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Do ask the Lord Jesus Christ for wisdom in understanding His words in the 2 accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis.
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
That is the starting topic wherein the following verses is explaining how that had happened. So in another words, in verse 2, the heavens and the earth had not been created yet but is about to. Proof of that is how the heavens were created so that the lights from the heavens would govern the earth that fourth day in creation week.
Light was created that first day and there was evening and morning that day; 24 hour day.
Second day of creation, the upper atmosphere and the water planet was created.
Third day, the one land continent appeared with full grown tress and plants bearing fruits and seeds.
The fourth day, the heavens were created so that the lights would govern the evening and the morning of each day for the earth.
And so forth. Scripture originally was not divided up by number of chapters nor numbered verses, and so I wish to point out that the topic of Genesis 1:1 wasn't finished until Genesis 2:3.
Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 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. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
So that is really the end of the topic of the first account of creation that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth as it ended as such in Genesis 2:1.
The second account of creation is really a repeat in detail of what had happened on the sixth day of creation, because the next topic was about the origin of the generations of mankind. If you read the next verses after Genesis 2:3, we may see that other topic beginning.
Genesis 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, 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.
Man was not created yet to till the ground. This is another topic regarding the specific origin of mankind on the sixth day of creation.
So there is no conflict between the 2 accounts of creation when the second account is just a rehash of the event in detail of the creation of man; hence Adam and Eve, on the sixth day.
The first account was about God creating the heavens and the earth.
The second account is a more detailed account of the creation of man & woman and the first marriage on the sixth day to inform the readers where all of mankind had come from.
After the fall of mankind, Eve got her name for a sole and specific reason.
Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
That means there were no other human beings on the planet that were not related to Adam and Eve.
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
That is the starting topic wherein the following verses is explaining how that had happened. So in another words, in verse 2, the heavens and the earth had not been created yet but is about to. Proof of that is how the heavens were created so that the lights from the heavens would govern the earth that fourth day in creation week.
Light was created that first day and there was evening and morning that day; 24 hour day.
Second day of creation, the upper atmosphere and the water planet was created.
Third day, the one land continent appeared with full grown tress and plants bearing fruits and seeds.
The fourth day, the heavens were created so that the lights would govern the evening and the morning of each day for the earth.
And so forth. Scripture originally was not divided up by number of chapters nor numbered verses, and so I wish to point out that the topic of Genesis 1:1 wasn't finished until Genesis 2:3.
Genesis 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 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. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
So that is really the end of the topic of the first account of creation that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth as it ended as such in Genesis 2:1.
The second account of creation is really a repeat in detail of what had happened on the sixth day of creation, because the next topic was about the origin of the generations of mankind. If you read the next verses after Genesis 2:3, we may see that other topic beginning.
Genesis 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, 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.
Man was not created yet to till the ground. This is another topic regarding the specific origin of mankind on the sixth day of creation.
So there is no conflict between the 2 accounts of creation when the second account is just a rehash of the event in detail of the creation of man; hence Adam and Eve, on the sixth day.
The first account was about God creating the heavens and the earth.
The second account is a more detailed account of the creation of man & woman and the first marriage on the sixth day to inform the readers where all of mankind had come from.
After the fall of mankind, Eve got her name for a sole and specific reason.
Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
That means there were no other human beings on the planet that were not related to Adam and Eve.
