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To: Mr. Silverback
Oh...well, cite some inconsistencies for me.

God (Genesis 2) created animals after creating Adam.

18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19: 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.

20: 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.

170 posted on 12/09/2008 5:15:13 PM PST by E=MC2
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To: E=MC2

> God created animals after creating Adam. (Genesis 2)

You obviously are ignorant of the subject matter: the Word of God.

31 ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 ¶ Thus 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.
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.

Here God had already finished the sequential description of what was made back in chapter 1. Why else would he rest from all his work which he had made? Now we are in chapter 2. He describes ~how~ the plants were inside the ground. (...before they grew...Verse 5). This is descriptive of HOW he made things, not in which *sequence* he made them. So goes the rest of the chapter...

19 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.

Which words in verse 19, in which describes HOW he formed them, i.e. them being formed out of the ground (and that he brought them to Adam), indicate that God stipulates the animals were formed /after/ Adam?

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?


222 posted on 12/09/2008 6:53:20 PM PST by mbj
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To: E=MC2

1. The Genesis accounts are not in conflict. Verses 1:1 through 2:3 are an overview and 2:4-25 is more detail about th creation of Man.

2. There’s nothing about verse 19 that requires that the forming of those beasts had to happen after Adam was created. There is no inconsistency here.


259 posted on 12/09/2008 9:10:16 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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