Previous Questions and Answers
How long has man been here?
Do you believe that Genesis 1:26-28, happened at the
same time as Genesis 2:7? I believe Genesis 2:7, happened first. Man became a
living soul, and was already in existence before Genesis 1:26-28 happened, when God
decided to make Man in His image and likeness. Here`s why. Man being made into
the image and likeness of God involved the woman. Without the woman, Man was not
made into God`s image and likeness. As we know, the man was in existence before the
woman. Mankind may have been in existence in the image and likeness of God for about
6000 years, however Man was in existence before this time.
Here is a previous question and answer.
Question:
Is there a contradiction
between the accounts of creation in Genesis chapter one and chapter two? It was
pointed out to me that Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 have different accounts of the creation
(the order anyways). If the Bible is infallible, how is this possible?
Answer
Genesis chapter 1 records
what God made on the specific days of the week. DAY 1 (vss. 1-5) - the heaven and the
earth; light; and day and night. DAY 2 (vss. 6-8) - the firmament or Heaven. DAY 3 (vss.
9-13) - dry land and seas; grass; herbs; and fruit trees. DAY 4 (vss. 14-19) - sun; moon;
and stars. DAY 5 (vss. 20-23) - fish and fowl. DAY 6 (vss. 24-31) - land animals and man.
Chapter 2 begins with Day 7 (vss. 1-3), and God resting.
You will then notice that there is no mention of specific days (like, "the first
day," and "the second day," etc.). Chapter 2, verse 4 starts on a different
path by saying, "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." Notice
here in this chapter that it DOES NOT say, "...in the DAYS (the six days) that the
LORD God made the earth and the heavens," but "in the DAY..." So chapter 2
is not dealing with a day-by-day order of creation, like chapter 1, but with the whole
creation week as a unit together.
So things mentioned in chapter 2 may appear in a different order, because it is not
relating a day-by-day order any longer. Chapter 2 begins to deal with more specific
matters of creation, giving us a little more detail about how God created things. Notice
how short and to the point Genesis 1:27 is: "So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." We may think, by
that verse, that God just spoke both man and woman into existence at the same time, but it
is chapter 2 that gives us more details as to how God did it. We see in Genesis 2:7,
"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." Then in 2:18-23 we read,
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him
an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field,
and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave
names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for
Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
You can thus see how chapter 2 fills in the details as to how God made the man and the
woman. There are no contradictions between chapter 1 and chapter 2. Chapter 1 was written
to show the order and the specific days of creation, and chapter 2 was written to give us
more details of certain matters of creation.
There is no need to fit in more than 6,000 years. Evolution is not true science.
I Timothy 6:20 says, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings, and OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED."
When God first created man, alone, he was made in the image of God. Man did
not need a wife to be made in the image of God, because God is three in one -- not two as
one.
