How come Genesis 2.7 doesn't say which day God created Adam?

Question

7 the LORD God formed the man [e] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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How come it doesn't say this is day 6? Is the creation of Adam seperate from the Genesis chapter 1:26&27

Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

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Answer 1

Chapter one was a summary and Chapter two sorta gets more into the details. Since it was already in Chapter one, it wasn't needed in Chapter two as the timeline was not the focus, but rather some specifics of what occured in Chapter one.

Answer 2

Genesis 1:23 ends the fifth day. Genesis 1:31 ends the sixth day. Man was created between those verse on that sixth day.

The original creation story started as an oral tradition. To preserve the story and protect it against error, Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 were in the form of a poem. That way any changes in the story would be obvious, and it is easier to remember (That is why Shakespeare wrote all his plays in poetry form - it is easier to remember and get right.)

Having completed the poem, with 2:4 the writer goes back to retell the story in greater detail. This is a very common device in early literature. You will find it repeated numerous times through the Old Testament. The details of a story are quickly stated and then it is retold in detail. Makes it easier to understand. You will see the same technique used everyday in journalism. You state the story in the first paragraph, and then go back and give the details.

So the two accounts of creation are simply writing techniques used to keep the 1) details accurate and 2) understandable.

Answer 3

The way i read it (and I may be wrong) sounds like he created mankind then later Adam was created then he took Eve out of him. I started studying this after a guy ask me why God condemns incest but the only ones that Adam an Eve's offspring had to be with were there own siblings. I think that there is a lot left to find out about that happened in the beginning. Also who was God talking to when he said "let us" was he talking to the Angels, Jesus, Holy Spirit, or what. I have wondered if he was talking to the earth because that would explain a lot of things that would ease the minds of evolutionist. If you read before he just got through letting the land and the waters bring forth things. If you think about it we kind of are in the image of both (us) we have a spirit that is like God's and a body that is made up of the earth. We are about the same water content as the earth and the salt levels of our body fluids are the same as the earths oceans (so I've heard)

Answer 4

Gen. 1:26-31 states Adam and Eve were both created on the 6th day.

The purpose of Gen. 2:4-7 is to summarize God's work. In Gen. 2:4-6, He summarizes how Adam was created. God did not feel there was a need to reiterate what He stated in Gen. 1:26-31.

Answer 5

What Gen. 2:7 does, is tell you what a Soul is, although not many people wants to believe it.

According to The Dictionary of Bible and Religion, it “usually refers to the entire living being, to the whole individual.” This is borne out by the Bible’s description of the soul at Genesis 2:7: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” Note that the first man “came to be” a soul. That is to say, Adam did not have a soul; he was a soul—just as someone who becomes a doctor is a doctor. The word “soul,” then, here describes the whole person.

The word translated “soul” (psy·khe′) appears more than a hundred times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Like ne′phesh this word often refers to the whole person. For example, consider the following statements: “My soul is troubled.” (John 12:27) “Fear began to fall upon every soul.” (Acts 2:43) “Let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities.” (Romans 13:1) “Speak consolingly to the depressed souls.” (1 Thessalonians 5:14) “A few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.” (1 Peter 3:20) Clearly, psy·khe′, like ne′phesh, refers to the whole person.

Interestingly, in the Bible the word “soul” applies not only to humans but also to animals. For example, in describing the creation of sea creatures, Genesis 1:20 says that God commanded: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls.” And on the next creative day, God said: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.”—Genesis 1:24

Thus, the word “soul” as used in the Bible refers to a person or an animal or to the life that a person or an animal enjoys. The Bible’s definition of the soul is simple, consistent, and unencumbered by the complicated philosophies and superstitions of men.

In the movie "Titanic" the Captain asks the 1st Officer, How many persons on board? 1st Officer says "2300 souls on board, sir." Did He mean 2300 immortal souls were on board, no, he was telling the Captain, there are 2300 persons on board. In the movie, they used the correct meaning of the word.

Answer 6

Why is it even relevant upon which day man was created? We are here and we were made supreme beings on this planet so ordained by God when he took Adam aside one day and said that He gave Adam DOMINION over all the earth! The day we were created on is irrelevant because we exist and are still a thriving, vibrant, and intelligent species (for the most part) here with the potential to be more than we are through obedience of God's Word.

Answer 7

a million) do not erroneously make the concept Adam and Eve had no daughters after making Cain and Abel. (Genesis 5:4) 2) do not assume that the Genesis account (or certainly each and every thing contained in the Bible) is written in strict chronological order. 3) Absence of knowledge, isn't data of absence. The Bible does not provide all records surrounding the existence of Adam and Eve and all their toddlers. the very incontrovertible actuality that no daughters are said through brand, or said as being born after the births of Cain and Abel and previously Cain's sin, isn't data that there have been none. 4) examine your Bible intently with an open options: "And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth got here to be 8 hundred years. in the interim he grew to develop into father to little kids." (Genesis 5:4) "After this Adam said as his spouse’s call Eve, because she had to develop into the mum OF all and diverse residing." (Genesis 3:20)

Answer 8

It is important to remember that, culturally, Jewish people at that time did not necessarily write things down in chronological order. The correct answer to your question is that Genesis Chapter one is an overview of creation, by day. Chapter two of Genesis merely sheds more light and gives more details of what happened on the 6th day of creation, as outlined in chapter 1.

Answer 9

It is the next day in succession day 8.It is an account of a separate creation of Adam after the creation of Man as a species.

Answer 10

christian identity teaches that the first man and adam were not the same person. the bible says that one was created (made from nothing) and the other was formed from the dust of the earth. they teach alot more indepth than that,but i hope it helps.