4Pillars said:
Genesis 1:21 tells us that every living creature that moveth was brought forth from the waters on Day 5. This included the sons of God of Gen. 6 who's origin is from the waters.
Genesis 2 tells us of Creatures made from the dust. Some people see this as a contradiction, and falsely assume that God made a boo boo.
The first Living Being made from the dust was man.
Man was made on the 3rd Day before the plants and herbs, right after the mist that watered the whole face of the ground -Gen 2:4-7. This gives mankind Preeminence or First Place among all other Living Creatures.
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that man was made on the third day from. I agree that there are no contradictions in scripture, especially with regards to the first two chapters of Genesis, but there is no need to go through all of these contortions to see that the two chapters agree. It just takes a closer look at the text to see what it is actually saying. Man is clearly created after the plants and animals. This is clearly what is stated in both chapters In chapter one humanity is created after the fifth day is mentioned and before the sixth day is mentioned. In chapter two man is also clearly created after the plant life, the reason is given as to why the seeds weren't planted yet, but they were already created prior to man's creation; they just weren't planted in the earth. This actually fits kinda well with the whole idea that evolution couldn't have happened on earth in such a short time so it had to come from somewhere else. I think it's called the seed theory or something like that; seeds from aliens or a meteor etc.
Below is my understanding of
Gen 2:4 which is obviously speaking of the
THIRD Day, the
SAME Day Adam's Earth and additional HeavenS/firmaments were made including the beginning of the present Universe and also the
THIRD Heaven of
ll Cor 12:2.
Gen 2:4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
This verse is speaking of the
THIRD Day when LORD God (YHWH/Jesus) made the first Earth. This was on the
THIRD Day according to
Gen 1:10 "And God called the dry land Earth;"
Notice the capitalization of the word Earth. On the
3rd Day when Jesus made the first Earth, He also made additional Heavens. He made the present heavens and Earth and He also made the
THIRD Heaven where Christians will live for Eternity when the present world is burned.
ll Peter 3:10. The 3rd Heaven is also called the New Heaven and New Earth in
Rev. 21:1.
Continuing to the next verse, the
THIRD Day is confirmed for the first time.
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
The plants
GREW on the
THIRD Day.
Gen 1:12 What else happened on this
THIRD Day after the Earth was made but
BEFORE the plants, herbs and rain, is very important to
ALL Humans (descendants of Adam).
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.
These verses are identifying the
THIRD Day when Adam was made from the dust of the ground by the Hands of Jesus. Adam is the first Human and the
ONLY living creature made on this
3rd Day.
This gives Humans First place in Heaven, as God's Children, for Humans will have dominion or rule over
every other living creature.
Gen 1:28
Ancient theologians failed to properly identify this Day with it's importance. What these verses show is that it is
IMPOSSIBLE that Humans could have evolved from
ANY other living creature or some aliens as you call it... since Adam, the first Human, was made
BEFORE any other creature.
Again... Adam was "
formed"
or shaped, as a Potter molds the Clay, o
n the 3rd Day AFTER Adam's Earth was made but
BEFORE the plants GREW. Gen 2:4-7
He was surrounded with Shekinah Glory and live with Jesus/YHWH as our Lord' meet during the actual physical Making of our Worlds... before Adam sinned and lost his glory on the 6th Day together with Eve.
Adam was born again or "
CREATED spiritually in God's Image" on the 6th Day at the SAME time Eve was "created in God's Image". Gen 1:27 AND Gen 5:1-3
T
he assertion I posted on this thread says "Made" since Adam was "Made" or formed FIRST becoming a natural living soul and SINNED..... He later was forgiven and redeemed by the Triune of God upon calling the name of the Lord (Gen.4:26)... and by being born again or created Spiritually in the image and likeness of God.. Gen 1:26-27; 5:1-3.
IOW, the False Theory of Evolution is Un-Scriptural, incomplete, and totally Un-True. Humans did
NOT evolve from the common ancestor of Apes as Evolutionists Falsely teach.
Continuing with what happened
AFTER Adam was made on the 3rd Day before the plants, Scripture again
CONFIRMS that it is speaking of the
THIRD Day.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Notice the above verse confirms
AGAIN the
THIRD Day when the Trees
GREW according to:
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after His kind,(Jesus) and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after His kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the THIRD day.
Your idea that
Gen 2:4-7 does
NOT speak of the
THIRD Day is refuted
Scripturally.
God Bless