A single creation account

[Ark Guy]

Male and female equals mankind...notice the animals were created before mankind in both instances.


There is no reason for God to say..lets complete mankind. That detail was not required in the seven day overview.
The second account fills in the account presented in the first chapter.

The contradiction is in your mind.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

I give up. It's as plain as day.

 

[Vance]

"This is a feasable answer to the apparent contradiction."

So much for a plain reading. when you have to start developing feasible answers to apparent contradictions, you are no longer just accepting the plain, simple reading of the text.

Yes, that is a way of reconciling the two. But, in doing so, you forfeit any claim to simple, plain reading. Your interpretive process is fully involved to come up with a reading which is NOT the plain reading.

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

The accounts only disagree with each other because you support evolutionISM and you need them to disagree.

No matter what is preseneted to you, you will not be convinced.

You forget that the first story is an overview while the second story is a more detailed account.

When I read them literally, I see no way of reconciling them without abandoning the literal reading. When I abandon the literal reading, they make sense because they are no longer to retain complete historical and chronological accuracy.

When put together we get a more complete account of the single event. Animals were created prior to mankind was completed...this is what the text simply says.

I still stick by the opinion that mankind was not finished untill Eve was created from Adams side. This is a feasable answer to the apparent contradiction.

I am not talking about when mankind's creation was finished. I am talking about when mankind's creation was began. God creates the animals in Genesis 1: 24-25. God begins the creation mankind in Genesis 1: 26-27, after He created the animals.

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

Male and female equals mankind...notice the animals were created before mankind in both instances.


There is no reason for God to say..lets complete mankind. That detail was not required in the seven day overview.
The second account fills in the account presented in the first chapter.

The contradiction is in your mind.

Male and female equals man and woman, both of which are created after the animals.