. Genesis 2:19, in a few interpretations, appears to record God making the creatures after He had made man. Nonetheless, a great and conceivable interpretation of Genesis 2:19-20 peruses, “Now the LORD God had framed out of the ground every one of the mammoths of the field and every one of the winged animals of the air. He conveyed them to the man to perceive what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living animal, that was its name. So the man offered names to all the domesticated animals, the winged animals of the air and every one of the mammoths of the field.” The content does not state that God made man, at that point made the creatures, and afterward conveyed the creatures to the man. Or maybe, the content says, “Now the LORD God had [already] made every one of the creatures.” There is no inconsistency. On the 6th day, God made the creatures, at that

point made man, and afterward conveyed the creatures to the man, enabling the man to name the creatures.

Finally, by considering the two creation accounts separately and afterward accommodating them, we see that God depicts the grouping of creation in Genesis 1, at that point clears up its most vital subtle elements, particularly of the 6th day, in Genesis 2. There is no logical inconsistency here, simply a typical artistic gadget depicting an occasion from the general to the particular.

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