Why do some claim that Adam and Eve were the first people?

Question

I have known various people to claim that Adam and Eve were the first people on this earth, but the Bible says otherwise...

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them...

(and it continues on to vs.31)..
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day..

(then later on) in Gen 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made..

Now here is the kicker!
In Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God later names him "Adam" in Gen 2:19.

This shows that there was man created on the 6th day, then God rested on the 7th, then created Adam after the rest.

I am not trying to get into a heated debate, I just want to get some feedback

Answer 1

If you get into reading the Bible well, you will see that each chapter expands on the chapter before. It may mention making man in the 1st. but then He expounds on it in the 2nd.
I hope that you understand what I'm saying, this goes on throughout the Bible, verse by verse, here alittle, there alittle

Answer 2

The book of Genesis contains several sections that begin with the phrase which we sometimes render, "These are the generations of..." The word "generations" is the Hebrew toledot and has the connotation of a family history or succession. Toledot are given for Adam's line (5:1-6:8), Noah (6:9-9:29), Noah's sons (10:1-11:9), Shem (11:10-26), Terah and Abram (11:27-25:11), and so on -- there are nearly a dozen recurrences of the toledot introduction and method, and one of these, interestingly enough, is Genesis 2:4-4:6. What does this mean? It means that G2 is not actually a creation account as such, but a "family history" of the first men in creation [Mat.Gen126, 12ff]. It is therefore a point to begin our argument by noting that anyone who reads G2 as a rehash of the creation accounted in G1 is missing the boat from the start. It is quite unlikely, given the parallel toledot structure, that the author of Genesis is repeating himself (although we do have examples of dual creation accounts -- the former told generally, the latter told more specifically -- in Sumerian and Babylonian literature). Rather, the indication would be that G2 is of an entirely different genre and approach than G1, and that any supposed contradiction between them needs to be understood in that light.

Answer 3

What you are looking at is a writing device used hundreds of times in the Bible, and at least 16 other times just in the book of Genesis. It is a device in which you tell a story quickly, and then go back and repeat the story in detail.

You will see the same thing used in any newspaper story you read. The first paragraph will give you the highlights of the story, then the following paragraphs repeat the story in detail from the most to least important facts.

Genesis 1:28 gives the overview of creation - that God made man and woman in his image and gave them dominion. In Genesis 2 it retells the story in greater detail. It tells how God created man (forming his body from the earth, and breathing into it his own life), it tells how he gave them dominion (through the naming of the animals) and how man came to be male and female (through the creation of Eve from a cell of Adam's).

So Genesis 2 simple gives greater details of the events of Genesis 1. It expands the 5 verse of chapter one into the 25 verses of chapter 2.

In the Bible, you can usually tell when it is going to "retell" an event in greater detail. It will begin the telling with a "genealogy", which you will find in Genesis 2:4.

Answer 4

I'll have to read that over, but I believe what happen is on the 6th day God did create man and that man was Adam. Remember cause he placed Adam to watch over the animals etc and live in the guardian. but he saw that Adam still felt lonely so he put Adam to sleep , took a rib from him and made Eve. It was just them in the beginning Adam and Eve. At least that first week. How other peopel came to exist after that is anyone's guess. Some things God does not explain but desires you believe him by faith.
But here is the real kicker.... If you read your bible it was not God that made man but Jesus! God placed Jesus in charge of making man on earth and the earth itself. This was one of the reasons why Satan got upset, because he wanted to take part is making man and the earth and he also wanted to be as God. People always try to place god first and God is the father, but we really don't have contact with him. It's been Jesus all along. It was Jesus who spoke to moses and saved the Hebrew children. And it was Jesus who took responsibility to come to earth as a man and fix things if anything went wrong. Without Jesus our prayers would not even be heard by God. Jesus mediates on our behalf like a defense attorney to God.

Answer 5

Good for you,happy to see someone knows how to read. I
have been saying this for years" very clear"also when Cain went to nod,God put a protective mark on Him so no one would harm Him,God would not put on the mark if no one else was there.Note also after God forms Adam from the dust of the ground,it is the first time God did not say,"IT WAS GOOD "

Answer 6

It was not uncommon in ancient Hebrew literature for the author to go into further detail about or to expound upon something that was previously discussed, such as is the case in these passages. Therefore, it is not necessarily a chronological account (i.e. forming man after the rest), but rather fleshing out what was already stated previously. This also happens in Genesis 1:1 and following. It starts with, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" and expounds upon this creation further in later verses.

Answer 7

God tells you in Genesis 1 that he created man and woman, now he goes into Genesis 2 to tell you how he created them.

Answer 8

I believe the 2nd chapter of Genesis was the 'detailed' part of the 6th day of creation. If you read the rest of chapter 2, you will notice that it is similar as to how the 6th day ended. You may want to check the whole of the chapters.

Answer 9

You will never get it right because the account of creation given to us by Moses in Genesis is incorrect. Don't believe me? fine. Will you believe Jesus? He gave us the correct account in The Apocryphon of John. Be smart, believe Jesus, not Moses.

Answer 10

You have to look at it as in the first part the writer is telling you the general idea of what happen and then goes on into more detail of what happen..

Like:: when i got older and had a child, she looks very much like me. When I had my daughter lisa she has brown hair and blue eyes.

How many children do I have. . ?

Answer 11

well who is that man then?
there was only adam and God breathed unto him
he made a man from the soil which had no life but later breathed
you got it