Creation Account(s)?

Question

What is the proper interpretation for the seperate Creation Accounts in Genesis?

Answer 1

Well, considering the fact that chapters and verses were not added until later, Genesis 1 and 2 should not be read separately.

Genesis 1 deals with the creation in general. Genesis 2 is more specific.

Answer 2

Here's a link that has 7 different ways to interpret Genesis 1. As to the account in Genesis 2, that account is like a close in focus of God's dealing with mankind in the creation.

http://www.christianity.co.nz/science7.htm

Answer 3

Generally, from what I have read, the reason for the differant accounts is that they were recorded at different periods. The religious beliefs had changed over time and this is reflected in Genesis.

Answer 4

You mean how creation is broken into seperate segments such as first came light, next came the heavens and the earth and so forth. It is a chronolgical view of how God made the earth. It took God six days (I don't know what kind of time system he uses. For all we know one of his days could be a million years to us). But anyway each day is what he made. The fifth day was all plants and animals, the sixth day was man, and on the 7th day he rested.

Answer 5

Really hard to say. I think there are probably as many answers as there are people who read the Bible.

The best one I've heard, and had explained to me (took 15 pages) was that they are 2 looks at the same event. The first from God's point of view, the second from Man's point of view.

That's one of those "I'll find out when I get to heaven" questions. =))

Answer 6

There is none because the accounts are not true. Jesus gave us the accurate account in The Apocryphon of John. Wake up, believe Jesus, not Moses.

Answer 7

In the first part man is the high point in the second part it moves directly into the fall of man.

Answer 8

The Word of God is the same throughout all translations, people may change the words to help better understand it, but it remains the same.