genesis 1: And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
ill add the rest and my additional comments after
2007-12-31 00:23:51 · 32 answers · asked by Chewyconor 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
genesis 2: The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
What is with that blatent contradiction? the animals are already there, it said so in chapter 1. explain that one!
2007-12-31 00:25:18 · update #1
God created the animals twice. how does that work?
2007-12-31 00:26:28 · update #2
Maybe the chapters arent in order. you make a good point. but i would think the 6 days god created the world in, are in order.
but hey i still hav a problem. god created animals first in chapter 1. then he created animals to help man in chapter 2 (huh? its the other way around)
and i would think chapter 2 normally comes after chapter 1
2007-12-31 00:30:52 · update #3
quote from 'God':
"It is not good for the man to be alone. *I WILL* make a helper suitable for him."
2007-12-31 00:32:31 · update #4
I really dont see ANY point made by EITHER story....wtf? how can they both be true?
ok ok, accepting that they have different authors, it still doesnt explain anything. y make up a load of BS about 6 days and all that when they could have said 'God created everything. nobody was around to see it so we dont know how.'
everyone appreciates honesty
2007-12-31 00:36:41 · update #5
19 Now the LORD God ****HAD**** formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
Had is past tense. This means that the author was simply saying that all of the creatures HAD been made and then he brought them to Adam. How is that contradiction?
2007-12-31 00:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by sunshine 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no contradiction. Genesis 1 spoke of God creating and Genesis 2 provided further details of how man and the other creatures were created.
2007-12-31 01:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chapter 1 shows that God commanded and created the sea / land / air creatures. God gave the priveledge of naming them to Adam. In chapter 2, showing that at the time Adam was instructed to name them, they were already formed, or created. I am sure it was easier for Adam to name an animal he could see rather than one that had not been created yet, don't you think?
And to those who state that Genesis is an allegorical lesson, too simplistic to be true....
Yes, there are some intellectuals that find the story of Adam and Eve naive and simplistic. The story of a talking snake seems comical. And the test with the forbidden fruit seems too simple to mean so much. Aside from the fact that the Bible represents this as truth are there any other reasons to believe the story?
Several years ago in the United States there was a popular television program called "Candid Camera". One program featured a talking mailbox. Now, one might think that modern, first-world educated people would not believe that mailboxes talk and yet this program contradicted that conclusion. The producers arranged to have a carefully wired mailbox talk to lone passers-by who after expressing disbelief finally decided that the impossible had occurred. They formalized that belief by returning the conversation. No, things have not changed. People in our century, even sophisticated ones, still can be fooled by such unusual phenomena. Surreal phenomena arrest attention. That is what the Devil wanted--Eve’s attention--and he obtained it by means of the phenomenal.
When European explorers landed in the New World and planted flags on the soil each of those plantings, however simple the act, had major, substantive significance. Could we imagine, if the world went on the way that it is, that two thousand years from now intellectuals would look back and express disbelief that the simple act of planting a pole with a piece of cloth attached to it at the top could mean so much? Would they argue that this was too infantile and that no mature, adult human would perform such a simple gesture? How could something that simple means so much? Other "simple" human behaviors having a meaning with substance include: saluting within the military, standing up for the elderly and bowing to a monarch. Why would eating a forbidden fruit be less credible for significance? If intelligent humans perform simple behaviors that can mean so much, what is wrong with God decreeing that the simple behavior of eating from a forbidden tree also had far reaching significance? This criticism of Genesis 2 and 3 is unfair and hypocritical.
2007-12-31 00:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by walterprognosticus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See alan b's answer.
What is a "bible head"?
Never heard of that....Is that your way of insulting Christians?
2007-12-31 00:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Humans wrote the Bible, so you will find errors like that in it.
Jesus spoke about the "Word of God" in the Parable of the Sower long before the New Testament documents came along... and I doubt that he was "sowing" those old testament scrolls either.
The "Word" Jesus was talking about is inscribed in the eternal source of all life... or you could say, in the Spirit of God.
This resource will explain how to become familiar with that eternal Spiritual source.
2007-12-31 00:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Maybe you can help me, because I don't understand what you're saying....
I'm not a "Bible head," but since you want my opinion, all it's saying is that He created the animals, then Adam, and then He brought them to Adam to name.
First He made water animals, then flying animals, then land animals, then Man, then He brought all of them to Adam so name.
Personally, I believe in evolution, and I do believe the Bible is filled with contradictions, but I don't see it in this in.
2007-12-31 00:33:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The bible is not written in chronological order. Scripture supports other scripture. Ask God to reveal it to you, you won't be sorry.
2007-12-31 00:33:13 · answer #7 · answered by FROG E 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Myths don't have to make sense!!
2007-12-31 00:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by huffyb 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋
It doesn't matter to the religious ignorant .The whole foundation to the Bible is to believe that it just happened, don't ask questions.It was magic now shut up so we can continue.
2007-12-31 00:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
The animals were already there [he made in chpt 1], but they hadn't been given names yet, so they were named [in chpt 2] smart-@rse! =)
2007-12-31 00:29:16 · answer #10 · answered by Helen 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋