[Biblemat] Genesis one and two (question/answer)

[Don Martin]

Don Martin sharing question number 45 on this first day of a
new week in our questions work:

Hello Jason,

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You asked:

Gen.1 v27 God created man in his own image; In the image of God he
created him; Male and Female he created them. Then God blessed them and
God told them to be fruitful and multiply. And afterwards in Gen;2 v7 God
created Adam out of the dust of the ground. My question is so he created
male and female in 1 v27 who were they since he created Adam in the next
chapter?

Reply:

Many claim Genesis one and two are so different that they exclude each
other and cannot be reconciled. Some believe that they are so dissimilar in
teaching that they actually contain two different accounts of creation or
that chapter two contains the account of a "recreation" or second creation.
Some do not see the "two different creations" as separated by time but
parallel; hence, the theory of parallel worlds.  I suggest this view is
incorrect.  I urge you to read, "Creation, Genesis One and Two" in
www.bibletruths.net   When on the home page, enter through the door
and click on "Archives and Index" in the directory.  When on the Archives
page,  click on the letter "G."  Here is an excerpt that also further
comments on  your good question:

      "...After a close consideration of these alleged contradictions
between chapter one and two of the Genesis' account of creation, there
are essentially five supposed discrepancies (the following was arranged and
succinctly worded by the scholar Kalisch). I shall now state them and then
examine them. (1). In chapter one, vegetation is immediately produced by
the will of God; in the second "account," its existence is made dependent
on rain and mists; (2) in the first the earth emerges from the waters and,
therefore, contains necessary moisture; in the second it appears dry and
sandy; (3) in the first man and his wife are created together; in the second
the wife is formed later, and from a part of man; (4) in the former man
bears the image of God, and is made ruler of the whole earth; in the latter
his earth-formed body is only animated by the breath of life, and he is
placed in Eden to cultivate and to guard it; (5) in the former the birds and
beasts are created before man; in the latter man before birds and beasts.
These five comparisons constitute the so called insoluble contradictions
between chapters one and two.

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Cordially,
Don Martin