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Leslie, all you have to do is to read Genesis to know how life was created!
Actually that life was created IS in question, because "created" implies that someone did the creating, while many people believe that live emerged without a concious act of creation.That life was created is not in question. How it was created is.
Actually that life was created IS in question, because "created" implies that someone did the creating, while many people believe that live emerged without a concious act of creation.
That is what I have heard also.........Aren't there two creation stories in genesis, with different orders of creation?
So.. which one do you believe is correct?That is what I have heard also.........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity. It is made up of two parts, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis.
In the first part (Genesis 1:1–2:3) Elohim, the Hebrew generic word for God, creates the heaven and the earth in six days, starting with darkness and light on the first day, and ending with the creation of mankind on the sixth day. God then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh day. In the second part (Genesis 2:4–2:24) God, now referred to by the personal name Yahweh, creates the first man from dust and breathes life into him. God then places him in the Garden of Eden and creates the first woman from his side as a companion.
A common hypothesis among modern scholars is that the first major comprehensive draft of the Pentateuch (the series of five books which begins with Genesis and ends with Deuteronomy) was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BC (the Jahwist source) and that this was later expanded by other authors (the Priestly source) into a work very like the one we have today.[7]
The two sources can be identified in the creation narrative: Genesis 1:1–2:3 is Priestly and Genesis 2:4–2:24 is Jahwistic.[8] Borrowing themes from Mesopotamian mythology, but adapting them to Israel's belief in one God,[9] the combined narrative is a critique of the Mesopotamian theology of creation: Genesis affirms monotheism and denies polytheism.[10] Robert Alter described the combined narrative as "compelling in its archetypal character, its adaptation of myth to monotheistic ends".................
- See more at:
http://biologos.org/blogs/archive/israels-two-creation-stories-part-1/#sthash.iNsdZuoZ.dpuf
The two stories depict two different primordial scenes.
Genesis 1 begins with pre-existent chaotic matter—darkness and a watery deep—that is about to be “tamed” by God during the six-day sequence. The spirit of God hovers over the deep, and begins the creation sequence by first making light (1:3-5) and then dividing the waters (1:6-10). Genesis 1 shows how God makes habitable what is uninhabitable.
Genesis 2 depicts a similar transition from inhabitable to habitable, but it does not describe the primordial state in the same way. Instead, we find ourselves in a land that is not yet fully habitable. There are streams watering the earth. The presenting problem is not chaos but absence of plant life because there was neither rain nor anyone to work the land.
The setting of the scene for creation is different in these two accounts.
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You will also find the answer to your question in Genesis.
Yes, there are. The first, is were God creates man. The second, God is telling us how He created us. In other words He tells us that He created man, then what He done to create us. A short version, and then the long version.Aren't there two creation stories in genesis, with different orders of creation?
Then you have not looked too hard.
If you really think that this is the only difference, I find it doubtfull that you have ever read genesis, yourself.Yes, there are. The first, is were God creates man. The second, God is telling us how He created us. In other words He tells us that He created man, then what He done to create us. A short version, and then the long version.
Speaking of having read it, how many times did God place Adam into the garden in chapter two?If you really think that this is the only difference, I find it doubtfull that you have ever read genesis, yourself.
And I was so hoping it was a cleaver bit of word play, agnore as a reference to agnostic. Of course I know better, one should never expect something cleaver from certain groups.
There are a lot of things on here that you have a hard problem figuring out! Ask God for wisdom and understanding.
Wasn't the ADAM created in Eden before YAHWEH planted the garden east of it?Speaking of having read it, how many times did God place Adam into the garden in chapter two?
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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.
Warden is a deist:There are a lot of things on here that you have a hard problem figuring out! Ask God for wisdom and understanding.
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