How will you refute the contradictions in the Bible especially the contradiction in Gen. 1 and 2?

Question

Contradictions are obvious in the Bible especially the sequence of the creation. Genesis chapter 1 tells us that man came after everything else but in chapter 2 it tells us God saw that man should not be alone so He made animals to be with Adam and after it Eve. Well then its obvious that Gen. 2 tells us man came before animals. But hey guys Gen. 1 tells us man came after everything.


If no one can refute the contradiction then the Creation Theory is not that strong to support how we are created.

Answer 1

If you pay attention in the Bible
Each Chapter, tends to go back and rephrase what has already been said. But it tends to give you a better insight each time.

you take the Bible line upon line, verse upon verse
read in between the lines
not face value

Answer 2

No. That is wrong. I just read over these chapters and they are not saying what you have said. The order of creation is in chapter one. Chapter two is giving you what happened in more detail. Chapter 2 verse 19 says, " 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..... Read this verse carefully along with verse 20. Its not saying that God then made the Animals after Adam because that was already done. The first phrase is just repeating what He had already done. It's not saying that He created the animals after Adam.

Answer 3

There is no contradiction; Gen. 2 doesn't tell what order things happened in, it just says things happened. Creation is not a theory. Science cannot explain how a living cell originated or even how an eye evolved; yes I have read their explanation and it leaves a lot unexplained.
I don't think you need to "read between the lines" in the Bible, just use a little common sense. Chapter 2 of Genesis is very obviously a summary.

Answer 4

All religions that have a holy book rely on that holy book for the truth --- about anything and everything. (The bible is just the history of the stories of one tribe of Israel, written by starving shepherds in the middle east beginning more than 2000 years ago. It has been changed, copied, added to, subtracted from as people made it to suit their image. It has been translated from Aramaic, to Greek to Latin, to Demotic, into Hieroglyphics, back to Demotic, into vernacular languages, and as it stand now, doesn't much resemble much of anything..... Now, get rid of the holy book you are quoting from, and bingo, you have nothing... nothing but your brain, and proof of those theorems that any one can prove by science and evolution. And we know evolution is true, and always changing because we can prove it.... and there are too many books for me to even begin. And when some little piece is found to be incorrect, all science changes that part. Science is flexible -- with an open attitude of "all you gotta do is show me, prove it to me....".... But the holy books?? OMG. they are written in stone.

Too bad your parents taught you WHAT to think rather than HOW to think.....

"In every village there is a torch -- the teacher, and an extinguisher -- the clergy"
Victor Hugo

And if you wish to broaden your horizon, read The God Delusion.... but only if you are smart, have at least a year or two of college, and read well. Otherwise, you'd be wasting your $$$. It is number 8 this week on the NY times Best Seller list.

Answer 5

Look at Genesis chapter 1 : 27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The words for: man, image, and them are particular words in Hebrew.
This means a multiple creation such as many or many different.
This translates more accurately to "mankind"
Image translates closely in one word to "reflection".
"Them" again states the plural form.
With Genesis chapter 2 the bible begins to teach that God "formed" a man, not created. This is a different word to separate it from the creation of "mankind".
The brief explanation is that Adam of Chapter 2 - in Hebrew is: "this very man".
This is different than the man of chapter one. It is a specific forming of a man (genetic structure - family) with which Christ would come through.
The bible is about this family and more. From the first Adam (Genesis) to the last Adam (Jesus)
The bible does teach of multiple creation of mankind and this is backed up elsewhere. The above is the short version.
Hebrew is very complex, yet simple and deep.
simple stuff
The animals of the "wild" are explained in Chapter 1
The animals for "domestication" by "the very Adam" are in Chapter 2.
This is explained through out the bible and the treatise would take a book in and of itself.

Answer 6

There is no contradiction, people read with a programmed mind, I read with a open mind.There are indeed two creations,God said lets us make man in our image,males and females,etc.He filled the earth and saw it was good.much
much later,after God planted the Garden , there was not a man to til the soil, so he then forms Adam from the dust of the ground, and this is the only time in Genesis God does not say it was good.We are not in Gods image, we are descendants of Adam,read further when Cain kills Abel God puts a protective mark on Him and if any one harms Him it will be done to them seven-fold.Who do you think they are.

Answer 7

A 'contradiction' is while one verse contradicts yet another. those are all over the Bible, as you have shown us. A 'authentic contradiction' is one that Christians will no longer be able to make an excuse for...and that they are extremely good at making excuses that fulfill themselves. those might all be accepted previous contradictions. I have not any want to make excuses for them, which you would be able to me they're 'authentic contradictions'. whether 'God' is unchangeable isn't the question. The question is whether or no longer the writers of the Bible have been able to being completely consistent of their descriptions of a character of their tale e book -- the respond isn't any...in the event that they have been, we does not might desire to make the above differences.

Answer 8

Yes, Man came after everything else. But Man was given dominion over the animals.

Answer 9

Genesis 2:23-

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.

This explains that the making of man was not finished until Eve was created out of man "and GOD saw that it was good".

Answer 10

i think you make the same mistake as the christians - taking the bible stories in genesis literally.

biblical scholarship, especially analysis of the style and language of the text, has long since demonstrated that there are two different traditions, two different writings, that were merged to become the genesis we know today.

i like to call them 'yahwist' and 'elohist' because one calls god by the tetragrammaton YHWH and the other calls god 'elohim' - the hebrew word for 'gods', which is interesting in itself.

so, yes the two contradict in places because they focus on different things. one focuses on the temple in jerusalem, the other focuses on the northern israel sites like bethel.

i agree with you anyway, being an atheist myself, but you can't just be simplistic in how you deal with the biblical texts. you have to know them in more detail, so the full meaning can be brought into focus, not just dismiss them after scanning the surface.

vale to you