Can anyone explain why, in the first chapter of Genesis, God creates both Adam and Eve. But then in the second chapter God creates Eve from Adams rib?
I'm a little perplexed by this.
2007-04-21 03:10:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I like the answers so far. But let me pose this to you. Lets bear in mind that the Catholic church edited the Bible to a great degree before it was stamped "official". Why wouldn't they take the time to clarify this confusing editing problem. Moreover, if more than one person wrote Genesis, who were they?
2007-04-21 03:20:15 · update #1
Hi,
One the 6th day, God created (in the flesh - the souls were created long before this)
all the races, the ethnos.
Then on the 8th day, God created Adam to
tend the garden, and Eve was formed (the manuscripts say a "curve" was taken from Adam to form Eve, not a "rib")to be his
wife.
Thousands of people existed from the 6th day creation when Adam and Eve came on the scene.
Does this answer your question? Hope so!
2007-04-21 03:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis, chapter 1 and Genesis, chapter 2 are 2 separate accounts of very much the same thing.
One is general, one in detail.
The Catholic church never changed anything in the Bible from the original.
It appears people kept diaries in those days.
It might be more accurate to say 'annals'.
Genesis 6:9 refers to the history of Noah
Genesis 11:10 refers to the history of Shem.
Genesis 11:27 refers to the history of Terah.
Genesis 25:19 refers to the history of Isaac.
Put them all together and you got the book of Genesis.
2007-04-21 04:50:54 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It;s more perplexing than that. In the first chapter, there is no mention of Adam and Eve at all; just man and woman. It also says that he created the animals and then man and woman. But in chapter two, not only do they suddenly have names, but God creates man, then the animals, then Eve.
You are right. The story makes no sense and is not only self-contradictory but is also contradicted by science. Apologists who claim that evolution is congruent with the bible are also wrong; it is fallacy to insist that men were created before animals and women after.
2007-04-21 03:19:04 · answer #3 · answered by Dan X 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't see what the problem is. In the first case, he says he created Adam and Eve. Then he goes back and fills in more detail about how he created Eve. There must be something I'm not seeing because I've heard people raise this issue before, and I don't see what the problem is.
2007-04-21 03:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
There are/were like six genesis accounts. They fused two together to create the story that they wanted in the modern bible, and didn't realize their mistake, or assumed that with enough conditioning, people could be trained to overlook inconsistencies in the bible. I guess it worked.
2007-04-21 03:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by Enslavementalitheist 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Don't worry about. The bible is full of glaring errors and is metaphorical only.
And mankind wrote it and has translated it so many times that who knows if any truth remains.
Remember that mankind can screw up just about anything good and pure.
2007-04-21 03:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by mike h 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure
Genesis 2 is merely an elaboration of Gen 1.
What's the problem?
If you're trying to understand, nothing in the Bible is difficult. It's when you're trying to find loopholes, errors and contradictions that you'll question every jot and tittle.
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2007-04-21 03:15:33 · answer #7 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I was just reading these accounts. In the first chapter, it is generalization, in the second chapter, more detail is being added.
2007-04-21 03:16:19 · answer #8 · answered by W J 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There were several different stories about the creation in the earliest oral tradition - and when the first people to write these down were faced with that, instead of picking one version, they tried to include them both. In the story of Noah, you also find two different versions of that story.
In fact, in the Book of Genesis, there is clear evidence of at least three different author/editors putting the book together.
2007-04-21 03:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
genesis never happened it was a story created by the hebrews to explain creation to the babylonians in a way they would understand
2007-04-21 03:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by xXBrudu BXx 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋