Its the first Chapter of Genesis where we see the Hebrew word - 'bara.'
Bara means to 'create.' It means to "create something out from nothing." That kind of creating can only spoken of God in that context.
Now... Chapter two begins with a summation of what took place in Chapter One. It begins by tellingl us that God rested
and ceased from anymore creating - 'bara.'
Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so
on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the
seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the
work of creating [bara] that he had done."
That says? No more creating from God before the Genesis Two account is given!
There were no two creation accounts.
First Chapter is about God creating [bara]. Second chapter is about the Lord utilizing what had already been created to make something out from it.
The body of Adam was not created - 'bara.' Instead, it was like what an artist does when making statue out from clay. In this case, the Lord breathed Adam's soul into this lump of clay which gave it animation.
Adam was not created 'bara' in Chapter Two.
Its was in Chapter One where we read that God created both "male and female" in His image. God is invisible. It was the male and female souls that God created 'out from nothing' in His Image!
Now... those souls created in Genesis 1:27 needed a body.
Guess what happened in Chapter Two? God did not create anything out from nothing like we see in Genesis One. For God rested from 'bara' on the seventh day.
Instead, the Lord took out from the earth what was needed and "molded and formed' (jatsar) a body for Adam.
Molded with what He extracted out from "the elements" of the earth. The same soil that had been created 'bara' out from nothing in Chapter One!
Without knowing what the Hebrew says? Interpretation becomes open season for creative writing class. Becoming a proverbial subjective food fight amongst God's children.
We need to know God's Word as it was written. Not only a translation that can too often leave us scratching our heads, yet making some sure of ourselves if they have a tendency to be naturally stubborn, argumentative, and opinionated by nature.
Bara = to create something out from nothing. To bring something into existence. (Gen 1)
Jatsar = to mold and form something out from something that has already been created! (Gen 2)
grace and peace!
grace and peace.......