And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image.... So God created man in his own image. [Genesis 1:25-27]
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And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. [Genesis 2:18-19]
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So what came first, man or beast?
2007-02-19 20:27:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
careful with this one. The true christians accept the bible as a guide, not as fact. However the fundies will get very annoyed with you for pointing out such contradictions. They will send some of their vitriolic hatred in your direction soon.
Atheism. You know it makes sense.
2007-02-19 20:31:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Only the first chapter was written to be taken as a factual, chronological order of creation.
Genesis 2-3 is a story with a number of expressive elements. It was written with moral lessons in mind, not to be taken literally in every detail.
For example, there are moral lessons in the bonding of Adam and Eve, there's an attempt to explain why women have one less rib, there's a moral lesson in the temptation, and there's an attempt to explain why "Eden" no longer gets rainfall.
(Most don't realize that Eden was a real place. It was mentioned over 200 times by name in Sumerian texts dating from about 2500-2000. The land named "Eden" or "Edin" was located in a grassland where the Tigris and Euphrates come together, and the name roughly translates "house of life" or "house of wine". I've given a link below to a database of about 175,000 clay tablets with a search engine. This is where the texts are documented. The second link is to the Sumerian lexicon used by UCLA. You can look up the two syllables that form the word: "e" and "den".)
2007-02-20 04:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen.1:1,2; All exist.
Job 38:30-32 [ space ]; 4-7 [ Angels see earth prpeared ];
John 17:3,5,24; Col.1:15-17; Rev.3:12,14; Jesus was with God, before all and before the world, Jesus first creation created in the image of God.
Gen.1:3-35;
Light and dark and land and water placement, then plant life and times and seasons that applies to man's time, then whales, fowl and all sort of creeping thing and animals,
then what we know as domestic animals. Gen.1:26; God said,"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
2007-02-20 05:32:01 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1 gives the order of creation.
Genesis 2 tells the specifics of what happened in the garden of eden on the 6th day. god formed representative animals and brought them to Adam for a naming ceremony - but they were already created in abundance upon the earth. God just made more and presented them to Adam.
no contradiction.
god bless
2007-02-20 04:36:09 · answer #4 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beast - man was created last. I am amazed that anyone would think this constitutes a contradiction! God is simply repeating Himself in summery form to emphasis different parts of the same story. If you read it from the beginning it is SO clear that he even puts in "and the evening and the morning were the (next) day" with what was created on each of those days.
2007-02-20 04:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beasts of the earth, the fish of the waters,and the fowl of the air,were created before man.
2007-02-20 04:37:47 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another simple explanation. All the animals came first, and then in the second instance God brought the animals up so they could receive their names. And again, you probably don't even believe anything in the Mosaic account, so why even bother picking at these details?
2007-02-20 04:41:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beasts first, as it was not until the fifth or sixth day that God created people.
2007-02-20 04:33:02 · answer #8 · answered by Lady_Lawyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beast then man but man was alone because non of the animals were suitable helpers for adam so then god created eve to be his helper
2007-02-20 04:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by noot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir, judging by the content of your recent questions, you have apparently found a list of so-called biblical contradictions and think these are all unresolved issues.
Please review the lists at the two sites below.
2007-02-20 04:35:47 · answer #10 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋