Two Creation Accounts or One?

[AV1611VET]

Some say Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 show two contradictory creation accounts.

I say there is only one creation account, and Genesis 2 is a Frame story.

In my opinion, those who believe there are two creation accounts do so out of either ignorance, or a desire to discredit creationism that is so strong the Truth can't be seen.

What say you?

Pay especial attention to two verses in Genesis 2:

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

How many times does Genesis 2 say God put Adam into the Garden?

 

[JackRT]

Three actually.

 

[Everybodyknows]

Three actually.

Really? Please elaborate.

 

[John Hyperspace]

Not two creation of everything accounts; but two accounts of creation: first everything outside(dominion) then everything inside(sanctuary).

 

[JackRT]

There is a third in Proverbs 8 but many bible scholars consider Psalms 104 and Job 38 as mini-creation stories as well. All are informative in their own way.

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

Some say Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 show two contradictory creation accounts.

I say there is only one creation account, and Genesis 2 is a Frame story.

In my opinion, those who believe there are two creation accounts do so out of either ignorance, or a desire to discredit creationism that is so strong the Truth can't be seen.

What say you?

Pay especial attention to two verses in Genesis 2:

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

How many times does Genesis 2 say God put Adam into the Garden?

There is another creation account, written in the stars, the rocks, and the genomes. No hand of man placed that information there; we have gradually learned to read it. It is true, you can trust it. All interpretations of the Bible that are at variance with what God reveals to us in the stars, the rocks and the genomes fail to attain the literal truth.

 

[Aryeh]

Some say Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 show two contradictory creation accounts.

I say there is only one creation account, and Genesis 2 is a Frame story.

In my opinion, those who believe there are two creation accounts do so out of either ignorance, or a desire to discredit creationism that is so strong the Truth can't be seen.

What say you?

Pay especial attention to two verses in Genesis 2:

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

How many times does Genesis 2 say God put Adam into the Garden?

Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 2:e is the "quick overview of the entirety of creation."

Genesis 2:4 until the end of the world is the ACTUAL story.

Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 2:3 would be like the rolling intro text screen of a Star Wars film. Genesis 2:4 onward is the actual movie. .

 

[St_Worm2]

Some say Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 show two contradictory creation accounts.

I say there is only one creation account, and Genesis 2 is a Frame story.

In my opinion, those who believe there are two creation accounts do so out of either ignorance, or a desire to discredit creationism that is so strong the Truth can't be seen.

What say you?

Pay especial attention to two verses in Genesis 2:

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

How many times does Genesis 2 say God put Adam into the Garden?

Genesis 1 concerns the Creation in general, and Genesis 2, the Creation of man specifically, so I believe it's appropriate to think of Genesis 2 as a "frame story"

Genesis 1 does not contradict Genesis 2

 

[AV1611VET]

There is a third in Proverbs 8 but many bible scholars consider Psalms 104 and Job 38 as mini-creation stories as well.

There is another creation account, written in the stars, the rocks, and the genomes.

If at all possible, could we please discuss Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 only?

Thank you!

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Chapter 1 is a broad overview of the creation of the world.

Chapter 2 is a close-up of what happened in the Garden of Eden.

 

[HitchSlap]

G1/2 are thought to be written by two seperate authors approximately 2-300 years in between them. The style of the earliest existing copies are completely different, and no scholar would make the mistake of assuming the same author. Why would the same author write two separate accounts anyway, with slight contradictions.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

The first 5 books of the bible were written by Moses.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

As strange as this sounds, I agree - more or less - with HitchSlap.

I've heard several different explanations by several different Bible expositors with several different takes on the subject.

After some years of study and prayer, here's my take:

They are two different accounts of the same set of events by two different people and two different points of view. ("View" is used in the idiomatic sense, no human 'saw' Creation literally.)

The two accounts do not contradict each other, any more than two eye-witness accounts of the same incident 'contradict' each other (presuming both are telling the truth). One may see things the other didn't, depending on vantage and intellectual background, but it is the same event.

Please note, this also occurs in scripture in the Old Testament books of 1st and 2nd Kings and 1st and 2nd Chronicles. The same era of history is told - the Kingdom of David and Solomon, and the divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah - but by different sets of recorders. For instance, Chronicles relates Solomon's reign as King of Israel, but omits the incident of the two women and the baby. Both accounts agree Solomon was David's son by Bathsheba and Solomon was King.

Not agreeing fully with HitchSlap, I have no idea where the two to three hundred year difference derives, but I don't see as it makes any difference, either.

 

[AV1611VET]

G1/2 are thought to be written by two seperate authors approximately 2-300 years in between them.

For the sake of this reading comprehension challenge, I don't care if Humpty Dumpty wrote Genesis 1, and Bugs Bunny wrote Genesis 2 a thousand or three years later.

The point is they don't contradict each other.

One supplements the other.

 

[HitchSlap]

The first 5 books of the bible were written by Moses.

Texts of Genesis: J, E, and P

 

[HitchSlap]

For the sake of this reading comprehension challenge, I don't care if Humpty Dumpty wrote Genesis 1, and Bugs Bunny wrote Genesis 2 a thousand or three years later.

The point is they don't contradict each other.

One supplements the other.

But they do contradict each other.

 

[AV1611VET]

Not agreeing fully with HitchSlap, I have no idea where the two to three hundred year difference derives, but I don't see as it makes any difference, either.

I believe Adam wrote Genesis 1 and 2.

And since Adam lived for 950 years, he could very well have written it two to three hundred years later.

I don't think so, but this is more a reading comprehension test, than it is a discussion about penmanship.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Texts of Genesis: J, E, and P

That's a made up theory.

 

[AV1611VET]

But they do contradict each other.

Your opinion is noted.

 

[HitchSlap]

That's a made up theory.

Source?