Or are you going to do as I predicted and resort to "mental gymnastics to explain how they actually agree completely"?
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hope you are having a great day... ITS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Anways, I love this terminology mental agility or mental excercises, however it does seems to be a form of ridicule. I assume you suggest that i will give an explanation that will leave you discombobulated.
My mother uses that word alot, God bless her.
no fear, nothing too hard here to grasp.
Genesis 1 which says God created all the animals first, and then created man and woman at the same time afterwards,
Yes Iam familiar with the Genesis. It is one of my favourite books, if not my favourite. I very much like the Book of Romans, The Gospel of John and the Book of Isaiah as well.
The Bible is a good read and it can be quite fun. There is alot of detective work.
Lets move forward, ill hightlight the main scriptures concerned.
1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
You are correct the chronological order is animals then Humans. Lets see what happens next.
1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2:1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
And there... the whole of creation was finished. The chronological order of creation is done! The last things God did was create animals, create men and have a well deserved rest. My compliments to the Artist.
Now lets go a little bit further. Man i love Genesis!
2:5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
So even though God created these plants and every living thing, it does not say that the earth was populated by such things yet. We have a creation of men, on earth going forth and multiplying so far. Adam and eve were immortal until the fall of Adam. These men could be immortal until the fall.
Or is the beginning of chapter 2 the start of adam and eve, and the garden of eden. The verse says there is no man to tend the ground. The ground could elude to the place where adam was.
Lets move on shall we
6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Here is where it gets interesting. Are we following a chronological order or are we revisiting the 6th day?
You are following a chronological, we want to be literal?
Chapter 2 suggests we have entered the origin for the garden of eden. It would appear that adam was a creation different to the 6th day creation.
We have finished placing the jewel (earth) in its setting and have completed the final touches. Ps it may seem the earth was not created during these 7 days of creation.
Which order do you subscribe to the chronological order or an order that goes in different directions - ie incontext to the verses you mention - is chapter 2 a recap or the next step?
and then there's Genesis 2, which says that God created man, then he created animals to be a helper to him, but they didn't work out, so God made woman from his rib.
Now we look at genesis 2:19.
Genesis 2:19
Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Have you considered that the statement "Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky." Is merely suggesting "now you remember those animals God created, well God brings them to Adam to name them before putting them on the earth".
Remember no plants, no rain until the mist came. These animals were created but not implemented yet.
So was it:
Animals, then man and woman together?
Man, animals, and then woman afterwards?
Is it 1 or is it 2?
Well lets reason together kylie, you and i on the case, we cannot fail.
What u think about my post? We will need some back and forth i think?
Cheers. I really love where our conversation is going.
