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Because something was created unseen in Genesis One. That bodies were provided for in Genesis Two.

Google search it. The Hebrew word "nephesh" (soul) is written in reference to man and animals in the Bible.
In the Genesis 2 God did not provide bodies to the sea creature. which was created in the Genesis 1 and Adam did not gave name to any of sea creature.

Genesis 1:20-23 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
 
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Well you said this......


Its not a different approach to the same mystery. One excludes God.

And, the Genesis account is not an attempt to explain anything. If God has gotten you to the point that you know He is more real than this world? Then its not explaining, Its telling us what happened.

The Big Bang theory may be explaining the after effects of what God tells us He did.
 
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Since the creatures of water life were out of sight and below the surface there was no need to unveil the new creation to Adam or before angels to see who watched the whole event found in Genesis Two.
 
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Where did you get the definition for "bara" that it is "out of nothing"? It does mean to create; you're right about that. However, I'm not sure about the rest of your definition until you prove it from other similar passages in which it is used. I never wish to argue, but my Hebrew is a little rusty, since it's over four decades old!
 
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You can Google the following: in the qal stem bara means


One source I can recommend would be this scholar and pastor... R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries | Home

Taken from the book....
R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries — Creation, Chaos, and Restoration



Here's an excerpt...


In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1)

Elohim is the Hebrew word for God. The suffix im is the Hebrew plural, thus indicating the Trinity, the three coequal and coeternal Persons of the Godhead. This is God from the standpoint of essence, according to Deuteronomy 6:4 and 1 Timothy 2:5. All Members of the Godhead are identical in their essence; they have the same sovereignty, righteousness, justice, eternal life, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, love, immutability and veracity. They are coequal and coeternal! All three Members of the Godhead were involved in creation, although Jesus Christ, the Son, was the actual Executor of creation, according to John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16.

“In a beginning which was not a beginning, in eternity past, elohim created.” bara means “to create something out of nothing.” This is comparable to ex nihilo in the Latin. You must understand that only in the qal stem does bara means “to create out of nothing.” In the niphal stem, bara means “to cut, to carve, to polish”; and in the hiphil stem, it means “to feed, to make fat,” as it is used in reference to feeding animals.
Here is another source....
How Do We Know That God Created A Perfect Universe, Out Of Nothing, In Six Contiguous 24-Hour Days?
grace and peace......
 
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Since the creatures of water life were out of sight and below the surface there was no need to unveil the new creation to Adam or before angels to see who watched the whole event found in Genesis Two.
But if you read Genesis 1:24-28 in this passage twice written dominion over the fish of the sea. Once before the creation of man and then God's blessing for the male and female include dominion over the fish of the sea..... So the creature of water life can not be out of sight.

Genesis 1:24-28 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 
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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

God knew it eventually will be made known to man. God knowing the future knows what will be known. He knows what is coming next. He designed man with that purpose that man did not realize instantly after created.

God could have said... Let us make certain birds fly to warmer climates in the winter. Yet? If that was said by God in the spring? It was yet to be known by man, but not to God.
 
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First, there were originally no chapter divisions in Genesis or other books of the Bible - chapter headings were introduced much later, and there are many instances of chapter headings being put in the wrong place.


It’s clear from reading Genesis 1 and 2, that the first 3 verses in Ch. 2 belong at the end of Ch. 1, so that 2:4 should be the first verse of Ch. 2:


Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.


Those three misplaced verses in Ch. 2, make it obvious that God was finished with all of the creating process at the end of day six, which is why He rested on day 7.


And verse 2:4, which should be the start of the chapter, states that ch. 2 is a review, or overview, of creation.


To whit:


Gen 2:4 These arethe generations of the heavens and of the earth WHEN THEY WERE CREATED., in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,


When you exegete verse 4: the word GENERATIONS means a historical account in the Hebrew, and not a different creation account - which fact is reflected in other bible versions:


Gen 2:4 These are the records of how the heavens and the earth were created. On the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, (ISV)


Gen 2:4 These are the genealogical records of the heavens and the earth when they were created, at the time when Adonai Elohim made land and sky. (TLV)


Gen 2:4 These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens, (Darby)


The word translated GENERATIONS in KJV indeed means HISTORY:


H8435 (Strong)

תֹּלְדָה תּוֹלְדָה

tôledâh tôledâh

to-led-aw', to-led-aw'

From H3205; (plural only) descent, that is, family; (figuratively) history: - birth, generations.

Total KJV occurrences: 39


Thus there are not contradictory creation accounts in Genesis, but there is a creation account, followed by a review of it that emphasizes different aspects of creation, such as creation of Adam and Eve.
 
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Thus there are not contradictory creation accounts in Genesis, but there is a creation account, followed by a review of it that emphasizes different aspects of creation, such as creation of Adam and Eve.

To be found in the Hebrew.

Only in Genesis One do we find God "creating." In Genesis Two it begins by telling us at that point God rested from all "creating." The Hebrew word is - bara.

In Genesis Two the Lord does not "bara" the body for Adam's soul. The very soul he "created" [bara] in Genesis 1:27. Instead, the takes what was "created" in Genesis One (the earth) and molds and forms [jatsar] from it the body that the Lord is about to breath into its nostril sthe soul that was created in Genesis 1:27.


It can seem tricky at first. But, if one is informed and takes the time to study it, it begins to unfold and become easy to grasp.
 
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Disagree completely for reasons already given.
 
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What reasons? Where to be found?

Sounds like you need to run away.
Post #329.

Let’s cite scholarship:

In Genesis 1 there is a broad outline of the events of the creation week, which reaches its climax with the origin of mankind in the very image of God. In Genesis 2 there is the special emphasis upon man, the divine preparation of his home, the formation of a suitable mate, etc.

Edward J. Young has a good statement of this matter:

There are different emphases in the two chapters...but the reason for these is obvious. Chapter 1 continues the narrative of creation until the climax, namely, man made in the image and likeness of God. To prepare the way for the account of the fall, chapter 2 gives certain added details about man’s original condition, which would have been incongruous and out of place in the grand, declarative march of chapter 1 (1960, p. 53).

This type of procedure was not unknown in the literary methodology of antiquity. Gleason Archer observed that the “technique of recapitulation was widely practiced in ancient Semitic literature. The author would first introduce his account with a short statement summarizing the whole transaction, and then he would follow it up with a more detailed and circumstantial account when dealing with matters of special importance” (1964, p. 118). These respective sections have a different literary motif. Genesis 1 is chronological, revealing the sequential events of the creation week, whereas Genesis 2 is topical, with special concern for man and his environment. [This procedure is not unknown elsewhere in biblical literature. Matthew’s account of the ministry of Christ is more topical, while Mark’s record is more chronological.]

Second, there is clear evidence that Genesis 2 was never an independent creation account. There are simply too many crucial elements missing for that to have been the case. For instance, there is no mention in Genesis 2 of the creation of the Earth, and there is no reference to the oceans or fish. There is no allusion to the Sun, Moon, and stars, etc.

Archer has pointed out that there is not an origins record in the entire literature collection of the ancient Near East that omits discussing the creation of the Sun, Moon, seas, etc. (1982, p. 69). Obviously, Genesis 2 is a sequel to chapter 1. The latter presupposes the former and is built upon it.
 
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I am not the proposing two different creation accounts. What we see as Chapter One, and in Chapter Two, are all about the same creation unfolding in phases.

One thing you quoted was a bit weak and could be better translated to reveal the intent.

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Verse three is a bit skewed. It would read better as follows.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it
he rested from all the work of creating that he had done."
Gen 2:3

That is where we find the Hebrew word 'bara' being spoken of. It refers to God creating something out from nothing. Which God only performed throughout Chapter One.

Nothing in Chapter Two was created [bara] "out from nothing." Why? God rested from all his work of "bara.."

grace and peace.....
 
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That was opinion ..Very generalized at that... not exegesis. Even the Jehovah Witnesses have their "scholars."
 
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He is describing the creation of the earth from heaven. Then describing the creation of man in the garden which had different kinds of animals and trees than the rest of what was outside the garden. The garden was something wayy special and deffereny
 
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