Why does Genesis contradict itself, Like it was writting by 2 different authors??

Question

In my own reading I noticed Genesis seems like it was pasted from two different authors who didnt know the other said something different.

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GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.
GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

To curious:
I did read Genesis, it contradicts itself over and over....the question is why?

Answer 1

If you read them carefully, there is no conflict. As another responder says, it may have been written by two different authors, which would account for the different style of saying the same thing.

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.
The first refers to the creation of light and dark, the second refers to the creation of the sun. The sun could not have given off light if light had not already been created.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.
The first refers to the creation of trees. the second refers to the creation of the Garden of Eden, it does not say that He created ttrees, only that He made them grow out of the ground (planted them?).

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.
The first says that birds were created. GE 2:19 say that God HAD (past tense, doesnt say exactly when) created birds and brought them to the man to name.

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.
Same as with the birds.

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.
GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.
The first says they were both created on the sixth day. It doesnt say how or in which order. The second says that the woman was created from the rib of the man. It does not say that it was on a different day.

Answer 2

Modern textual critics posit that the first two chapters of Genesis are a composite of two different literary strands: the "Jehovist" (10th century BC), and the "Priestly" (7th century BC); and that the strands were compiled by an unknown redactor (but often suspected to be Ezra). One such scholar wrote, "The book of Genesis, like the other books of the Hexateuch, was not the production of one author. A definite plan may be traced in the book, but the structure of the work forbids us to consider it as the production of one writer." (Spurell xv). These strands were first identified by their different choice of the name of God.

The postulated source streams include:

Genesis 1:1 to 2:3, which exclusively uses the word Elohim to describe God, is ascribed to the Priestly source, which biblical critics believe to have used only Elohim until the revelation of the Name (in Exodus 6:3).
Genesis 2:4 to 2:24, which exclusively uses the words Yahweh Elohim to describe God, is ascribed to the Yahwist, who biblical critics believe used Yahweh exclusively.
Textual critics assert that the two passages tell the story of creation in different ways, and that there are inconsistencies between the two accounts. They conclude that the most probable explanation for the two inconsistent accounts is that a redactor combined the two independent creation stories into the final text which we have today. Bible defenders argue that the inconsistencies are apparent rather than real.

Answer 3

The truth is that the different titles applied to God in Genesis are used because of their meaning, revealing Jehovah in his different attributes, in his various works, and in his dealings with his people.

If the material attributed to each theoretical source is extricated portion by portion, and sentence by sentence, from the Genesis account and then reassembled, the result is a number of accounts each one of which by itself is illogical and incoherent. If we were to believe that these various sources were used and put together by a later compiler, we would be forced to believe that these incoherent accounts, before being amalgamated, were accepted as historical and were used for centuries by the nation of Israel. But what writer, especially a historian, would even construct such disconnected narratives, and if he did, what nation would accept them as a history of its people?
It is entirely possible that the expression “This is the history of” is simply an introductory phrase serving conveniently to divide off the various sections of the long overall history. Compare Matthew’s use of a similar expression to introduce his Gospel account.—Matthew 1:1

Answer 4

The thought should come to you that it cannot be contradicting itself because who would write a book and contradict itself from the beginning. It has to be your understanding and it is because people have been reading these passages for a long long time and they do not find any contradictions.

Please read the passages FROM THE BIBLE itself and see if there are any contradictions. The posting is SO TOTALLY WRONGLY quoted that I don't think it is worth commenting.

Answer 5

Because it was written by two different authors.

Answer 6

it truly is conversing approximately the two "religious death and actual" on the day of ingesting from the tree of the certainty of sturdy and undesirable, the 1st human couple died in God’s eyes and headed downward in the direction of their actual death. Adam joined Eve in breaking God’s regulation. by making use of grasping for what did no longer belong to them, they lost their wonderful freedom. Sin grew to alter into their grasp, and as God had warned, death ultimately observed. The inheritance they surpassed directly to their offspring replace into sin, show up in an inborn tendency in the direction of wrongdoing. Sin additionally extra weaknesses ensuing in affliction, getting older, and death. The inclination in the direction of wrongdoing, annoyed by making use of Satanic effect, produced a human society with a history of hatreds, crimes, oppression, and wars that have taken many thousands and thousands of lives. What a assessment to the liberty that God gave mankind on the beginning up! God had warned Adam and Eve that in the event that they have been disobedient and ate from the tree of the certainty of sturdy and undesirable, they could die “interior the day” of their ingesting. (Genesis 2:17) actual to his observe, God referred to as them to account on the very day of their sinning and mentioned the sentence of death. From God’s perspective, Adam and Eve died that day. to accomplish his purpose pertaining to to the earth, even however, Jehovah allowed them to offer a family contributors formerly they died bodily. however, considering the fact that God can view a million,000 years as sooner or later, while Adam’s life ended at 930 years, it replace into interior of one “day.” (2 Peter 3:8; Genesis 5:3-5) as a consequence God's truthfulness replace into upheld as to while punishment could be achieved, and his purpose for the earth replace into no longer thwarted by making use of their deaths.

Answer 7

gookyflavors is totally correct and curious has obviously never done any acedemic biblical study.