Genesis question?

Question

Who was created first? animals or humans?
1:25-27 suggests animals while
2:18-19 suggests man.

Answer 1

please explain to me how humans are NOT animals.


"biologically, there is absolutely nothing unique about humans"

Answer 2

Between the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve, the KJV/AV Bible says (Genesis 2:19) ‘out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air’. On the surface, this seems to say that the land beasts and birds were created between Adam and Eve.

However, Jewish scholars apparently did not recognize any such conflict with the account in chapter 1, where Adam and Eve were both created after the beasts and birds (Genesis 1:23–25). Why is this? Because in Hebrew the precise tense of a verb is determined by the context. It is clear from chapter 1 that the beasts and birds were created before Adam, so Jewish scholars would have understood the verb ‘formed’ in Genesis 2:19 to mean ‘had formed’ or ‘having formed’. If we translate verse 19 as follows (as one widely used translation1 does), ‘Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field …’, the apparent disagreement with Genesis 1 disappears completely.

The question also stems from the wrong assumption that the second chapter of Genesis is just a different account of creation to that in chapter 1. It should be evident that chapter 2 is not just ‘another’ account of creation because chapter 2 says nothing about the creation of the heavens and the earth, the atmosphere, the seas, the land, the sun, the stars, the moon, the sea creatures, etc. Chapter 2 mentions only things directly relevant to the creation of Adam and Eve and their life in the garden God prepared specially for them. Chapter 1 may be understood as creation from God’s perspective; it is ‘the big picture’, an overview of the whole. Chapter 2 views the more important aspects from man’s perspective.

Answer 3

Animals clearly came first, but on the same day. Chapter 2 is merely a more specific description of what happened in Genesis 1:26-31. Think of Genesis 2 as a magnifying glass on Genesis 1:26-31, or Genesis 1:26-31 as the Cliff-Notes on Genesis 2. This is a Hebrew literary practice that occurs throughout the Bible. Repeating a story with more details following a summary helps a person who is listening to remember things better. We do the same thing when we use a Table of Contents in a book to get an idea of or remind ourselves of what the book contains.

Answer 4

Animals. Man is mentioned first in 2:18-19 because that's who the author wants to focus the section on. It's a literary convention.

Answer 5

Animals

Answer 6

Genesis one is a synopsis of the entire creation in order that it happened. Animals were created before humans, but on the same day (day 6).
Genesis two is a more detailed account of that day - with the emphasis on the creation of Adam and the garden of God, where they were placed. After the garden is established, the scripture says that the animals were brought to Adam (not created again) so that he could find a suitable helper for himself. None were found of course, so God created Eve from Adams rib.

blessings :)

Answer 7

Animals were created first.
Gen. 2:18-19 talks about Adam needing a companion. Verse 19 just restates that God had previously created all the beasts but hadn't named them. So God sends them to Adam to name and to see which would be the suitable helper.

Answer 8

Animals. The phrase in Genesis 2:19 "And out of the ground the LORD God formed..." is similar to the previous phrase in Genesis 2:9, "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow...", in that they both explain how their preceding verse came about. The events of those explanations need not occur immediately after one another, since their order is enough to understand how their objects were created.

Answer 9

Mosses wrote it out in the wilderness thousands of years later and it was handed down by word of mouth.
so the first 5 books of the bible go back and forth in no particular order. But the way it says is :
1. water
2 vegetation
3 fish
4 reptiles
5 birds
6 small land animals
7 wild animals
8 domestic animals.
9 man
10 Woman
I remember reading it some where but Sheep is not able to survive with out man and some other very delicate animals.
so they were just before man.

Answer 10

Oh for goodness sakes. When God directed that the Bible be written one would have to assume that He not only had a sense of humor, but was also assuming that by the time man started trying to understand it he would have evolved into a creature possessed of a large amount of common sense. Yepper, even God seems to have fallen into that old trap "assume"!! But seriously, is it not obvious, from reading Genesis and it's two stories of creation that God was trying to lay a foundation which told us in no uncertain terms that some things written herein would be allegorical and mystifying, maybe even mind-bending, but definitely not to be taken as strictly literal? And besides, just because God did something first and something second and so on, does it necessarily follow that that order was meant to represent what was most important. Umm, No. Nope! God's pretty smart, so I can easily believe that if He wanted us to go, wow, that must be the most important creature ever, He would have just said "I created this and it will be the most important thing to Me that I ever create".

Answer 11

....And to add to this confusion, Genesis also says in verse 1:28 that God told Adam and Eve to "replenish" the earth. "Replenish" means that there was something before that is no longer there!!!! H-m-m-m-m....

Here it is:

Gen 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
KJV

I have accepted that Genesis obviously doesn't tell us everything. It only tells us what God wants us to know....what He feels is important. He simply wants us to know how we fell out of fellowship with Him and how He is giving us all another chance to restore that fellowship by trusting His Word, which we failed to do in the garden of Eden.