Dear Sayre, Genesis 2:4-7 tells us that man was "formed of the dust of the ground" on the
3rd Day
BEFORE plants, rain, and the first Stars of our Cosmos, which were not formed until the
4th Day. Genesis 1:16. Are you calling God a Liar? Where were you when the first light came forth into our Universe, some 13 billion years ago? Adam was made
BEFORE that. I am sorry you didn't know that. God Bless you.
Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 contradict each other if you read them as literal scientific creation stories (yes, plural, there are two).
Dear Sayre, Then you must believe that God made an error when He authored the first two chapters of the Bible? It's your interpretation which is incorrect. Here is the sequence:
Genesis chapter 1 is the complete
History of God's 6 Days, including future events at the end of the present 6th Day
The first 3 verses of Genesis 2 speaks of a future time when
ALL the host of heaven, which includes humans, are in heaven.
At Genesis 2:4, we are taken
BACK to the 3rd Day, the Day the Earth was made, and additional details are shown. This is
TRUE throughout the rest of the Bible since Scripture shows us
DETAILS of the 7 Days of God's Creation written in the first 34 verses of God's Holy Word.
We live today at Genesis 1:27 since God is
STILL creating mankind (Adam) in His Image or in Christ. We will not advance to the Prophecy of Genesis 1:28-31 until
AFTER Jesus returns to this Earth. Isaiah 11
In fact, I don't even read them as creation stories. I think they are theodicies. They are there to teach spiritual truths, not to draw conclusions about the biological history of mankind. Man fell, God will redeem... that is the message of Genesis 1 and 2.
Sorry, but God's Holy Word is the Literal Truth. Viewing Scripture as allegory or fiction is UnBelief.
Science reveals His handiwork... and what you are saying is so totally and utterly in conflict with science that I don't even know where to start with a refutation.
God's Word agrees in
EVERY way with
EVERY discovery of Science and History
IF you have the proper interpretation.
How do you think Adam survived for 13 billion years? And on what planet was he on for those first 13 billion years? What planet are you on?
You must remember that Adam was made in the likeness of God, which is Jesus. Adam was like we will be in Heaven until he sinned. He lived in a perfect body surrounded by a Shekinah Glory or Brightness, which was exactly like that of YHWH/Jesus.
Since Today remains the 6th Creative Day and Adam was made the 3rd Day, just
AFTER the Big Bang of our Cosmos, Adam lived for some 13 Billion years
BEFORE Eve was made on the present 6th Day, as I posted. This shows that each of God's Days or Ages is some 4.5 Billion years in length in man's time. God Bless you.
Adam's world was totally dissolved in the Flood. We live today in the 2nd Universe or Heaven, which will be burned. We live on Planet Earth, which is the 3rd Rock from the Sun. Peter speaks of the world (Kosmos) that
THEN WAS, being overflowed with water and it perishied. (Greek, destroyed, totally) ll Peter 3:3-7 God Bless you.
In Love,
Aman